10 Accelerators of Six Sigma Results
Posted by: meikah | 20 January 2011 | 12:02 am
Through Six Sigma IQ/Process Excellence Network, I got hold of Terence Burton’s article entitled The Ten Accelerators of Lean Six Sigma Results. They are:
Strategic Leadership and VisionAccelerator 1: Reset deployment leadership, strategy, and visionDeployment PlanningAccelerator 2: Develop a robust deployment planAccelerator 3: Provide customized education and developmentAccelerator 4: Communicate, communicate, communicateAccelerator 5: Launch with the best in mindExecutionAcclerator 6: Provide strong extensive mentoring supportAccelerator 7: DMAIC the deployment process regularlyAccelerator 8: Accelerate individual project pathsAccelerator 9: Complete the C in DMAICAccelerator 10: Practice concurrent continuous deployment
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Webcast: Lean Six Sigma Goes Global at Molex
Posted by: meikah | 19 January 2011 | 11:32 pm
Powersteering brings you this webcast on Lean Six Sigma Goes Global at Molex.
Join Mike Higgins, Global Lean Six Sigma Manager at Molex for a peek into a worldwide initiative to reduce waste, eliminate process variation and develop a stronger customer bond. He’ll describe how continuous improvement is focused on the areas that impact customers, reduce costs and increase revenue. And he’ll share Lean Six Sigma insights from his 4 year deployment journey, including how Molex:
- Prevents problems instead of fixing them
- Eliminates waste and improves efficiency
- Applies quality principles across business processes
- Maintains a pipeline of approved Black Belt projects
- Drives behavior change with executive visibility
- Replicates best practices with PowerSteering
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Quality Quiz from PQ Systems e-Line
Posted by: meikah | 12 January 2011 | 7:42 pm
PQ Systems through it’s Quality eline newsletter brings us another quality quiz by Professor Leary.
For this month’s quiz and a chance to win a copy of Quality Quiz Classics, submit your response by January 28 to be entered in the drawing.
Here’s the quiz:
Justin Tyme, quality technician for National Dairy Products, represents the newest threat to colleagues Marsha Mallow’s and Maura Thesame’s reputation as statistical experts, especially since he has his eye on their job. He recognizes the limitations of their understanding, and feels quite smug about his own statistical prowess.
Winners of last month’s quiz who will get a copy of Quality Quiz Classics DVD:
Angie Hicks (Appalachian Regional Healthcare System)
Juan Pardo (Worthington Steel Specialty Processing)
Eliazer Rivota-Ortega (Solar Spring & Wire Forms)
Kevin Tinson (Lonza Biolgics PLC)
Linda Willett (NPR Manufacturing LLC).
Congratulations!
Filed under: PQ Systems eLine, Quality Quiz, Six Sigma, Statistics
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Amherst, New York Goes Six Sigma
Posted by: meikah | 13 December 2010 | 12:32 am
First, it was Erie County and then other counties such as Aiken and San Bernandino followed. Now, it’s Amherst turns to go Six Sigma.
Already, its Town Board approved $24,000 to begin training for a Lean Six Sigma. The Amherst Chamber of Commerce will pick up the tab for half of the training cost.
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Six Sigma Implementation Process
Posted by: meikah | 10 November 2010 | 8:47 pm
Filed under: Deployment, Six Sigma, Six Sigma References
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Quality Quiz from PQ Systems e-Line
Posted by: meikah | 10 November 2010 | 8:17 pm
PQ Systems through it’s Quality eline newsletter brings us another quality quiz by Professor Leary.
For this month’s quiz, and a chance to win a copy of Quality Quiz Classics, submit your response by November 29 to be entered in the drawing.
Here’s the quiz:
You just never know what will develop from something that begins as an exercise in using sampling techniques, especially when you put an idea on to simmer and hope that it comes to a full boil. When Russ T. Buckett’s boss, M.T. Pott, heard about Russ’ idea for developing and marketing a new exotic tea product, he was bubbling over with enthusiasm for the idea. Nonetheless, he wanted Russ to test the water, so to speak, to be sure that it represented a hot market for the new product.
Winners of last month’s quiz who will get a copy of Quality Quiz Classics DVD:
Noel Farrington (Flowserve)
Bartosz Jankowski (LG Electronics)
James Lauer (Caterpillar Inc.)
Carolyn S. Townsend (Clarian Health)
Kelly Whitehead (Ballard Power Systems)
Congratulations!
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Job Seekers Enroll in Lean Six Sigma Training
Posted by: meikah | 8 November 2010 | 9:16 pm
The recession in the U.S. leaves many workers unemployed. Mary Wolf-Francis, business liaison for Workforce Division of the city of Phoenix Community and Economic Development Department, calls these workers as the “unlikely unemployed” because they are people who have advanced degrees and have decades of high-level experience.
So what city administrators of Phoenix City did was to use a portion of the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act funds to help these out-of-work professionals. They worked in partnership with the Global Outreach and Extended Education (GOEE) office of Arizona State University’s Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering. The out-of-work professionals were given trainings in Lean Six Sigma. The training composed of 2 sessions of a two-week Lean Six Sigma Green Belt program and 1 session of a four-week Lean Six Sigma Black Belt program.
The administrators believe that these trainings will arm the workers with the right skills to join the American workforce.
Filed under: Economy, Lean Six Sigma, Six Sigma, Six Sigma Belt, Six Sigma Training
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Six Sigma Reference Feature: A Primer on Design of Experiments (DOE)
Posted by: meikah | 8 November 2010 | 8:47 pm
Six Sigma, or its DMAIC tool, is closely connected with DOE, design of experiments. In general usage, a design of experiment is any information-gathering exercises where variation is present. This system finds cause-and-effect relationships, an information you need to manage process inputs and optimize the output.
An article on iSixSigma discusses a primer of Design of Experiments. The article starts the discussion with a definition of terms to an example, and to the process.
Read: Design of Experiments – A Primer
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Six Sigma Companies News: Southcoast Health System Saves $20M Without Layoffs
Posted by: meikah | 28 October 2010 | 12:31 am
Here’s another edition of Six Sigma Companies News.
Southcoast Health System–a three-hospital system based in New Bedford, Mass.–has saved $20 million since it began implementing Lean Six Sigma in January 2009, the New England Business Bulletin reports. The savings are “well over” the amount invested, Patrick Gannon, vice president and chief quality officer for Southcoast Hospitals Group, told the Bulletin.
Filed under: Healthcare, Lean Six Sigma, Six Sigma, Six Sigma News, Six Sigma Organizations
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4 Qualities That Identify a Successful Six Sigma Belt Candidate
Posted by: meikah | 27 October 2010 | 11:54 pm
When you launch a Six Sigma initiative, you would survey your people and form a Six Sigma team. Of course, in so doing, you check out every employee and his potentials to carry on with a Six Sigma project.
- Learning Ability. A candidate must be able to understand instructions and underlying principles with the ability to reason and make sound decisions possessing an analytical mindset.
- Leadership. A candidate must demonstrate leadership in a team environment with the ability to mentor team members to achieve a level of knowledge that fosters cultural growth and individual project success.
- Desire. A candidate must possess the trait of motivation that has been demonstrated in past performance.
- Determination. A candidate must devote full strength and concentrate attention to achieving results in the short and long term.
