Crown Equipment, leading provider of safe, efficient, ergonomic and award-winning lift trucks, invests in Six Sigma and enjoys savings.
The company is able to realize savings of some $1.5 million, and according to its Mark DeGrandchamp, director of quality and Lean/Six Sigma, the savings is increasing.
Crown’s Six Sigma journey began in 2005, and got ASQ to train its people. Three years later, DeGrandchamp has this to say about Six Sigma and his company:
“While we looked for lean initiatives to drive efficiency improvements, we saw Six Sigma very much as a way of cutting the costs of nonconformance. The majority of the savings came from generating improvements in scrap, waste, and rework.â€Â
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Six Sigma payoff: Lift-truck maker raises $1.5-million savings from green-belt, black-belt programs
