Below are Lean and Six Sigma dictionary definitions for frequently used vocabulary within projects.
- 1-Sample Sign Test
- 2-Sample t-Test
- 3P
- 5 Whys
- 5Ps
- 5Z
- 5C
- 5S
- 6S
- 6W
- 6 Ms
- 7 Wastes of Lean
- 7 QC Tools
- 8D Process
- 8 Wastes of Lean
- A-square
- Acceptable Quality Level (AQL)
- Acceptance Number
- Accessory Planning
- Accountability
- Accuracy
- Active Data
- Activity Based Costing (ABC)
- Advanced Product Quality Planning (APQP)
- Affinity Diagram
- Agile
- Alias
- Alpha Risk
- Alternative Hypothesis (Ha)
- Analysis of Variance (ANOVA)
- Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP)
- Analytical Modeling
- Anderson-Darling Normality Test
- Appraisal Cost
- ARMI (Approver, Resource, Member, Interested Party)
- Artisan Process
- Assignable Cause
- Attribute Data
- Attribution Theory
- Audit
- Authority
- Autocorrelation
- Automated Process
- Availability
- Average Incoming Quality
- Average Outgoing Quality
- B10 Life
- Back-Date
- Balanced Experiment
- Balanced Scorecard
- Baldrige, Malcolm
- Bar Chart
- Bartlett Test
- Baseline
- Baselining
- Benchmarking
- Best Practice
- Beta Risk
- Bias
- Big 'Q'
- Bimodal Distribution
- Binomial Distribution
- Binomial Random Variable
- Black Belt
- Black Noise
- Blended Learning
- Blocking
- Box-Cox Transformation
- Box Plot
- Brainstorming
- Breakthrough Improvement
- Buffer
- Bug
- Business as Usual (BAU)
- Business Impact Analysis (BIA)
- Business Metric
- Business Process Management System (BPMS)
- Business Process Quality Management
- Business Requirements
- Business Risk Management (BRM)
- Business Value Added
- C-Level
- Calibration
- Capability
- Capability Analysis
- Capability Maturity Model (CMM)
- Capacity
- Capacity Constraint Resource (CCR)
- Cause
- Cause and Effect Diagram
- Center
- Center Points
- Central Limit Theorem
- Central Tendency
- Certified Six Sigma Black Belt (CSSBB)
- Chaku Chaku
- Champion
- Change Acceleration Process (CAP)
- Change Agent
- Change Management
- Characteristic
- Characteristic Selection Matrix (CSM)
- Charter
- Check Sheet
- Chi Square Test
- Circumstance
- Clean Point
- Cmk
- COC
- Coefficient of Variation
- Common Cause
- Common Cause Variation
- Communication
- Competitive Advantage
- CONC
- Concept Engineering
- Concomitant Variable
- Condition
- Confidence Band (or Interval)
- Confidence Interval
- Confidence Level
- Confirmation
- Confounding
- Consequential Metrics
- Consumers Risk
- Containment
- Contingency Table
- Continuous
- Continuous Data
- Continuous Improvement (CI)
- Control
- Control Chart
- Control Limits
- Control Plan
- Convert DPMO/Sigma to Cpk
- COPC
- Correction
- Correction versus Corrective Action
- Corrective Action
- Corrective Action Report (CAR)
- Corrective and Preventive Action (CAPA)
- Correlation
- Correlation Coefficient (r)
- Cost Model
- Cost of Conformance (COC)
- Cost of Non-Conformance (CONC)
- Cost of Poor Quality (COPQ)
- Cost of Quality (COQ)
- Cost Target
- Covariate
- Cp
- Cpk
- Critical Business Requirement (CBR)
- Critical Element
- Critical to Customer (CTC)
- Critical to Quality (CTQ)
- Current Reality Tree
- Customer
- Customer Focus
- Customer, Output, Process, Input, Supplier (COPIS)
- Customer Relationship Management (CRM)
- Customer Requirements
- Cusum Chart
- Cycle Time
- D-MAGICS
- Dashboard
- Dashboard Examples
- Data
- Datsu Chaku
- Decision Rights Owner
- Defect
- Defective
- Defects (%)
- Defects Per Million Opportunities (DPMO)
- Defects per Opportunity (DPO)
- Defects per Unit (DPU)
- Define, Measure, Analyze, Design, Verify (DMADV)
- Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, Control (DMAIC)
- Define, Measure, Explore, Develop, Implement (DMEDI)
- Definition of Quality
- Degree of Freedom
- Degrees of Freedom (DF)
- Deming Cycle, PDCA
- Deming's 14 Points
- Dependent Variable
- Descriptive Statistics
- Design Failure Mode and Effect Analysis (DFMEA)
- Design for Six Sigma (DFSS)
- Design of Experiments (DOE)
- Design Risk Assessment
- Design Verification, Production and Process Validation (DVP&PV)
- Detectable Effect Size
- Directive
- Discrete Data
- Dispersion
- Distribution
- DMAIC
- Document
- DOE
- DOTWIMP
- Douglass Index
- Drift
- Dunnett's 1-way ANOVA
- Effect
- Efficacy
- Efficiency
- Empirical Rule
- Empowerment
- Encryption
- Engineer Change Order (ECO)
- Engineering Change Request (ECR)
- Engineering Sample Evaluation Report (ESER)
- Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)
- Entitlement
- Entry Criteria
- Erroneous
- Error
- Error Cause Removal
- Error Mode Effects Analysis (EMEA)
- Error (Type I)
- Error (Type II)
- Exit Criteria
- Exponentially Weighted Moving Average (EWMA)
- Extract Load Transfer (ELT)
- F-Chart
- F test
- F-value (ANOVA)
- Facilitate
- Factor
- Fagan Style Software Inspection
- Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA)
- Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards (FMVSS)
- Fenwick-vanKoesveld Test
- Financial Metrics
- Find, Organize, Clarify, Understand, Select (FOCUS - PDCA)
- First In, First Out (FIFO)
- First in Still Here (FISH)
- First Time Yield (FTY)
- Fishbone Diagram
- Fisher's (1-way ANOVA)
- Fits
- Fitted value
- Flowchart
- FMEA
- Force Field Analysis
- Form/Format
- Fractional Factorial DOE
- Frequency Plot
- Frequently Committed Errors (FCE)
- Full Factorial DOE
- Function Analysis System Technique (FAST)
- Gage R&R
- Gantt Chart
- Gap Analysis
- Gating
- Gemba