Marvin

just as i have suspected, nobody here knows how to calculate process shifts. And i am not even saying it must be 1.5 (come on, why must it be 1.5? Every process is different). All i am saying is, some of you people like to talk about things you know nothing about. If you cant even calculate the shift, stop talking about it.

actually i have a challenge for all you “in the know” folks here. Explain how shift is really calculated. Give a mathematical example. I would ask an MBB this if i want to hire him or her.

I don’t understand why six sigma folks bother about short term sigma at all. Doesn’t the customer actually experience the long term and not the short term? Why bother to compensate for shifts? Just report it as it is.

what do u mean by successfully? haha. GE Money. But they are going bust i think.

Shree,
Don’t you just mean the house of quality? You wouldn’t do a full QFD on the vendors. Instead, you would label your wants on one axis and the vendors on the other axis. You would then quantify every vendor against each want (the vendors would all be relative then). Each want is also assigned a weighting. A final score per vendor can then be…[Read more]