Posts in category Six Sigma

For professionals to remain relevant in a competitive marketplace, they must pursue continuing education. Without adding to their skills and depth of knowledge, they run the risk of no longer …

The federal government is overdue for an upgrade in skills training for its employees and a shift in how they approach work. Part of that shift includes making continuous process …

A Fishbone Diagram is a visual tool that allows project teams to easily display a list of potential causes of a problem, then break these causes down into increasingly more …

Like every industry, insurance must update its work processes or run the risk of allowing them to become outdated and unsuccessful. And of all the executives in all industries, none …

When working on a Six Sigma project, accurate methods to measure process performance metrics are critical for understanding the current state of a process and the value of changes made. …

While applying Six Sigma to solve workplace challenges is a good strategy, it must start with employees professionally trained in the process improvement methodology. However, many companies may not know …

While created in manufacturing, Lean Six Sigma improves virtually any system in any department because it focuses on eliminating process defects and mistakes. One business department that increasingly puts process …

An x-bar R chart can find the process mean (x-bar) and process range (R) over time. They provide continuous data to determine how well a process functions and stays within acceptable levels of variation. The following example shows how control limits are computed for an x-bar and R chart. The subgroup sample size used in the following example is three.

Lean Six Sigma can help medical device companies do a better job at identifying and putting corrective and preventive actions (CAPA) into place. That could provide a big step forward …

A project charter serves as a detailed road map for a project, clearly defining the problem it will address, who will participate, the intended result and the project’s deadlines. It’s …