Six Sigma Explained In Six Steps- The Details Behind The Glitz And Glam
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by: Craig Calvin
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Date: Wed, 30 Dec 2009 Time: 10:31 AM
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If you are looking to improve the quality of the products your business produces, no matter what the products may be, then Six Sigma can help. Six Sigma is a set of processes and tools that you can use within your business to help eliminate defects within your processes, and improve quality, which should help increase your profits. But in order to properly implement Six Sigma within your business you need to have extensive training so you understand how to properly implement the process and use the tools. If you think Six Sigma could be beneficial to your business, here is a quick overview to provide a better understanding.
Six Sigma will only work if everyone in the organization is committed to making it work, especially the senior management, or owners of your business. Implementing Six Sigma is not an easy process, and it will take some time at first, but it has proven to be beneficial to business in the long run, so you need to make sure you have the support you need in order to make this effort successful. You will also need to invest in training for employees to implement Six Sigma, and it may be wise to hire some consultants with Six Sigma experience to assist you until you have the needed experience, which will most likely also require the approval of your senior management.
After your upper management has guaranteed their support for a Six Sigma effort, the next step is to include the employees of the business in the process. The employees of the business do not all need to be on the Six Sigma project team, but you should try to get as much information from them, especially feedback and opinions as to what the problems are and what solutions they would recommend. The Six Sigma project will eventually lead to changes in your business, and if the employees feel like they were involved, or had a say in what changes are eventually implemented they will be less resistant to these changes.
When the Six Sigma project starts the first step is to define what process you are looking to improve, and why. You will need to collect as much raw data as possible related to the number of defects, what types of defects they are, and any other data you can collect. Once the data is collected it needs to be quantified, or turned into numeric values that can represent different types of defects, so it can be properly analyzed. Six Sigma makes use of many statistical tools to analyze the quantitative data which will provide a more accurate picture of where the problems are, and what the underlying problems may be. You cannot begin to determine a change plan without first being sure that you going to change the process that truly need it.
Once you have crunched all of your numbers, and determined what the underlying problems are, you can work on finding a solution to your problems. This is where the knowledge of your business plays an important role. A Six Sigma project requires an extensive knowledge of the Six Sigma process and your business to be successful. After you have come up with a solution, and implemented that solution, Six Sigma can help you measure the impact that your changes have had on your processes, which can confirm that you made the right decision, or possibly expose another problem in your process. Six Sigma is a very detailed and thorough process which may be complicated and take some time to implement properly, but in the end it will be worth it for your business.
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