QFD Process Design Roadmap
The task of designing a new process or dramatically improving an existing process can seem overwhelming. Quality Function Deployment, QFD, provides a collaborative tool to guide decision making and trade off evaluations. QFD contrasts “What” the customer wants with “How” the “What”...
Lean Root Cause Analysis
- Do you have processes that don’t perform the way you would like them to?
- Do you have processing errors and customer complaints?
- Does it seem like nothing ever gets out the door on time?
- Are you tired of the inefficiencies and waste in your processes?
If you are in this...
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How does Lean Six Sigma work?
Lean Six Sigma is all about the integration of practical application tool kits. Lean is the synchronization of process output to customer demand.
There are seven key principles in the Lean philosophy.
- Eliminate Waste, where waste is defined as anything other than the minimum amount of...
Why Lean, then Six Sigma, and now Lean Six Sigma?
Lean has its roots in the Just in Time and Continuous Flow days of the 1970s. Supporting the implementations and solving problems back then was the job of the TQM folks using one of many multi-step problem solving processes. We had the TQ people and the JIT people, who generally talked, but...
