Vought Places Second in the Best Places to Work for Six Sigma Professionals
Posted by: meikah | 29 January 2009 | 8:57 pm
In the recently concluded iSixSigma’s Top 10 Best Places to Work for Six Sigma Professionals, Vought Aircraft Industries ranked second.
This is Vought’s Lean Six Sigma journey in a nutshell:
In just two years, 209 Vought employees have completed the Six Sigma green belt training, with 77 receiving certification. Twenty-three employees went on to become black belts. Projected savings of all black and green belt projects combined exceeds $25 million.
Vought has a long history of applying Lean strategies to its operations. The focus of Lean is to improve the flow and velocity in everything a company does by systematically eliminating waste. The focus of Six Sigma is to improve business by reducing process variation through the use of statistical methods. “These two complementary improvement methodologies, working together, establish the main elements of our Vought Operating System (VOS),” shared Ruben Coronado, Vought’s Six Sigma MBB.
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iSixSigma Live! Announces the Winners
Posted by: meikah | 19 January 2009 | 11:34 pm
Winners: Largest-Breakthrough Improvement Projects
* Environment – Bell Helicopter, Textron Inc. for “Compressed Air Savings Headstart (CASH)â€
* Supply chain – General Dynamics for “Submarine Material Receipt Inspectionâ€
* Transactional – North Shore-LIJ Health System for “Increasing CT capacity in a Tertiary Hospitalâ€
* Manufacturing – Xerox Corp. for “Photoreceptor Belt Tensioning Systemâ€
* Customer service – Sutherland Global Services for “Improving Customer Satisfactionâ€
* Solving the unsolvable – Shuuro Technologies for “Improving Revenue from Salesâ€
* Innovation – Delphi Corp. for “Joint Design for Electronics Cooling Heat Exchangersâ€Most Successful Lean Six Sigma Start-up – NewPage Corp.
Congratulations!
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iSixSigma Names Finalists for Most Successful Lean Six Sigma Projects
Posted by: meikah | 26 November 2008 | 10:21 pm
Michael Cyger, founder of iSixSigma, says:
In keeping with the theme of our Summit and Awards, ‘Back to Breakthrough,’ iSixSigma is recognizing programs and projects that have demonstrated outstanding accomplishment. To qualify for the competition, for example, programs must have a minimum ROI of 5x; projects must deliver a 90% reduction in defects, or a minimum $250,000 and 5x ROI. Most entries achieved far greater.
Below are the finalists.
Most Successful Lean Six Sigma Start-up Programs:
Most Successful Re-energized Lean Six Sigma Programs:
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Customer Service at Betfair
Lean Six Sigma Works at NewPage
NewPage Corp. also Top 10 Best Places to Work for Six Sigma Professionals
United Services Automobile Association, Finalist for Best Achievement of Organizational Business Improvement in Financial ServicesÂ
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iSixSigma’s Best Places to Work Competition
Posted by: meikah | 2 July 2008 | 8:15 pm
Last week, Michael Marx announced that iSixSigma is looking for nominees for the Best Places to Work for Six Sigma folks.
Are you in that kind of company? Or Do you know of any company that is the best place to work for Six Sigma advocates?
If you are or you know of one company, check out Michael’s post.
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Six Sigma at Citation Corporation
Posted by: meikah | 27 May 2008 | 7:00 pm
Citation Corporation designs, develops and manufactures high-quality cast, machined and assembled components for the automotive, heavy trucks, and industrial markets. It employs 2,700 associates in Alabama, Texas, Indiana, Michigan, North Carolina and Wisconsin.
East Texas News reports that Citation just certified its first wave of Six Sigma Green Belts. The company eyes a company-wide initiative to certify 42 Six Sigma Green Belts at its castings facilities in 2008.
For this initiative, a GE Master Black Belt team is providing the company with training and project mentoring.
Citation’s COO, Cary Wood:
“Six Sigma certification is a valuable tool that is helping us reduce process variation and drive continuous improvement throughout our manufacturing operations. With these certifications, we are planning double-digit improvements in quality indicators. Additionally, Six Sigma methods will add support to our existing Lean initiatives already underway, aimed at strengthening our position as a world-class supplier.”
This initiative combined with the existing 18 Six Sigma Black Belts and the 21 members of senior management who recently received executive overview training, brings the total count to 81 employees, or 18 percent of the salaried workforce, who have gone through some level of Six Sigma training in the past six months.
Source:
iSixSigma News
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Looking for iSixSigma Live 2009 Summit Sessions and Ideas (And Speakers)
Posted by: meikah | 25 May 2008 | 10:23 pm
Michael Cyger of iSixSigma blogosphere is inviting you, your ideas, and your participation to the iSixSigma Live 2009 Summit. Check his invite-post now!
Last May 1, you were also invited to the premiere of the iSixSigma Live! Social and Networking Party in Seattle. The event was very successful, and Michael Cyger himself wrote about it.
If you had been to that premiere or you missed it, then you wouldn’t want to miss the summit in 2009, do you?
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SixSig Announcement: 2008 ISSSP Leadership Conference has Started
Posted by: meikah | 20 May 2008 | 7:15 pm
Check out the iSixSigma blogs for updates of this event.
Already, Michael Marx has posted two updates over at his SixSigmaCompanies blog. 
Find the conference details here.
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Six Sigma Movements
Posted by: meikah | 7 May 2008 | 8:21 pm
iSixSigma highlights a few Six Sigma movements in the past couple of weeks.
StreetInsider announces that Russell W. Duke, Ph.D. will join Sunquest Information Systems, Inc., as an executive consultant. Sunquest is a market leader in laboratory information systems, and Duke will fill in the role that will enable him to contribute towards developing and driving the company’s Lean Lab and Outreach strategies.
Over at eMediaWire, Change Management Consulting, Inc. (CMC), a privately-owned management consulting and training firm appoints Brad Thorne as Vice President and Global Lean Six Sigma Practice Head.
The EarthTimes also announces the promotion of Kerry Fordyce to the position of Vice President of Manufacturing at Arrow Industrial Ltd. Arrow Industrial’s President, Bob Geoffroy, said, “Kerry is a strong business manager who can use his experience with lean manufacturing, Six Sigma, statistical process control, finance, leadership and safety to help us continue providing products and services that meet or exceed the expectations of our customers.”
*Photo from Insyte-Consulting
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Sheraton Doha Resort & Convention Hotel Goes Six Sigma
Posted by: meikah | 5 May 2008 | 7:31 pm
Arabian Business Online reports:
Two of Sheraton Doha Resort & Convention Hotel executives attended the recently concluded Six Sigma Green Belt (Six Sigma GB) Workshop at the Sheraton Amman Al Nabil Hotel & Towers.
Starwood Hotels started with its Six Sigma initiatives in 2006, and have been training its people since. The pilot project was with the Westin Chicago River North’s Unwind project, which came up with a set of nightly activities that would draw guests out of their rooms and into the lobby where they could meet, mingle, and develop a greater loyalty to the hotel group.
The newly trained Green Belts at Sheraton Doha wil now be responsible for transfering projects tested and proven to be effective in the realization of Starwood Hotels’ philosophy — that is to bring warm, comforting connections to all valued guests and associates.
It’s good to know that Starwood Hotels is really serious about going Six Sigma and is committed to giving only the best to its clientele.
Kudos Starwood Hotels!
Source:
iSixSigma News
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Ps —> Q —> Six Sigma Deployment
Posted by: meikah | 5 March 2008 | 1:57 am
Mind your Ps to achieve Q.
It’s not really a formula in the sense that no relationship has been shown in the equation. But it’s a sound advice for those who plan of going into Six Sigma deployment.
Bryan Carey, EVP of DeLeeuw Associates, LLC, writing for iSixSigma recommends that before you deploy Six Sigma, you need to mind your Ps first to get your Q. The Ps are can either be the Push approach or the Pull approach, and then what’s the Position of your company in the learning curve.
Remember that not all companies or processes are ready and receptive of Six Sigma of Lean Six Sigma. Thus, it’s important that you know where your company lies in the learning curve. This is when the Push or Pull approach comes in. You pull out if the company is not ready, and you push (go through with the deployment) if the company is ready.
After determining the Position, and whether to do a Push or Pull approach, you are now ready to achieve your Q. The Q stand for Quality. Carey puts it quite well when he says:
…the company must meet the expectations and requirements internally, before it can deliver the right answers externally. To do that, the organization needs to mind its Ps (understand its Position on the curve, Push or Pull) to get the Q (Quality).
