ISO

I have not experienced a SS deployment where they treat the deployment as a set of tools. I did see that with TQM and agree it probably still exists in pockets but do not believe SS will survive if thinking reverts back towards the TQM days of thinking. I have only worked SS as an end-to-end; customer-to-customer approach. Tools with no direction…[Read more]

Ok Scott, fair response, can you provide an example of how you have locked down your control with ISO?
Are you inferring that the SS control phase is incomplete? Perhaps we need to modify Control phase to build in the ISO best practices you’re applying. Are they best practices? How?
I am unclear as to what ISO elements your packing into that…[Read more]

Brandon, I was responding to AF’s comments and not looking to battle with you. What would make you think I was looking for a battle?
We do have different opinions regarding SS, while I agree that SS projects can be done at a micro level, they can also be done at macro level too. Control plans are not the only output of a Control Phase, there are…[Read more]

Why do we need ISO to sustain when Six Sigma provides a more rigorous Control Phase?

Doc, don’t you think that management responsibilities, design systems, purchasing, document control, auditing, corrective actions all have continuous improvement opportunities? I think ISO needs to understand that Six Sigma methods are not a slide of the pie but instead its backbone.

Herb, No. The idea is not to create a mandate but a framework that allows to integrate the practices of quality control and assurance with quality improvements in the pre-analytical and post-analytical processes. If you look at the recent changes to the CAP standards in the US, CAP is looking more and more into pre- and post-analytical p…[Read more]

Britw, the idea is not to create a “superbody” with additional paperwork, but to integrate the various standards into a global framework. Global here literally means encompassing the standards of the EU, which is primarily driven by ISO and the US, which is primarily driven by CAP, AABB etc. with the standards of other key countries such as In…[Read more]

Resurface = to move from the back to the front

AABB = American Association of Blood Bankers
CAP = College of American Pathologists
JCHAO = Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Systems
 

AABB Standards?
CAP Standards?

Britw., it may be of interest to you that the certification bodies for healthcare are currently working on integrating the various CAP, AABB standards etc. under the umbrella of the international ISO standards. Within this framework, Lean and Six Sigma will become integrated as the process improvement methodology to support the pre- and…[Read more]

I’m taking a shot here cause of your name but do you have an ISO and lean six sigma roadmap?