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6 steps for six-sigma success
Discover: recognize the need for Six Sigma and explore its potential impact on the company. Decide: senior management approves the Six
Top 3 six-sigma critical success factors
Senior Management Commitment Implementation of Six Sigma represents a long term commitment. The success of Six
Six-sigma is a marketing ploy
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Summary of the six-sigma CONTROL stage
The Control phase aims to establish standard measures to maintain performance and to correct problems as needed, including problems with the measurement system. This includes: validate measurement systems; verify process long-term capability; implement process control with control plan to ensure
Summary of the six-sigma IMPROVE stage
The Improve phase focuses on developing ideas to remove root causes of variation, testing and standardizing those solutions. This involves: identify ways to remove causes of variation; verify critical Inputs; discover relationships between variables; establish operating tolerances which are the
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Summary of the six-sigma ANALYZE stage
In the Analyze phase, the measurements collected in the Measure phase are analyzed so that hypotheses about the root causes of variations in the measurements can be generated and the hypothesis subsequently validated. It is at this stage that practical business problems are turned into statistical
Summary of the six-sigma MEASURE stage
The purpose of the Measure phase is to fully understand the current performance by identifying how to best measure current performance and to start measuring it. The measurements used should be useful and relevant to identifying and measuring the source of variation. This phase includes: identify the
