Article Revised: March 27, 2019 September 26, 2011 Continuous Process Improvement Symposiums, sponsored by California State University at Northridge, has announced that their first posthumous Lifetime Fox Award will honor...
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12Apr
Creating Customer Value or should I say Removing Non Value
It is not the “people” that creates the value, but the activity (process) they do that creates it.If you focus on the “things” in the process and NOT the...
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18Mar
The Seven Types of Waste a Summary
You may have seen a couple of posts I have done on the seven types of waste. I have completed seven articles on all seven types of waste you...
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27Oct
The Roadmap to a Successful Six Sigma Project
There are a lot of reasons that Six Sigma projects fail but they do not have to IF you can stick to the roadmap. I have done lots of...
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03Sep
Project Selection – Getting a good one!
Article Revised: April 26, 2019 Project selection is critical to project success. To insure you have the right project let me give you nine areas that you should think about...
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06Jul
Human Metrics
Six Sigma teaches us to view everything as a process. We should take an objective look at the system, measure the values, form a model, enact changes on the...
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19Jun
Six Sigma: 5 Reasons why Big Business is Going Geek
Article Revised: March 26, 2019 Businesses always want to cut down on costs, improve profits, and drive the bottom line. Yet, increasingly companies are learning that the traditional practices just...
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20Apr
“Pareto” Misuse
Many people have built the Bar Chart and called it a Pareto Chart. Even I in my early years as a Quality Engineer created this chart as a “Pareto...
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31Mar
Six Sigma Projects Management Support
The most critical item to the success of a Six Sigma project is management support. We always check and ask for it. But is what we ask for what...
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