Category Archives: Quality Assurance

Spaghetti Charts


Spaghetti Charts Every Black Belt must learn how to draw a spaghetti chart for a process The spaghetti chart will help understand the physical process map (where, things actually move in the system physically) and not necessarily just the value … Continue reading

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Lean-An Overview


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Value Stream Mapping (VSM)


Value Stream Mapping (VSM) Value stream mapping (VSM) is a very powerful tool that helps in identifying the wastes and moving from the current state process to a future state process. It must always be preceded by rigorous Genchi Genbutsu which … Continue reading

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Role of Communication and Selection Criteria in Black Belt


Black Belt Role Defines the role of Six Sigma Black Belt Holder A Black Belt’s primary role is to help the Green Belt and Six Sigma teams to deliver successful project. Black Belt needs to handle obstacles and help the … Continue reading

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Overview of Continuous Improvement


Continual Improvement Process Continual improvement process or CIP is a steady effort made to improve existing processes, products, or services Delivery processes are evaluated against efficiency, effectiveness, and flexibility William Edwards Deming quotes, “CIP is a part of the system, … Continue reading

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Force Field Analysis


Conceived by Kurt Lewin. The thought – “An issue is held in balance by interaction of two opposing sets of forces – those that seek to promote change and those that seek to maintain status qu”   Forces that seek … Continue reading

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6 unexpected ways Six Sigma can benefit your company


Six Sigma is a management methodology which allows companies to use data to eliminate defects in any process. For a process to have achieved Six Sigma, a process must not produce a defect – that is anything outside of customer … Continue reading

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Growing Your Business the Six Sigma Way


As a manager or executive at a small business, “Six Sigma” is probably not on your to-do list. Yet this proven methodology for quality improvement, developed at Motorola in the early 1980s and popularized by General Electric, provides a powerful … Continue reading

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Statistical Process Control (SPC)


Introduction and Background The concepts of Statistical Process Control (SPC) were initially developed by Dr. Walter Shewhart of Bell Laboratories in the 1920’s, and were expanded upon by Dr. W. Edwards Deming, who introduced SPC to Japanese industry after WWII. After early successful … Continue reading

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RISK MANAGEMENT


To understand risk management, let us first understand what is a risk and what is not a risk? Consider the following statement, “I run a risk of collision when I drive on a crowded street as my brake pads are … Continue reading

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