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
- 5C
- 5Ps
- 5S
- 5Z
- 6 Ms
- 6W
- 7 QC Tools
- 7 Wastes of Lean
- 8 D 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
- Genchi Gembutsu
- General Linear Model (GLM)
- Glenday Sieve (GS)
- Global Commerce Initiative (GCI)
- Global Quality Tracking System (GQTS)
- Globalization
- Goal
- Goals, Roles, Processes, Interpersonal Relationships (GRPI)
- Goodman-Kruskal Gamma
- Green Belt
- Gwilliam Motivational Model
- Hanedashi
- Hard Savings
- Hawthorn Effect
- Heijunka
- Hidden Factory, The
- Histogram
- Homegeneity of Variance
- Hoshin Kanri
- House of Quality
- Hyper Micro Process Map
- Hypothesis Testing
- I-MR chart
- Ideation Brainstorming
- Identify, Design, Optimize, Validate (IDOV)
- In-Control
- Includes/Excludes
- Incoming Goods Inspection (IGI)
- Independent Variable
- Indirect Cost
- Inferential Statistics
- Information Communication Technology (ICT)
- Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL)
- Input-Process-Output (I-P-O)
- Inspection
- Inspection Plan
- Instant Pudding
- Intangible Benefits
- Interaction
- Interactional Data
- Interquartile Range
- Interquartile Range (IQR)
- Interrelationship Digraph
- Ishikawa, Ichiro
- ISO 9000 Series of Standards
- Jack in the Box
- Jidoka
- Just In Time (JIT) Manufacturing
- Kaikaku
- Kaizen
- Kaizen Blitz
- Kaizen Event
- Kanban
- Kano Analysis
- Kaplan-Meier
- Kappa
- Keep It Simple and Specific (KISS)
- Key Business Issue (KBI)
- Key Business Requirement (KBR)
- Key Performance Indicator (KPI)
- Key Process Input Variable (KPIV)
- Key Process Operating Variable (KPOV)
- Kirkpatrick Model of Evaluation
- KJ
- Knowledge-Based Community (KBC)
- Kruskal-Wallis
- Kurtosis
- L1 Spreadsheet
- L2 Spreadsheet
- Last in, First out (LIFO)
- Lead Time
- Lean Level of Buffering (LLB)
- Lean Manufacturing
- Leptokurtic Distribution
- Level of Buffering
- Levels
- Likert Scale
- Linear Relationship
- Linearity
- Little's Law
- Lot
- Lot Tolerance Percent Defective (LTPD)
- Low Hanging Fruit
- Lower Control Limit (LCL)
- Lower Specification Limit (LSL)
- Lurking Variable
- Machine Capability Index (Cmk)
- Main Effect
- Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award
- Mallows Statistic (C-p)
- Management
- Management by Knowledge
- Mann-Whitney
- Master Black Belt
- Master Production Schedule (MPS)
- Material Requirements Planning (MRP)
- Mean
- Mean Time Between Failures (MTBF)
- Mean Time to Repair (MTTR)
- Measurement System Analysis (MSA)
- Median
- MEDIC
- Metricationist
- Metrics
- Mid Rank
- Mode
- Modular Arrangements of Predetermined Time Standards (MODAPTS)
- Mood's Median Test
- Muda
- Multi Generational Product Planning (MGPP)
- Multi-Vari Chart
- Multicolinearity
- Multiple Regression
- Mura
- Muri
- Natural Tolerances
- Network Diagram
- Noise
- Nominal
- Nominal Data
- Nominal Group Technique
- Non-Conformity
- Non-Parametric
- Non-Parametric Test
- Normal Distribution
- Normal Probability
- Normality Test
- NORMSINV
- Null Hypothesis (Ho)
- Objective Evidence
- O'Brien Effect
- Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)
- One Piece Flow
- Operation Cost Target (OCT)
- Operational Cost
- Operational Definition
- Operations Process
- Opportunity
- Opportunity Creation
- Optimization
- Ordinal Data
- Ordinal Data Type
- Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM)
- Out of Control Action Plan (OCAP)
- Outlier
- Output
- Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE)
- Ownership
- P-Value
- Paired T-Test
- Pareto
- Part Submission Warrant (PSW)
- Parts Per Million (PPM)
- Pass Through Characteristic (PTC)
- Passion for Action (PFA)
- Passive Data
- Paynter Chart
- Pearson's Correlation
- Percent of Tolerance
- Pi
- Plan, Do, Study, Act (PDSA)
- Platykurtic Distribution
- Poisson Distribution
- Poka-Yoke
- Pooled Standard Deviation
- Population
- Population Defect Rate
- Positive Correlation
- Ppk
- Practice
- Precision
- Predetermined Motion Time System (PMTS)
- Prediction Band (or Prediction Interval)
- Prevention Cost
- Preventive Action
- Price Recovery
- Primary Metrics
- Probability
- Probability of Defect
- Procedures
- Process
- Process Acceptance Certificate
- Process Baseline
- Process Capability
- Process Capability Index
- Process Control
- Process Control Plan
- Process Cycle Efficiency (PCE)
- Process Decision Program Charts (PDPC)
- Process Design Requirements
- Process Entitlement
- Process Failure Modes Effects Analysis (PFMEA)
- Process Indicator
- Process Instance
- Process Management
- Process Maturity
- Process Measurables
- Process Owner
- Process Performance Management
- Process Sign Off (PSO)
- Process Stability
- Process Window Index (PWI)
- Producers Risk
- Product
- Production Part Approval Process (PPAP)
- Production Preparation Schedule (PPS)
- Productivity
- Productivity Target
- Profession
- Project Management Professional (PMP)
- Project Nomination
- Project Process
- Project Return on Investment (ROI)
- Project Scope
- Project Selection
- Pugh Matrix
- Pull System
- Q1
- Q3
- QS-9000
- Qualitative Data
- Quality
- Quality Assurance
- Quality Assurance Schedule (QAS)
- Quality Attribute
- Quality Control
- Quality Control Manager (QCM)
- Quality Dictionary
- Quality Function Deployment (QFD)
- Quality Improvement
- Quality Management
- Quality Operating System (QOS)
- Quality Procrastination
- Quality Program Report (QPR)
- Quality Record
- Quality Target
- Quantifiers
- Quantitative Data
- Quantitative Variable
- Queuing Theory
- Quorum
- R
- R-Square
- R-Square Adjusted
- Radar Chart
- Radian
- Random Sample
- Random Sampling
- Random Variation
- Randomization
- Range
- Rare Event SPC
- Ratchet Device
- Rational Subgroup
- Red X
- Reengineering
- Regression
- Rejectable Quality Level (RQL)
- Reliability
- Repeatability
- Replicates
- Replication
- Reproducibility
- Residual
- Resolution
- Response
- Responsibility
- Result Measurables
- Return on Investment (ROI)
- Return on Net Assets (RONA)
- Rework
- Risk Based Inspection (RBI)
- Risk Based Maintenance (RBM)
- Risk Priority Number (RPN)
- Robust
- Robust Process
- Robustness
- Rolled Throughput Yield (RTY)
- Root Cause
- Root Cause Analysis
- Root Cause and Failure Analysis (RCFA)
- Run Chart
- Run Rate
- Runs Test
- S-hat Model
- Sample
- Sample Size Calculator
- Sampling
- Saturated Design
- SCAMPER
- Scatter Plot
- Scatterplot
- Scope
- Scorecard
- SCOT Analysis
- Screening DOE
- Scrum
- Scrum Master
- Segmentation
- Sensitivity
- Ship Date
- Short-Run SPC
- Sigma
- Sigma Level
- Simple Linear Regression
- Single Minute Exchange of Die (SMED)
- Six Sigma
- Six Sigma Body of Knowledge (SSBOK)
- Six Sigma Strategy
- Skewness
- SMART
- SMARTER
- Soft Savings
- Software Inspection
- Software Inspection Plan
- Spaghetti Diagram
- Span
- Special Cause
- Special Cause Variation
- Specification
- Spread
- SS Process Report
- SS Product Report
- Stability
- Stable Process
- Stakeholder
- Stakeholder Analysis
- Standard Deviation
- Standard Operating Sheet (SOS)
- Standard Order
- Standard Work
- Standardized Residual
- Statistic
- Statistical Process Control (SPC)
- Statistical Significance
- Statistical Thinking
- Statistics
- Stem and Leaf Plot
- Strategic Planning
- Stratification
- Sub-Group
- Subgrouping
- Subject Matter
- Subject Matter Expert (SME)
- Subjective Rating and Ranking
- Sufficiency
- Supplier Request for Engineering Approval (SREA)
- Suppliers, Inputs, Process, Output, Customers (SIPOC)
- Supply Chain Management
- SWOT Analysis
- System Audit
- System of Profound Knowledge (SoPK)
- Systems Engineering
- Systems Thinking
- T Statistic
- T-test
- T Test
- Taguchi Method
- Takt Time
- TEAM
- Team Capacity
- Team Leader
- Telecosm
- The Theory of Inventive Problem Solving (TRIZ)
- Theory of constraints (TOC)
- Thought Process Map (TMAP)
- Throughput
- Thulla
- Time Value Map
- Tolerance Range
- Tollgate
- Total Observed Variation
- Total Prob of Defect
- Total Productive Maintenance (TPM)
- Total Quality Management (TQM)
- Total Value Management (TVM)
- Toyota Production System (TPS)
- Transfer Function Y=f(X)
- Transformations
- Tree Diagram
- Trend Analysis
- Trend Charts
- Tribal Knowledge
- Trimmed Mean
- Trivial many
- TRIZ
- Tukey's (1-way ANOVA)
- Turn Around Time (TAT)
- Type I Error
- Type II Error
- U Chart
- Unbiased Statistic
- Unexplained Variation (S)
- Unintended Consequences
- Unit
- Univariate
- Upper Control Limit (UCL)
- Upper Specification Limit (USL)
- Value
- Value-Added
- Value Stream
- Value Stream Mapping
- Variable
- Variable Data
- Variance
- Variance Inflation Factor (VIF)
- Variation
- Variation (Common Cause)
- Variation (Special Cause)
- Visual Controls
- Visual Quality Document (VQD)
- Vital Few
- Voice of the Business (VOB)
- Voice of the Customer (VOC)
- Voice of the Employee (VOE)
- Voice of the Process (VOP)
- Warning Limits
- Waste
- Web-Based Technology (WBT)
- Web Chart(tm)
- Whisker
- White Noise
- Wilcoxon Rank Sum Test
- Work Cell
- Work in Process (WIP)
- World-Class Quality
- X
- X Bar
- X-Bar and R Charts
- Y
- Y = f(X)
- Yellow Belt (YB)
- Yield
- Z
- Z bench
- Z lt
- Z Score
- Z Shift
- Z st
- Zadj
- Zero Defects