It has been a while since I featured here the statistics component of Six Sigma. And thanks to an article on Scientific Computing for featuring such information.
Six Sigma is, at heart, a business philosophy that seeks to deliver products and services with a minimum of defects. The cost savings and increase in business efficiencies have resulted in an alignment between the business needs and the scientific community, which is bridged by the statistical world. Advances in computing power and the ready availability of computer applications such as JMP and Minitab have put the needed computing tools in the hands of the average scientist and engineer.
