Posted by:
meikah | 20 January 2008 | 9:33 pm
Time and again, we hear companies saying that Six Sigma works for them. Other companies however do not and cannot claim benefits from their Six Sigma deployments.
If you throw these issues to quality practitioners, even Six Sigma proponents, they would say that the Six Sigma of Six Sigma depends on many factors. It’s true.
However, just in case you really think Six Sigma can add value to your company, let me share with you 10 reasons why you need a Six Sigma certification.
- To save money - These programs are designed to reduce the amount of waste that is created when you are manufacturing your products. What these processes will do is look at you entire manufacturing process, one step at a time and see where you can make any changes or improvements that will increase your productivity. These programs increase your productivity because they get rid of waste and poor quality, which means you are producing more quality products and you are not wasting time or energy on production costs.
- To make quality your companies priority – make your products and services worth your customers’ money, and that your products add value to your customers’ organization.
- To reduce operational costs – focuse on reducing the number of defects that are produced, reducing the cycle time, and cost savings.
- To make your manufacturing plant more efficient and help improve safety, meaning less accidents will occur at your manufacturing plant.
- To train everybody in the company from upper management on down – everybody in the company is on the same page and being on the same page ensures that everybody is doing things the same way.
- To teach people how to problem solve – with the training mentioned in #5, everyone in the organization is going to learn how to approach a variety of situations and figure out how to solve the problems they face.
- To increase your floor space – you will be more organized, which means there will be less clutter in places so you can actually see what is going on. This makes sense because if you can’t see what is going on there is no way to figure out what needs to get improved.
- To take a narrower focus on what needs to be improved, rather than a broad focuses – this helps boost employee morale and show people that it is going to work.
- To take a look at one section at a time and to actually look at your quality standards to see if they need to be improved
- To focus on cost cutting measures that can reduce the value and quality – basically six sigma focuses on getting rid of costs that have no value to the customer.
Source:
BusinessKnowledgeSource.com, a featured link of Six Sigma Zone
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