Six Sigma in Gun Manufacturing and Production Companies?

June 11, 2012Comments Off

This topic has 5 voices, contains 9 replies, and was last updated by SpeedyT 331 days ago.

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June 11, 2012 at 10:38 am #182997
Joel Watts	Greetings, I am trying to find a comprehensive listing of Companies that utilize Six Sigma.My company is new to Six Sigma and we are trying to find if other companies in our industry are practicitioners.We are in the gun manufacting and production industry.
June 13, 2012 at 11:28 am #183132
cfb @CFB Reputation - 0 Rank - Aluminum	What do you plan to do with the information?
June 13, 2012 at 12:53 pm #183133
Michael Cyger @michaelcyger Reputation - 13399 Rank - Platinum	@ Joel Watts: We have research on the Fortune 1000 companies using Six Sigma. Fortune doesn’t have a “gun manufacting and production industry” listed. What is the larger industry that you belong to, or which of your competitors are Fortune 1000 companies (I’ll review our data from that perspective).
June 13, 2012 at 7:27 pm #183146
MBBinWI @MBBinWI Reputation - 2593 Rank - Titanium	Joel: While it might be interesting to know if your direct competitors are practicing 6s, LSS, or other CI methods, if you are looking to benchmark, I would look at machining/manufacturing companies. Lots of those.
June 14, 2012 at 2:11 pm #183164
Gomezadams @spazwhatsup Reputation - 89 Rank - Aluminum	If MBBinWI , Michael Cyger and I answer all your questions,can we get a discount on our firearm of choice?
June 17, 2012 at 9:43 pm #183221
MBBinWI @MBBinWI Reputation - 2593 Rank - Titanium	Only so long as it’s a private sale. No gov’t records on what I’m packin’.
June 19, 2012 at 3:15 pm #183294
Mike Carnell @Mike-Carnell Reputation - 3168 Rank - Titanium	Joel, I understand the question as long as it is within the framework of looking at your competition. Regardless if anyone does or does not use any particular methodology I would think it would be more important to assess the opportunity to manufacture at 100% efficiency and what can be done to close that gap. Maybe not completely or in one jump but you need to understand the size of the opportunity and have some type of commitment to improvement. There was a time when there were not any automotive manufacturers using SS then there was the first one. There was a time when there were no aircraft engine manufacturers using SS and then there was a first one. We have seen industry after industry claim that “they were different” and then suddenly there was an entire cottage industry dedicated to CI in that industry i.e. transaction companies, healthcare, etc. There are at least 3 people who post on this site that were working for a particular computer manufacturer that was “the best in the world” and we listened to the C suite people explain to us why SS/CI did not apply to them. They have been bought out and they have a SS program. All the people who did all the pain staking explainations with us cased their stock options and kai-yai’ed out of there. The point isn’t to be a Six Sigma company or a Lean company or a TQM company, etc. That would be a stupid goal. The point is to be efficient and effective. Protect your company and the jobs of the people that work for it. Just as a fyi I would be willing to work for unregistered weapons, even along side MBBinWI as long as it is a quality weapon. Just my opinion.
June 20, 2012 at 8:54 am #183323
MBBinWI @MBBinWI Reputation - 2593 Rank - Titanium	@Mike-Carnell – since Joel never registered, it’s hard to tell whether this is having any effect or not.
June 20, 2012 at 10:22 am #183326
Mike Carnell @Mike-Carnell Reputation - 3168 Rank - Titanium	@MBBinWI I caught that but just in case he is checking and there is an opportunity for a little sweat equity in some quality weapons.
June 25, 2012 at 10:59 am #183399
SpeedyT @tubofun Reputation - 18 Rank - Aluminum	Joel, as investigators of data, sometimes it can be fun to consider looking in a slightly different directions for your answer. If no single source of information exists for your answer, I have found you can learn a lot about a company by watching their job boards. The job desciptions usually will give you a good desciption of the goings on. By the detail of the ad too you can tell how well versed they are in the tribal knowledge.

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