Category: Six Sigma Methodology

How can Six Sigma be used to improve “market forcasting,” which is essential for business planning?
Published:Where the idea of “process improvement” is concerned, it is now well understood that Six Sigma can play a most decisive role. Specifically, it can serve to significantly improve the process of market forecasting. For example, consider the instance where an organization attempts to deploy a certain type of ARIMA model from which to forecast […]
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Would a lead-time reduction project for an order fulfillment process be considered a Six Sigma project or a lean project?
Published:This is much like asking if you have ever been caught in a lie. No matter how you answer, the resulting conclusion will certainly not enhance your reputation – but will most assuredly harm it (perhaps even more so than currently exists). If you were to contend that your project should be garbed in the […]
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How can defense products be designed with Design for Six Sigma (DFSS), and can you provide an example?
Published:Generally speaking, we use DFSS to close value-based gaps during the design phase of a product, service, business deal, or just about anything that adds value. Of course, this is accomplished in such a way that another gap is not propagated somewhere else in time and space. In other words, we leverage the ideas and […]
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