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Can Lean Six Sigma Make CSI Better?
While the CSI (Crime Scene Investigation) teams on television may be able to resolve a case in under an hour, real life criminal cases can take days, weeks, months, even years to finish. And like many real life police units throughout the country, the police in Monroe County in western New York found themselves faced […]
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Lean Six Sigma Skills Still in Demand in 2013
A new report from executive search firm The Avery Point Group indicates the demand for continuous improvement talent and Lean Six Sigma skills has more than doubled from 2010. Although there have been three consecutive years of sustained demand for Lean Six Sigma skills, there was also a noticeable improvement in the demand for Six Sigma talent […]
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Lean Six Sigma and the 5S Program
In Lean Six Sigma, the 5S program stands for the Japanese words seiri, seiton, seiso, seiketsu, and shitsuke. Roughly translated, the American equivalent becomes: In general, 5S is not just a methodology, it’s a culture, used to organize, develop, and sustain a productive work environment. The benefit of utilizing 5S is that if offers improved […]
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Lean Six Sigma Simplifies Tasks through Process Mapping
A primary component of Lean Six Sigma is eliminating documented and undocumented waste. Documented waste, frequently tracked through an organization’s automated systems, is easier to measure and correct. However, undocumented waste – non-value-added steps and events unintentionally incorporated into a process over time, sometimes along with required value-added steps – is often more troubling. That’s […]
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How to Eliminate the Seven Kinds of Waste Using Lean Six Sigma
There are seven major types of non-value-added work: Though as an organization you may find some of these – transportation and inventory, for instance – are necessary, they don’t add value to the customer’s experience. When trying to increase value for your customers with Lean Six Sigma, value equals only what the customer is willing […]
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Use 5-Whys to Eliminate Non-Value-Added Steps in Your Lean Six Sigma Process
Lean Six Sigma is all about doing the right things in the most efficient way in order to provide value to customers. Yet, organizations routinely include non-value-added steps – work that isn’t important to the customer – that increase expenses. Since customers only want to pay for value, it makes no sense to incorporate non-value-added […]
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Combining Lean Six Sigma with Simulation Software
Systems rarely perform exactly as predicted. This is the opening line from a Predicting Process Variability blog. It is also, according to the blog, “the driving force behind most improvement projects.” Because variability is inherent in all processes, regardless if you work in manufacturing or at a bank, there will always be some amount of […]
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Lean Six Sigma: Improving the Environment
Our growing focus on improving our environment has placed pressure on many organizations to re-evaluate their business practices. As a result, many manufacturers are on the hot seat when it comes to implementing production methods that will lessen their environmental impact. That’s the beauty of Lean Six Sigma. By aligning it with sustainability principles, manufacturers […]
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Are Lean Six Sigma and BYOD a Good Mix?
Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) seems to be cropping up in organizations all across the country these days, as the convenience and portability of these devices allows their owners to do a host of tasks, wherever they are. Though some see this move as a potential security risk, if personal devices improve worker productivity, this […]
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Lean Six Sigma Reduces Government Waste
Lean Six Sigma works for private-sector companies, so why not big government? That’s exactly what many people want to know. Well, several years ago the U.S. government began applying Lean Six Sigma (LSS) techniques to some departments and agencies. The U.S. Army and Navy implemented LSS in 2005 and 2006, saving a combined $2.45 billion as […]