Six Sigma in your Donuts
Posted by: meikah | 11 November 2007 | 8:46 pm
Perhaps, next to hamburger, you often find donuts in people’s daily food fare. Thus, running a donut business is serious business.
Maidstone Bakeries know this too well. They produce more than 60 million donuts per week, and to ensure quality in their products and services, they feel they must go Six Sigma.
Dyadem, a leading provider of Quality Lifecycle Management and Risk Lifecycle Management solutions, will help Maidstone Bakeries, a joint venture between IAWS Group and Tim Hortons, achieve their goals.
According to Brett Kyle, Continuous Improvement training manager at Maidstone and Six Sigma master black belt:
“Six Sigma is a standard, disciplined methodology and Dyadem’s FMEA Pro-7 gave us an easy and painless way to take this approach, helping us solve problems using data rather than gut feel. Since the implementation, we’ve significantly reduced costs and clearly shifted to the next level of quality. FMEA-Pro showed us new ways to solve old problems, by helping us find the roots and develop new procedures to address them. The results were very often surprising.”
Source:
reliableplant.com, an iSixSigma featured link
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Filed under: Benefits and Savings, iSixSigma, ProcessModel, Six Sigma, Food, Maidstone Bakeries, Dyadem
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Nine Critical Factors to Help Six Sigma Deliver the Money
Posted by: meikah | 17 July 2007 | 8:07 pm
Perhaps one of the biggest questions in Six Sigma projects is how much they are contributing to the company bottomline. Some companies claim that after a year, or even six months, of Six Sigma, they are already enjoying a lot of savings. Others say that they have yet to see some ripple in their finances.
So aside from improved processes and allegedly happy customers, how can Six Sigma bring in the money to the organization?
ProcessModel, Inc. puts out nine critical factors to help Six Sigma deliver the money.
- Find the projects with the greatest overall return
- Overall interdependencies in processes
- Risk free experimentation
- Reduced experimentation time
- Optimize
- Impact of change on the existing process
- Combined projects required to see the money
- Close the gap between project inception and financial impact
- Communicate how a process will perform in understandable terms (even a manager can understand)
Apparently, all these factors are made possible with ProcessModel software. Yet, I believe that these nine factors are only logical to do. These are the things Six Sigma books tells practitioners to do when deploying Six Sigma projects. Good reminder for everyone, though.
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