Recent advancement in the manufacturing techniques and increased demand of quality products necessitate the use of error reduction techniques. Six sigma developed as such error reduction technique that broaden the limits of quality in order to reduce defects up to 3.4 million per opportunities. Origin of six sigma by Motorola industry proven as the quality assurance technique and validated over...

Six sigma for small-and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) is an emerging topic among many academics and Six Sigma practitioners over the last two to three years. Very few studies have been reported about the successful applications of Six Sigma in SMEs. Main objective of this paper is to examine the extent of usefulness of a simpler but not very frequently used methodology known as the Shainin me...

Six Sigma as a quality improvement framework has been gaining considerable attention in recent years. The hyperbole that often accompanied the presentation and adoption of Six Sigma in industry could lead to unrealistic expectations as to what Six Sigma is truly capable of achieving. In this paper, some strategic perspectives on the subject are presented, highlighting the potential and possible...

Der Beitrag befasst sich mit der Umsetzung des aus dem industriellen Kontext stammenden Prozessverbesserungsansatzes Six Sigma in der Softwareentwicklung. Um den Rahmenbedingungen der Softwareentwicklung gerecht zu werden, muss Six Sigma größtenteils durch Analogien und bereits vorhandene Ansätze in der Softwareentwicklung adaptiert werden. Hierauf wird einzeln für jede Phase des Six Sigma-Vorg...

Large scale Indian manufacturers started implementing Six Sigma to their supply core to fulfill the endless need of high quality products. As well, they initiated encouraging their suppliers to apply the well-ascertain SS management practice and kept no resource for supplier enterprises, generally small midsized enterprises to think for the admittance of Six Sigma as a quality promotion drive. ...

BACKGROUND The project selection process is a crucial step for healthcare organizations at the moment of implementing six sigma programs in both administrative and caring processes. However, six-sigma project selection is often defined as a decision making process with interaction and feedback between criteria; so that it is necessary to explore different methods to help healthcare companies to...

The purpose of this paper is to explore the methodology that has adopted to implement PBL in textile engineering education at “Lucian Blaga” University of Sibiu (LBUS) which also highlights its potential influence on Six Sigma projects that has implemented in a textile manufacturing industry. The function of both PBL and Six Sigma approaches is to solve the problems by executing projects in a s...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to present a study of how Six Sigma influences job satisfaction among employees at three large companies with manufacturing units in Sweden that have used different implementation strategies. Design/methodology/approach – The study was performed using a survey distributed to those affected by the implementation at the three company sites, including those n...

Overall operational excellence is the key requirement of any business to have global competence and sustained growth. Indian industries are not the exception to this. Six Sigma has emerged as one of the most effective business improvement strategies worldwide. Nothing much has been published so far illustrating an overall experience of Indian industries with Six Sigma. This paper presents an an...

Probabilistic design to address uncertainty and variability has been approached from many different angles, by different communities. While reliability methods focus on probability of constraint satisfaction or violation, robust design methods have focused primarily on the level of performance variation, the sensitivity of design objectives. “Six Sigma” quality concepts have arisen more recentl...