Posts in category Six Sigma

In 2017 and 2018, two military facilities in the southeastern United States have worked hard to emphasize Lean and Lean Six Sigma principles – and they’ve both gone about it …

If you’re looking for a model or blueprint for Lean Six Sigma implementation, then Las Vegas, Nevada is a good place to start your search. Every year, at the Lean …

In 2015, during a training exercise with the Republic of Korea, the United States Army 7th Transportation Brigade realized something important. One of their watercraft models – the “modular warping …

Chances are, a part of your business is online. Right now. Floating “out there,” preserved somewhere on the internet. Even small businesses, these days, have entered the online arena – …

Six Sigma is too often related with men. It’s understandable, in a way. Men, after all, invented Six Sigma for Motorola in the 1980s. Men also refined the system at …

The job duties of a process improvement manager can vary depending on the industry or employer. But in all cases, the main goal of a process improvement manager is to improve and maintain efficient and profitable operations that also produce the highest quality of products and services.

An engineer who has launched her own change management consulting company is using the principles of Lean to both improve business operations and empower employees. Sabrina Butcher has the experience …

Lean offers a variety of strategies for identifying and eliminating waste. One of the most effective comes with an interesting name: Single Minute Exchange of Die (SMED). It’s also known …

A global electronics company won two awards this year for projects that used the principles of Lean Six Sigma to improve efficiency in the company’s warehouse and shipping departments. One …

For those new to Six Sigma, the terminology can get confusing. Before getting too deep into trying to learn the methodology, it’s important to know exactly which one you should …