Six Sigma

Six Sigma

Originally developed by Motorola in 1986, Six Sigma is quality management method that helps organizations to improve the capability of their business processes. This increase in performance and decrease in process variation lead to defect reduction and improvement in profits, employee morale and quality of products or services.

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quality policy

Quality management; Six Sigma

An organization's general statement of its beliefs about quality, how quality will come about and its expected result.

Specification

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A document that states the requirements to which a given product or service must conform.

Kanban

Quality management; Six Sigma

A Japanese term for one of the primary tools of a justin- time system. It maintains an orderly and efficient flow of materials throughout the entire manufacturing process. It is usually a printed ...

Kaizen

Quality management; Six Sigma

A Japanese term that means gradual unending improvement by doing little things better and setting and achieving increasingly higher standards. Masaaki Imai made the term famous in his book, Kaizen: ...

Key performance indicator (KPI)

Quality management; Six Sigma

A statistical measure of how well an organisation is doing in a particular area. A KPI could measure a company's financial performance or how it is holding up against customer requirements.

Downtime

Quality management; Six Sigma

Lost production time during which a piece of equipment is not operating correctly due to breakdown, maintenance, power failures or similar events.

Autonomation

Quality management; Six Sigma

A form of automation in which machinery automatically inspects each item after producing it and ceases production and notifies humans if a defect is detected. Toyota expanded the meaning of jidohka ...