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Hi Bower,I am interested also with a copy of your excel spreadsheet that calculates the value of d2..My email address: [email protected]

Hi Bower,
Could you please also send me the summary? I have done some work around data entry errors and would be interested in reading it.
Thanks,
Daniel.
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Dear Vikas
Request you to please give me your personal email ID so that we can discuss our personal experiences of trying to deploy six sigma in investment banks.
Regards
Daniel

We calculate attrition on a trailing 12 month basis every month
% attrition =  No of people leaving in last 12 months count  / (Head count 12 months back + No of people joining in last 12 months)
Hope this helps
Regards
Daniel

Hi Jan
I have purchased the training material from OSS and I find it very useful.
As you said that there are no perfectly good trainiing materiials, the OSS training modules will definitely be of great help if you don’t want to develop one right from scratch, but just do some tweaking on it. It is available for just around $100 which I don’…[Read more]

Hi Don,
The %’s are based on total # of all respondents.
Cheers,
Daniel.

This Black Belt training program has missed the most important component of Six Sigma; the ability to apply the tools learned in the classroom and complete projects which deliver measurable business impacts. I was Black Belt certified by GE, I was in the Black Belt role for two years before certification. I think a Black Belt certification ac…[Read more]

Hi Dave
I really appreciate your thought process, but I have seen many top firms refusing to even call people for an interview if they do not have a certification without really assessing them in the way you have described.
Is there any way I can get in touch with you and know you better. Pls do reply with your email address

Hi Stanly
Have you gone through the course yourself ?  pls let me know.
Thanks
 
 

this would create the problem that you have to cut this certain percentage from the savings of the following projects which may not fully calculated yet or which will lead to confusing calculations.
i’m struggeling with this problem as well, usually we call those ‘enabler’ projects ‘umbrella projects’ and so we can avoid the savings discussion.…[Read more]

W. G.I work in the City of London and I thought you might be interested in the following headline on the BBC’s website.”Bank of America has revealed that it will have to write off $3bn (£1.4bn) of bad debts and warned that its losses could grow.”I also found this quotation on this website. “When the program was first introduced, some employees…[Read more]

a) Deal with the other manager by having your goals to mirror the DC goals. keep it business reletive
b) Work with your HR people to set,communicate ,follow up the SOP’s.
c) Accountability by management to follow the SOP’s needs to be monitored by HR create a Fairness Doctrine
d) Explain to the associates the benifits ,make them a part of t…[Read more]

Kikka,
In any NPD process using stage gate methodoloy, I have always found the gates to be relatively the same but the actual tools and deliverables may change for the different types of project. For instance, the first gate invariably has the objective of ensuring that the customer’s needs are clearly stated (in requirements and not…[Read more]

From Minitab’s Knowledgebase:
http://www.minitab.com/support/answers/answer.aspx?ID=1026
 

I have non normal service time data. As you can imagine it’s skewed to the left. The data transforms well using the natural log (LN).
I have a process target/mean that I want to calculate upper and lower spec limits for based on a Cp of 1.33.
Can I the usl and lsl limit by using the sigma of the transformed data.
For example use the…[Read more]

This should help you learn more about 6s:
http://users.bigpond.net.au/SixSigmaFallacies/
 

Pls send AQL 2.5 & 4 table & new update, including sample lot size and max. defects standards. thanks

Hi Adrian,
 
thanks for your fast detailed answer – great, great really great! Now I got a clearer understanding (and view) of possible next steps.
I have a meeting with my project sponsor tomorrow.
One quick question: Does Six Sigma view on processes from a customer point of view?
 
Correct me if I’m wrong but are the customers of that in…[Read more]

Thank you all for the responses…. I’ve taken some notes to think about.
To Mike.. as how much of the process was skipped…. to put things in a practical example….. assume you have component “X”… you know that is warranty life is 3 years… and data has shown you can still squeeze one more year.. for a total of 4….. so, basically say……[Read more]