Six Sigma Simplified, 3rd ed – Breakthrough Improvement Made Easy Reviews
Six Sigma Simplified, 3rd ed – Breakthrough Improvement Made Easy
Six Sigma Simplified is a step-by-step guide to getting started with Six Sigma in any size company. Most existing companies are at level 3.5 sigma (1-2% error rate). Most startup companies are only at level 2 sigma (15-30%). Dramatic improvements are possible by following a simple process: Focus, Improve, Sustain, and Honor. 1. developing a Master Improvement Story that focuses on 50% or greater reduction in time, defects, and costs
2. defining the key problems to solve (less than 4% of your business creates over 50% of the waste, rework, and cost.)
3. highly focused teams of employees who analyze and determine the root causes and solutions in a day or less.
4. implementing and verifying the improvement has reduced defects, time or cost by 50% or more.
5. sustaining the improvement using flow and control charts.
6. recognizing and rewarding the improvement teams for their efforts. Most companies find that they can make a one-sigma improvement in 12 months and a two-
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Rath & Strong’s GE WorkOut for Six Sigma Pocket Guide
TWO PROVEN TOOLS FOR SUCCESS IN ONE STEP-BY-STEP POCKET GUIDE Whether you’ve been using Six Sigma for years or are just starting to, you know it takes hard work to get it right. But WorkOut, developed by General Electric, can increase Six Sigma’s success. Rath & Strong’s WorkOut for Six Sigma Pocket Guide shows you how, with an action-ready game plan that you can apply to your initiative – right now. Learn how to: Set the stage for Six Sigma’s success Find out if you’re in trouble – and get back on track Make a good Six Sigma initiative even better See actual results–in less than three months “If you want to bring the power of WorkOut to Six Sigma, this pocket guide is an invaluable tool.”–Ron Ashkenas, co-author of The GE Work-Out Six Sigma: A data-driven approach to meeting customer requirements, solving process problems, and achieving bottom-line results. WorkOut: The revolutionary problem-solving program that b
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Simple and truly a pocket guide,
I just got the book and as promised by Amazon 3-4 weeks of delivery across the ocean.
I have not finished the whole Guide but it is already guiding me how to use WorkOut not only for Six Sigma but for other things in my organisation that need WorkOut.
Six Sigma is something we heard often but not many successfully implement it. I am confident that this guide without any other professional help can prepare us for the Task ahead.
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|Greatly exceeded my expectations,
The author skillfully manages to make learning relatively advanced statistics easy through stories, examples and anecdotes. Where the skills comes in is the wide range of complex topics that are introduced and clearly explained. To a highly technical reader this may come across as either condescending. However, the fact is that all of the important details and techniques are covered in great detail, and are wrapped in friendly prose. This ensures that hard-to-learn concepts need not be hard to learn, nor the learning process intimidating.
What I like is the systematic coverage of key concepts and knowledge areas, each of which builds upon the preceding topic. The book starts with compelling business reasons for embarking on a 6-Sigma initiative, and what 6-Sigma entails. It them introduces an approach for reducing cycle time and improving quality in a 2- and 4-step process. After establishing that framework, the book shows how to sustain the improvements using key indicators for process stability and capability, and how to effectively employ statistical process controls to proactively track them.
The foregoing alone would make this an excellent introductory book on 5-Sigma, but the author goes on to tackle advanced topics such as design of experiments, quality function deployment and benchmarking. These are certainly integral components of a complete 6-Sigma initiative, but I didn’t expect to find them covered in an introductory book. I also liked the complete coverage of basic TQM tools and techniques at the end of the book.
If you need to either learn the fundamentals of 6-Sigma or train a non-technical workforce this is an ideal book. If you are going to teach or facilitate a 6-Sigma workshop you’ll also want the author’s “Six Sigma Instructor Guide” (ISBN 1884180140), which provides a syllabus and learning objectives that use this book as the student text.
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|Six sigma simplified,
It’s so refreshing to review a six sigma publication that doesn’t pretend to be “rocket science”, I particularly enjoyed the extremely simple application of the six sigma methodology and the de- mystifying of the six sigma methodology that tends to be extremely mystified in the majority of six sigma publications. This publication would be an excellent addition to any internal training initiative endeavouring to educate and inform employees of the intentions of this quality tool in a non intelectual way that allows for the integration of more complex mathematical methods of data collection, the clear way that the selection and use of control charts were presented was even understood by my colleauges who admit to being affraid of math. All in all this publication is a practical handbook for breaking the uninitiated into the six sigma philosophy.
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