six sigma
What is Six Sigma?
The Sigma value is a variable that shows the spread of a characteristic of the output of a process.
For a higher Sigma value, the process is more stable with a lower risk for bad products and with lower costs. The value of six sigma represents 3,4 faults for one million opportunities!
The “Six Sigma” approach is a comprehensive and flexible system for achieving and sustaining business successes. Six Sigma is driven by close understanding of customer needs, to improve the product quality and to minimize the costs.
Why Six sigma?
To deal with a world of declining product prices, to compete successfully with the best companies in the world, to establish a standard language and approach across our businesses and to support our suppliers to meet the expectations of our customers.
The Six Sigma projects
The proven Six Sigma project results are diverse: cost reduction, productivity improvement, market-share growth, customer retention, cycle-time reduction, defect reduction, culture change, time to market product/ service development reduction.
The targets are decreasing the:
The Six Sigma methods
The six sigma approach has a well defined and structural project structure. Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve and Control - with management milestones.
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Depending of the problem, dedicated tools are used to analyze and to define effective solutions. The improvement decisions are based on the disciplined use of facts, data, and statistical analysis. After the introduction of the solution, control methods are introduced to maintain and sustain the achieved costs and quality targets.