Month: June 2012

Editor’s note: A follow-up article features three specific examples of gemba walks. With so many tools available to a continuous improvement professional, it is easy to get overwhelmed and consequently focus on a narrow grouping of tools. Experience expands the practitioner’s toolbox, but sometimes it is just as important to return to the foundations to […]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE For more information, contact: Michelle Matschke [email protected] (203) 267-3445 Southbury, CT (June 18, 2012) – Juran Institute is pleased to announce that Brian Swayne has joined our team as an Executive Vice President of Business Development and Executive Coach.  Mr. Swayne will lead the business development process, including marketing and sales, as well […]

ZPI Inc. has partnered with Operational Excellence® experts Global Productivity Solutions (GPS) to provide customers with a truly guaranteed performance improvement solution. Global Productivity Solutions (GPS) are experts in achieving performance breakthrough. GPS consultants have industry-leading experience in data analytics that help companies in their pursuit of Operational Excellence. The ZPI Enterprise Manufacturing Diagnostic suite helps […]

Most people know what it means to improve a process, but which improvement methodology is best for your organization: Lean, Six Sigma, theory of constraints (TOC), PDCA (plan, do, check, act) or another framework? Joe De Feo, CEO of the Juran Institute, has worked with thousands of organizations to implement every process improvement methodology from […]

Nobody knows what the future holds, but a shared uncertainty about tomorrow creates a forward-leaning opportunity for reinvention. Future-ready reengineering helps companies move from doing what is most effective today to meeting tomorrow’s challenges.

Hello iSixSigma readers! We are working on an article about gage R&R and need your help with data collection for analysis. What we need: Raw data itself (either 5-part or 10-part analyses including operators, parts, trials and measurements) The tolerance spread Is this one- or two-sided tolerance What we would like: Gage family information (e.g., […]

The following question has been posed on many Internet discussion forums: Has anyone poka-yoked a computer-aided design (CAD) system? The goal of poka-yoke, or mistake-proofing, is to design a process or mechanism that prevents an error from occurring. In the world of machine and industrial design, CAD systems are one of the best forms of […]