Dow Chemicals has long been a Six Sigma advocate—from improving its operations to getting its VOC, and even when embarking on innovation.
The latest news has it that Dow is again applying Six Sigma to determine which RFID projects to tackle in Generation 1. Dow’s Six Sigma steps included:
- Listening to the “Voice of the Customer†by educating 100 leading business leaders within Dow about active and passive RFID and GPS and then listening to how these technologies might apply to their businesses.
- Dow put together a list of 450 ideas, came up with a list 50 prioritized project areas, and then culled this down to the 10 projects that would be implemented in Generation 1, a time period covering 2006 to 2008.
