David Oakley

Kyadari
You will have to provide a lot more information before anyone can help you. In need to take time with your post to make sure that it is accurate. For example, were you asking about date or data?
What is your assignment and what is your background?
David

Ronald
What I am trying (which hasn’t worked yet) is to volunteer at a hospital. In six months I have had two positions and will start a third next week. Each assignment has gotten me closer to the job that I’m trying to get. It is also giving me an increasing number of people that are working trying to get me hired. I am getting a lot of…[Read more]

Aidan
My first question would be did you just start discovering that you had batch record errors or did the rate suddenly go up. If it suddenly went up, I would determine what changed that casued it to go up.
In my opinion, it is always better to go after the procedures rather than the people. As an example, there was a case where certain people…[Read more]

Larry
 
I have never seen the case where there was truly only one operator. In some cases, I didn’t find out about the other operators until after I had done the R&R. I then had to go back and redo the study. Now that will really turn off people.
 
If you have bad data, your data analysis part of SS will lead to bad conclussions. In that c…[Read more]

Mortez
 
I always have more than one operator. In some cases, I have been one of the operators. In that way, you get data that will tell you if the operator will make a difference.
 
Those times when I was told that there was only one operator, that was always wrong. Operators take vacation, get sick, act as leads, give or recieve training a…[Read more]

Tim
 
I’m glad that you are thinking about it. It is very frequently ignored and usually the project suffers. You can however, go to far to the other extreme and get so bogged down in human factors that you never complete the project. You should get input from as many people as you can. But then you have to be able to find the useful stuff and…[Read more]

Tim
 
To keep from writing a book, I left a lot of things out. The internal and external customers were involved at all stages of the project. There were certain laws, regulations, and agencies were also taken into consideration. There were problems with other departments within the company and they were also dealt with.
 
David

Charles
I started using Six Sigma in the mid 80’s. I was laid off earlier this year. In my resume and elevator speech I list the training that I have had, some of the projects that I have done and the total confirmed savings of the projects.
 
I recently took a class and obtained a Six Sigma Green Belt. I’m now getting more responses from job…[Read more]

Julie
I had a Six Sigma project that involved a cleaning system. Samples were taken after they had been cleaned. The samples were cleaned with a very strong solvent and the solvent was captured. The solvent was then evaperated and what was left was weighed. This was the material that hadn’t been removed by the cleaning process.
 
Do you come…[Read more]

Tim
What about Six Sigma Divine Wind?
 
David

Dan
There is an old programming saying “Garbage in, garbage out”. Lots of metrics doesn’t assure that nay improvement is going to occur. One of the basic concepts of Six Sigma is that is customer orientated. In your case, it seems that who the customer is pretty clear. The next thing is what is most important to the customer. For a distributer,…[Read more]

DaveG
 
When I was doing my research on getting the Black Belt I didn’t think about ASQ. I will look into that.
 
Thanks
 
David

VB
 
Thanks for your reply. I’m not giving up but I am changing my focus. I had been looking for manufacturing engineering positions. A couple of weeks ago, I discovered that a lot of non-manufacturing companies are getting into Six Sigma. That opens up some new possibilities for me. My resume is a list of successfull projects and the amount of…[Read more]

VB
 
Thank you for the offer. I’m in Atlanta and not wanting to relocate at this time. Does your recruiter have anything in the area?
 
The first Six Sigma classes that I took were before the belt thing got started. My last employer wouldn’t pay for any training. I got the Green Belt on my own but the cost of a Black Belt course would be k…[Read more]

Jim
 
This isn’t a real good time to be trying to change jobs. On the other hand it might be a real good time to be getting out of manufacturing.
 
The best way to land a job is through talking to people and tell them what you are looking for. If you don’t belong to any profesional societies, join a couple. Be active in your profesional s…[Read more]

Paul
 
There is a new one every year. Deming and Conway had their own systems. Then there is 5S, Total Quality Management, ISO, Management by Objectives, Quality Circles,Continuous Improvement, SPC, and Kaizan. There have been others that escape me at the moment. There was one with an arrow in a bulls eye that was quality something or other.…[Read more]

Anthony
 
Six Sigma is supposed to be customer focused. Who is the customer for your department? What are the most important things to that customer? Of those, which is the customer the least pleased with? How can you measure the departments performance to that customer requirement? That’s all there is to it.
 
David

Cris
 
Do a search on Google for Six Sigma Report. I did that a few weeks ago and got several thousand hits. Out of the first few hundred, I got several large service type companies with some information on how hey implimented and what results they have reported.
 
David

The equations for standard deviation can be found in any text book on statistics, SPC, or Six Sigma. Also, there are ways of estimating standard deviation that were used before calculators and desk top computers existed.
 
As I said before, short term variability is your present data. Long term variability is your projection of what will occur…[Read more]

Short term deviation is what would occur during a period of observation such as a day, week, or month. Long term deviation is what would occur over a long period of time such as a year. Long term deviation is assumed to be greater than short term deviation.
 
A robust design would have the short term deviation exceeding requirements so that the…[Read more]