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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Robustness

Quality management; Six Sigma

The condition of a product or process design that remains relatively stable, with a minimum of variation, even though factors that influence operations or usage, such as environment and wear, are ...

Process control

Quality management; Six Sigma

The method for keeping a process within boundaries; the act of minimising the variation of a process.

Voluntary standard

Quality management; Six Sigma

A standard that imposes no inherent obligation regarding its use.

Production analysis board

Quality management; Six Sigma

A job site board on which hourly production targets are recorded, along with the actual production achieved. Details concerning problems and abnormal conditions are also recorded. Management cheques ...

Value stream manager

Quality management; Six Sigma

Person responsible for creating a future state map and leading door-to-door implementation of the future state for a particular product family. Makes change happen across departmental and functional ...