Lean Manufacturing focuses on cutting down processes to eliminate wastes, and as a consequence, speeds up processes. Six Sigma, for its part, provides the necessary tools to eliminate wastes to please customers. When combined, Lean and Six Sigma, you will have a powerful methodology.
Going farther in Lean Six Sigma, BusinessKnowledgeSource.com outlines some Lean Six Sigma “laws,” which you can use to efficiently reduce waste while remaining up to speed:
- The Law of the Market
- The Law of Flexibility
- The Law of Focus
- The Law of Velocity
- The Law of Complexity and Cost: a product or service that is very complex adds more non-value, higher costs, and more Work-In-Progress (WIP) than processes that are slow or of poor quality. In other words, the complexity of something is more expensive to the organization than something that is lower quality or produced in a lower speed.
Source:
BusinessKnowledgeSource.com, “Six Sigma Laws – The Law of Complexity and Cost” with a link provided by Six Sigma Zone
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hi great new lay-out! can you do an article on the laws of complexity and cost?
These “laws” are from a book called, “The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing”. The Law of Focus says that “the most powerful concept in marketing is owning a word in the prospect’s mind.” The lesson here for the Six Sigma practitioner is to ensure that in your company Six Sigma is boiled down to just one idea in peoples minds. If you can teach your employees to associate your Six Sigma with process improvement, your continuous improvement process will run much smoother.
Rob
Reden, yes, look out for my succeeding posts on law of complexity and cost.
Robert, good example, thanks! If you have more ideas on the other laws, share it here.
[…] When I featured the five laws of Lean, Reden, a colleague, requested that I do one more post on the fifth law, which is the law of complexity and cost. This made me do some more research on the subject to back my own understanding. During my research, I came across the five laws of Lean Sigma again and this time with the other four laws being defined. Thus, I posted Laws of Lean Six Sigma defined. […]