In general, a Six Sigma Black Belt should be quantitatively oriented.
With minimal guidance, the Six Sigma Black Belt should be able to use data to convert broad generalizations into...
12Apr
DMAIC and DMADV
The tools of Six Sigma are most often applied within a simple performance improvement model known as Define-Measure-Analyze-Improve-Control, or DMAIC. DMAIC is summarized in Table 1. DMAIC is used...
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06Apr
The Benefit Effort Matrix – A Tool to Determine Where to Apply Your Resources
An excerpt from my latest book, Everything is a Process. Available on Amazon. I have twenty potential projects at my company. Which are the ones that provide the greatest...
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05Apr
It’s Time to Ditch Process Capability Indices
Process capability indices (PCI) have long been popular with many quality professionals. But they’ve also been controversial and a number of reputable experts have advocated that they be abandoned....
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22Mar
Process Capability-Let’s Skip the Jargon
To many quality engineers and managers, process capability is a jumbled confusion of ideas expressed in jargon that only the anointed can understand. Let me try to clear the...
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17Mar
The Pyzdek Plan to Quit Smoking
My usual blog posts are about six sigma, lean, or process excellence. This one is different. I got the idea when my son asked me when I quit smoking....
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09Mar
An acceptance sampling question
This thread recently appeared in myASQ: Question by Aju: Hello Team, We have a situation where we did double sampling on Incoming parts from a Supplier(Machine shop). The lot...
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05Mar
It’s Time To Ditch the 1.5-Sigma Shift
One of Six Sigma’s most hotly debated features is the infamous 1.5-sigma shift. Here’s how it works. In Six Sigma we assume that the customer’s actual experience will be...
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04Mar
My First Certification
In the early 1970s I was a brand spanking new college graduate with a Bachelor’s Degree in Economics. Problem was, I didn’t much care for the field of economics....
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22Feb
Making Small Improvements is Harder Than You Think
I heard a speaker talking one time who said, “if you improve an organization’s productivity by 3 percent each month, you will double your productivity in 25 months.” He...
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