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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Driving forces

Quality management; Six Sigma

Forces that tend to change a situation in desirable ways.

Imagineering

Quality management; Six Sigma

Developing in the mind's eye a process without waste.

Nagara system

Quality management; Six Sigma

Smooth production flow, ideally one piece at a time, characterised by synchronisation (balancing) of production processes and maximum use of available time; includes overlapping of operations where ...

Certification

Quality management; Six Sigma

The result of a person meeting the established criteria set by a certificate granting organization.

ISO 9000 series standards

Quality management; Six Sigma

A set of international standards on quality management and quality assurance developed to help companies effectively document the quality system elements to be implemented to maintain an efficient ...

Andon board

Quality management; Six Sigma

A production area visual control device, such as a lighted overhead display. It communicates the status of the production system and alerts team members to emerging problems (from andon, a Japanese ...

Total quality

Quality management; Six Sigma

A strategic integrated system for achieving customer satisfaction that involves all managers and employees and uses quantitative methods to continuously improve an organization's processes.