Students at an Indiana college have taken Six Sigma beyond the classroom and put it to use in improving their college campus. At the Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology in Terre …
In 2015, American Rheinmetall Systems (ARS) faced a challenge. The German-owned engineering company needed to streamline operations to give employees more time to take on additional defense contracts. The businesses’ …
The DMAIC is strong with this one. No? Doesn’t quite have the same ring to it? Well, maybe not. But, it seems clear to anyone with both an interest in …
In 2013, the Tuprag mining company in Turkey faced two situations that severely impacted the company’s ability to effectively run the Efemcukuru gold mine. First, gold prices dropped from a …
The acronym SIPOC stands for Suppliers, Inputs, Process, Outputs and Customer. Using information from these five areas creates a process map that gives a high-level overview of a Six Sigma project.
With the economy in India slowing, a global professional services company has launched a new cloud-based operational excellence platform that may help solve some of the country’s ongoing manufacturing issues. …
Do you really know what your customers want out of your product or service? Do you know the difference between a customer need and a customer requirement?
In 2016, the Riverside County jail made a surprising discovery. According to a study conducted by an outside group, almost 50% of the people in Riverside’s jail were being held …
In modern day France, Vercingetorix is remembered as the hero who stood against Julius Caesar’s unstoppable military force, and waged a war not of swords and spears, but of processes and logistics.
How do you define quality? It’s one of those tricky words that has a subjective definition, but is used liberally in discussion and (generally) agreed upon. What makes for a …
