Category: Six Sigma

An overview of Six Sigma taken from one of the lessons in Pyzdek Institute Six Sigma Black Belt training.

Continuous Process Improvement Symposiums, sponsored by California State University at Northridge, has announced that their first posthumous Lifetime Fox Award will honor quality improvement legend Dr. W. Edwards Deming. Dr. Deming’s award will be accepted by the Deming Family. It is scheduled for presentation on November 18, 2011 during the 2011 CSI symposium which runs…

Click here to access the NIST/SEMATECH e-Handbook of Statistical Methods. NIST is an agency of the US Department of commerce, so this work was undertaken at public expense. It covers literally every statistical tool used in Lean Six Sigma, and many, many more. It includes hundreds of case studies and examples. Best of all, it’s…

A student in my Lean Six Sigma Black Belt training course asked the following question: Hi Tom, In the lesson on “Choosing the Project – Carefully Assess Candidate Projects to Assure Success”, slide # 21 – it states that the project charter has low relative important criteria, second to the last important criteria. Why is…

In response to a message from a colleague asking about the relationship between Lean, Six Sigma and Quality, I wrote the following: Both Lean and Six Sigma (and Lean Six Sigma, the combination of the two) are ways of improving operational excellence. Lean does this by improving flow through value streams, primarily focusing on the…

Quality Digest reports that a study by The Avery Group shows that companies flush with strong balance sheets after taking drastic actions during the recession are clearly making aggressive moves to bolster their internal talent pools by seeking both lean and Six Sigma talent, according to the seventh annual study from The Avery Group, which…

Lean, Six Sigma and Quality provide a set of tools and a framework for achieving excellence in any process.Quality professionals are able to help organizations determine if customer requirements are properly defined and if the organization is meeting those requirements. Lean practitioners have a set of skills that can be used to eliminate waste in…

In the movie “The Graduate,” the new graduate is told by a would-be mentor to remember only one word as he heads out into the world: Plastics. Times have changed. Hal Varian, the chief economist at Google says, ‘‘I keep saying that the sexy job in the next 10 years will be statisticians. And I’m not kidding.’’…

PEOPLECERT Group, the experts in certifying professionals, today announced the accreditation of Pyzdek Institute , the global online training company, as an Accredited Training Organization for the International Association for Six Sigma Certification (IASSC) Lean Six Sigma exams. PEOPLECERT Group offers independent, globally recognized certifications that evaluate competence, know-how and expertise and are key to today’s competitive,…