Going Green with Six Sigma
The efficient approach to Going Green for any company is to follow the five phased DMAIC improvement process of Six Sigma. Going Green can mean different things to different organizations. You will have to define what Going Green means for your organization.
Defining your problems with waste...
Tracking Performance over Time
Tracking performance over time can be accomplished using either one of two methods which are Run Charts or Control Charts. Both methods use time as the baseline and the performance measure as the measurement that is tracked over time. The major differences in the methods relate to the measures...
Performance Measurement
Measuring performance is the key for driving dramatic improvements in any organization. Choosing the right performance measures, or metrics, is essential to hone the focus of improvement project teams.
The key to honing the focus for the project team is to select measurements that are...
Control Strategy that Works
Maintaining the gains from operations improvements is challenging, but not insurmountable. It all starts at the beginning of your improvement project before you have made any changes. The following steps are a guide to make your improvements stick!
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Before and After Measurements
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Design of Experiments Process
The objectives for conducting a designed experiment are the following:
- Find the most important factors/variables affecting a response(s).
- Determine the best settings to improve the response(s) for the important factors.
- Determine the cost effective settings for the factors that are...
