Six Sigma in the University
Posted by: meikah | 10 February 2009 | 9:45 pm
Ferris State University Board of Trustees has just taken in a new member, Alisha Baker. Ms. Baker used to work for DuPont Automotive Finishes as a customer service manager. She is a certified Six Sigma Black Belt.
Ferris President David Eisler says,
“Ms. Baker’s experience with quality as a Six Sigma Black Belt and with manufacturing in the automotive sector is a wonderful addition to our board of trustees as we seek to improve the Michigan economy. We are very pleased that she brings her perspective of southeast Michigan to our board as Ferris continues to meet the needs of our citizens in this area.”
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The SixSig Roundup
Posted by: meikah | 10 February 2009 | 7:10 pm
It’s time again for some link-loving and see what other blogs are saying about Six Sigma, Lean, Lean Six Sigma and other quality improvement processes.
Discover6Sigma shares the concept of Affinity Diagram. If you’re handling large and complex data, and you need to evaluate and come up with a decision using that data, then affinity diagraming may just be useful.
At Your Marketing Machine, an entry talks about companies going into lean, but whose lean efforts don’t t even touch marketing operations. Thus the post recommends to lean your marketing.
The Art of Service talks about the need for discipline in the IT service management. Since ITSM is a process-based framework, then it is complementary with Six Sigma or business process management.
noank6.com talks about the role of the champion in Six Sigma. Six Sigma Champions have to undertake the very important task of aligning the Six Sigma projects to the objectives of the organization.
GembaTM Panta Rei asks, where did value stream mapping come from? The idea might have originated from John Shook and Mike Rother who are both pioneers in introducing material and information flow diagramming and developing lean thinking.
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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.
