The Lean Six Sigma Black Belt Handbook: Tools and Methods for Process Acceleration

Last updated Feb 22, 2015

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Although Lean and Six Sigma appear to be quite different, when used together they have shown to deliver unprecedented improvements to quality and profitability. The Lean Six Sigma Black Belt Handbook: Tools and Methods for Process Acceleration explains how to integrate these seemingly dissimilar approaches to increase production speed while decreasing variations and costs in your organization.

Presenting problem-solving tools you can use to immediately determine the sources of the problems in your organization, the book is based on a recent survey that analyzed Six Sigma tools to determine which are the most beneficial. Although it focuses on the most commonly used tools, it also includes coverage of those used a minimum of two times on every five Six Sigma projects.

Filled with diagrams of the tools you’ll need, the book supplies a comprehensive framework to help you for organize and process the vast amount of information currently available about Lean, quality managem

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Mark Sorenson says 10 years ago

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful

A wonderful addition to the science of Lean Six Sigma, September 6, 2013

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This review is from: The Lean Six Sigma Black Belt Handbook: Tools and Methods for Process Acceleration (Hardcover)

This is an outstanding book and a significant addition to the literature in the science of “quality.” I have spent the past 35 years managing software and hardware teams in the computer industry and wish such a book had been available many years ago. The Lean Six Sigma Black Belt Handbook is much more than a guide to eliminating defects, improving quality, increasing speed, and eliminating cost. It is a concise, yet complete, reference guide to all aspects of Lean Six Sigma. Chapter by chapter it builds a foundation that the reader can absorb a piece at a time. It bridges theory with practical application and provides an inordinate amount of detail in describing and defining the enormous, and sometimes daunting, number of concepts, tools, and processes. A glance thru the table of context can be a bit intimidating but actually acts as a reference guide to those who have some familiarity with Six Sigma and Lean but wish to go deeper or brush up on some detail or nuance during an actual project or simply gaining more knowledge about the subject. I personally enjoyed the many references and linkages to the heritage of the field of quality that I first became familiar with so many years ago…such as TQM and the Toyota Production System. How far we have come. This book certainly “stands on the shoulders of giants!”

Mark Sorenson
Senior Vice President, EMC Corporation (Retired)

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