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Need help to start a Six Sigma Program? Six Sigma Programs include the fundamental elements:
Define For a manufacturing project you might consider the following functions to be included in each Six Sigma improvement element: Define: establish a meeting agenda tool, define your team members and responsibilities, define your project, improvement goals and benefits, define the critical to quality (CTQ) Customer and process requirements, Brainstorm the problems, define the measurements that will report the benefits of the improvements, define the milestones and communication plan, produce a SIPOC diagram (suppliers, inputs, process, output and customers), flowchart the process and determine action items
Measure: define the part, component or assembly's defect opportunities
(DPMO) and unit of measure (metric), produce a Pareto chart, determine
where and when data should be collected, develop a plan to collect data, perform Gage
Reproducibility and Repeatability Study (GR&R) to validate the
measurement system, develop an XY Matrix to correlate input and output
elements (the XY matrix can be used to help identify a target for the
Failure Modes and Effects Analysis [FMEA] or it can be used to identify
the initial factors for a designed experiment [DOE]), perform
Capability Analyses and establish six sigma metric, produce FMEA and/or
initial DOE Plan Analyze: Brainstorm performance objectives, produce Cause and Effect diagram, identify value-added and non-value-added functions on the process flowchart, determine key variables and finalize the XY Matrix
Improve: Brainstorm possible solutions and build a consensus, flowchart
the revised process, collect data, error-proof the revised process,
produce FMEA for possible solutions, revise DOE Plan and perform DOE Control: collect data and produce control charts for key variables, finalize Capability Analyses, develop continuous improvement plan and transfer to process owners, produce a summary of the cost and savings of the improvements and close project
Typical Six Sigma Implementation Plan [19KB] For a service project you might consider the following functions to be included in each Six Sigma improvement element: Define: establish a meeting agenda tool, define your team members and responsibilities, define your project, improvement goals and benefits, define the critical to quality (CTQ) Customer and process requirements, Brainstorm the problems, define the measurements that will report the benefits of the improvements, flowchart the process, define the milestones and communication plan, produce a SIPOC diagram (suppliers, inputs, process, output and customers) and determine action items
Measure: Voice of the Customer (VOC) surveys and summaries from the past
six months, produce an Attribute Gage R&R, produce a Pareto Chart,
determine where and when data should be collected, develop a plan to
collect data, develop an XY Matrix to correlate input and output
elements (the XY matrix can be used to help identify a target for the
Failure Modes and Effects Analysis [FMEA] or it can be used to identify
the initial factors for a designed experiment [DOE]), establish six
sigma metric, produce FMEA and/or initial DOE Plan Analyze: Brainstorm performance objectives, produce Cause and Effect diagram and Force Field analysis, identify value-added and non-value-added functions on the process flowchart, determine key variables and finalize the XY Matrix
Improve: Brainstorm where to focus improvement efforts, flowchart the
revised process, collect data, error-proof the revised process, produce FMEA
for possible solutions, revise DOE Plan and perform DOE Control: develop continuous improvement plan and transfer to process owners, collect data and control chart the number of Customer complaints, produce a summary of the cost and savings of the improvements and close project
Typical Six Sigma Implementation Plan [19KB]
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