Wordless Wednesday: Go Green!
Posted by: meikah | 28 November 2007 | 8:16 pm
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Neville Clarke Offers Six Sigma and Lean Manufacturing Training Courses
Posted by: meikah | 12 August 2007 | 8:03 pm
Neville Clarke, the consultancy arm of PERA in Asia, has lined up Six Sigma and Lean Manufacturing Training Courses. If you’re from the Philippines or even Asia, you may want to attend these trainings.
Six Sigma Executive Workshop, Oct 10
Six Sigma Champion, Oct 11-12
Six Sigma Certified Green Belt (10 days):
- Phase 1, Sept 10-14
- Phase 2, Oct 15-19
Six Sigma Certified Black Belt:
- Phase 1, Sept 24-28
- Phase 2, Oct 22-26
- Phase 3, Nov. 19-23
- Phase 4, Dec 10-14
Six Sima Certified Yellow Belt, Sep 17-20
Lean Thinking, Nov 14
Lean Office, Oct 19
Certified Lean Associate, Aug 15-17, 21
Certified Lean Expert:
- Phase 1, Sept 24-27
- Phase 2, Oct 22-23
- Phase 3, Nov 22-23
- Phase 4, Dec 17
Value Stream Mapping, Nov 15
Total Productive Maintenance, Nov 16
Theory of Constraints, Sept 10-11For more info, contact Neville Clarke.
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Innovation of the Week: Sing to computer to download a song
Posted by: meikah | 27 July 2007 | 9:46 pm
Did you ever experience trying to search a song, which title you forgot?
Well, modern technology may have the answer to your dilemma. There is an ongoing research which will let you search a song by singing it to your computer.
Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) reports:
Australian computer scientist Dr Sandra Uitdenbogerd from RMIT University says retrieving music by singing will be possible with one of the next generation of search programs.
Uitdenbogerd says one form of retrieving audio by singing will involve users calling up a specific website then singing a tune or lyrics into a computer microphone to submit their query.
The computer will then search the website’s database to retrieve a menu of digital files, which the user can then choose from to download.
Filed under: General, Software/Technology, Innovation Update
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Where is Six Sigma?
Posted by: meikah | 23 July 2007 | 8:58 pm
The New York Times Your Money section features how GE is going through some rough times financially. The company has not been able to get their stocks moving to a significant high. It even had to write off $3 billion in reinsurance, sell stuff, buy things, and the earnings growth rate has not reached the targeted 15 percent.
GE is one of the big companies that has been associated with Six Sigma. For years, it has boasted of savings and benefits brought about by its Six Sigma strategy. Other companies even look up to GE. But with what’s happening at the company right now, I’m sure it has raised a lot of questions such as:
- Where does Six Sigma figure in all this?
- At what point did Six Sigma fail the company? Or did it?
- Can Six Sigma help improve GE’s bottomline?
- Can Six Sigma save GE?
- To be successful in all aspects of business, does a company need more than Six Sigma methods?
Does anyone have the answers?
*Photo from the NYTimes article
Filed under: General, Six Sigma Organizations, Finance, Sustainable Business, GE, GE Money
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Six Sigma Reference Feature: Using Six Sigma in Safety Metrics
Posted by: meikah | 16 July 2007 | 6:48 pm
There’s a line that goes, “The way to be safe is never to feel secure.”
Manufacturing plants know this too well. That is why they schedule maintenance check on their equipment a regular basis. More importantly they set up safety measures for their workers. All these because accidents can be costly.
Here’s a good reference on how you can use Six Sigma in Safety Metrics. It is the quality review process at Motorola.
In order to deliver excellence in safety performance, the safety professional must fully integrate with the business. Working in a silo as a service organization with independent initiatives will never provide for your company the outcomes desired. The safety function must prove to be value-added to the business and work toward a world class safety culture that helps to place the business at a distinct advantage among its competitors. The best way to do this is through those systems already in place that the managers monitor that constantly review quality, cycle time and manufacturing costs.
Source:
Adams Six Sigma
*Photo from MorgueFile
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Six Sigma Reference Feature: International Journal of Six Sigma and Competitive Advantage (IJSSCA)
Posted by: meikah | 29 May 2007 | 8:56 pm
I used to visit Inderscience Publishers regularly, but because I’ve been busy the past months, it was only today that I visited the site again. Good thing, I did for I saw there a call for papers for an interesting journal.Published quarterly, the International Journal of Six Sigma and Competitive Advantage (IJSSCA), will publish non-published papers on the following subjects:
- Six Sigma for new product development processes (Design for Six Sigma)
- Six Sigma and its link to other quality improvement initiatives
- Six Sigma and its link to quality engineering issues
- Integration of lean production and Six Sigma strategies
- Case studies of Six Sigma (manufacturing/service/transactional processes)
- Tools and techniques of Six Sigma and design for Six Sigma
- Project selection in Six Sigma
- Critical success factors of Six Sigma and design for Six Sigma
- Performance measurement for Six Sigma and design for Six Sigma
- Six Sigma and its role in IT
- Customer focused Six Sigma
- Problem solving using Six Sigma methodology
- Strategic aspects of Six Sigma
- Role of leadership in Six Sigma
- Six Sigma for SMEs
- Six Sigma in supply chain management
- Six Sigma and lean thinking
- Best practice of Six Sigma
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Six Sigma News Round-up
Posted by: meikah | 21 March 2007 | 2:35 am
Here’s another round of Six Sigma News as talked about by fellow Six Sigma bloggers.
Let me start with iSixSigma Blogosphere. Michael Cyger is giving a teaser on the Six Sigma story of Lonmin. The whole story will be featured on the May/June issue of iSixSigma Magazine. Being a producer of platinum group metals and involved in mining, Lonin’s story will be an interesting one.
News at The Sixth Sigma is about KXEN, a data mining vendor, that adopts Six Sigma DMAIC as its standard implementation methodology for inegrating analytics into corporate business processes.
Ron Pereira of Lean Six Sigma Academy has an interesting take on DOE. He is demystifying the monstrous concept of DOE. You should read it.
Filed under: General, Tools/Toolkits, Data, Six Sigma References, iSixSigma
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Innovation of the Week: F35 Warplane
Posted by: meikah | 26 January 2007 | 12:33 am
You may have noticed some changes on this blog, aside from the layout of course. Every day, I have a feature, which makes your reading more varied yet informative.
Today, I’m launching another feature that I title, Innovation of the Week. After all, Six Sigma is the formula for breakthrough innovations. So, toward the end of the week (Thursday or Friday), I will share with you innovation news.
For this week, I’m sharing with you a U.S. fighter plane that will built in such a way that no other American fighter plane, or any other fighter plane for that matter, has been since WWII. This warplane is called F35.
What’s unique about this plane is that it will be assembled more like a car: on a moving line in a process that the Pentagon hopes will dramatically cut costs and speed production—much like achieving Lean and Six Sigma.
The article on LA Times.com describes F35 as:
The F-35 would be the only fighter to enter production in the next decade, and could even be the last piloted warplane aircraft bought by a U.S. military that is shifting to robotic planes and other means of delivering weapons to their targets.
The three basic variants of the F-35, also known as the Joint Strike Fighter, are intended to replace Air Force F-16s, Navy F/A-18s and Marine Corps AV-8Bs.
Is this going to be the same way for ships as well?
If you have innovation news or stories—much better if driven by Six Sigma or initiated by Six Sigma companies—that you would like to share, please email at ma.merdekah[at]gmail[dot]com.
Source: LATimes.com, “A fighter on the line”
Shout out: Thanks to Renee, my colleague, who designed the logo for this feature. 
Filed under: General, Manufacturing, Military, Innovation Update
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Lean Six Sigma Lessons at the 2nd Sakaal Six Sigma Excellence Awards 2006
Posted by: meikah | 17 October 2006 | 8:56 pm
The recently concluded 2nd Sakaal Six Sigma Excellence Awards 2006 had a unique setup, from which we can learn a lesson or two.
The sponsoring group, Symbiosis Center for Management and Human Resource Development (SCMHRD), the number 1 B-school in India, took a bold stand in not declaring winners in every category. This is because SCMHRD believes in awarding efforts towards achieving excellence.
The three speakers of the event had this to say.
Mr. Robinson, the Chief Guest, ascribed the phenomenal turnaround of Timken India Limited since 1995, to the institutionalizing of Lean Six Sigma initiatives in the organization. He believes that providing a means to measure the financial impact of change initiatives is the single most important contribution that Six Sigma can impart to businesses.
Dr. S.B. Majumdar and Ms. Vidya Yervadekar reiterated about the importance of the academia in inculcating a spirit of innovation and continual improvement.
Lessons learned:
- The focus or dedication we put into the (Lean) Six Sigma project is significant.
- We must be able to measure the financial effect of Six Sigma on the organizations’ transformation.
- We must make Six Sigma the way of life for the organization.
- Training, or schooling, is important because it inspires the culture of innovation and continuous improvement.
Any other lesson you might want to add to the list?
*Photo credit: MorgueFile.com
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Even the fashion industry is changing, improving…
Posted by: meikah | 30 August 2006 | 10:41 pm
Lately there has been a growing number of men who shop and are concerned about how they look. They are the metrosexuals, and in this age of metrosexuals, mission shopping—know what I want, know where to get it—was out. A visit to Barneys or Nordstrom became an indulgence in style.
Read about it on Global Business Watch.
