Rath & Strong's Six Sigma Leadership Handbook

Rath & Strong's Six Sigma Leadership Handbook
Author: Rath & Strong
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 598
Release: 2003-02-21
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780471251248

Achieve unparalleled customer satisfaction and greater profitability with this essential handbook! Six Sigma is a proven and highly effective business initiative for improving customer satisfaction and increasing the efficiency of processes. Rath & Strong's Six Sigma Leadership Handbook highlights the critical factors that make or break implementation, offers key best practices for getting it right the first time, and offers real-life examples and case studies that light the path to success. With Rath & Strong, you'll get an overview of the tools, methods, approaches, benefits, and risks that are associated with each element of the methodology.

Quality Management and Six Sigma

Quality Management and Six Sigma
Author: Abdurrahman Coskun
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2010-08-16
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 9533071303

If you do not measure, you do not know, and if you do not know, you cannot manage. Modern Quality Management and Six Sigma shows us how to measure and, consequently, how to manage the companies in business and industries. Six Sigma provides principles and tools that can be applied to any process as a means used to measure defects and/or error rates. In the new millennium thousands of people work in various companies that use Modern Quality Management and Six Sigma to reduce the cost of products and eliminate the defects. This book provides the necessary guidance for selecting, performing and evaluating various procedures of Quality Management and particularly Six Sigma. In the book you will see how to use data, i.e. plot, interpret and validate it for Six Sigma projects in business, industry and even in medical laboratories.

Rath and Strong's Six Sigma/DMAIC Road Map

Rath and Strong's Six Sigma/DMAIC Road Map
Author: Rath & Strong, Incorporated
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2005-02-01
Genre:
ISBN: 9780974632834

Rath & Strong's Design for Six Sigma Road Map is a comprehensive visual reference tool on Six Sigma as it relates to the design of products, services and processes. This road map on Design for Six Sigma is ideal for both Manufacturing and Service industries. Black Belts, Green Belt, Sponsors, Champions, Stakeholders, Team Members - all find this road map an invaluable resource for Design for Six Sigma methods, tools and techniques

Emerging Frontiers in Industrial and Systems Engineering

Emerging Frontiers in Industrial and Systems Engineering
Author: Harriet B. Nembhard
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 336
Release: 2019-06-13
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 0429947704

Success is driven through collaboration. The field of Industrial and Systems Engineering has evolved as a major engineering field with interdisciplinary strength drawn from effective utilization, process improvement, optimization, design, and management of complex systems. It is a broad discipline that is important to nearly every attempt to solve problems facing the needs of society and the welfare of humanity. In order to carry this forward, successful collaborations are needed between industry, government, and academia. This book brings together an international group of distinguished practitioners and academics in manufacturing, healthcare, logistics, and energy sectors to examine what enables successful collaborations. The book is divided into two key parts: 1) partnerships, frameworks, and leadership; and 2) engineering applications and case studies. Part I highlights some of the ways partnerships emerge between those seeking to innovate and educate in industrial and systems engineering, some useful frameworks and methodologies, as well as some of the ideas and practices that undergird leadership in the profession. Part II provides case studies and applications to illustrate the power of the partnerships between academia and practice in industrial and systems engineering. Features Examines the success from multiple industries Provides frameworks for building teams and avoiding pitfalls Contains international perspectives of success Uses collaborative approaches from industry, government, and academia Includes real world case studies illustrating the enabling factors Offers engineering education and student-centric takeaways

Statistics for Six Sigma Made Easy! Revised and Expanded Second Edition

Statistics for Six Sigma Made Easy! Revised and Expanded Second Edition
Author: Warren Brussee
Publisher: McGraw Hill Professional
Total Pages: 305
Release: 2012-07-17
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 007179753X

A PLAIN ENGLISH GUIDE TO SOLVING REAL-WORLD PROBLEMS WITH SIX SIGMA Six Sigma is one of the most effective strategies for improving processes, creating better products, and boosting customer satisfaction, but business leaders often balk at its reputation for being too complex. Don't fall into that trap. Six Sigma is simple to understand and implement--if you have Statistics for Six Sigma Made Easy! Warren Brussee has helped businesses save millions of dollars with Six Sigma, and he explains how you can achieve similar results in this step-by-step guide. He presents a thorough overview of the Six Sigma methodology and techniques for successful implementation, as well as a clear explanation of DMAIC--the problem-solving method used by Six Sigma Greenbelts. Statistics for Six Sigma Made Easy! provides: A simplified form of the most common Six Sigma tools All the basic Six Sigma formulas and tables Dozens of Six Sigma statistical problem-solving case studies A matrix for finding the right statistical tool to meet your needs Basic Greenbelt training in one concise reference Best of all, no background in statistics is required--you can start improving quality and initiating costsaving improvements right away. Statistics for Six Sigma Made Easy! is the only reference you need to facilitate real-world application of Six Sigma tools.

Lean Manufacturing in the Developing World

Lean Manufacturing in the Developing World
Author: Jorge Luis García-Alcaraz
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 582
Release: 2014-03-27
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 3319049518

This book presents some definitions and concepts applied in Latin America on lean manufacturing (LM), the LM tools most widely used and human and cultural aspects that most matter in this field. The book contains a total of 14 tools used and reported by authors from different countries in Latin America, with definition, timeline with related research, benefits that have been reported in literature and case studies implemented in Latin American companies. Finally, the book presents a list of softwares available to facilitate the tools' implementation, monitoring and improvement.