Professional Documents
Culture Documents
• Outcomes
• Reduction in overtime
• Reduction in time
• Cost to hire an employee
• Reduction in safety violations
• Reduction of employee separation
What is six sigma?
• Six Sigma is the methodology that combines the gradual &
continuous improvement & promotes radical design . It is a
statistical tool used for problem solving which reduces the defects
by streamlining various processes.
• A structured method for improving business processes. This method,
called DMAIC (Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, Control), is
supported by an assortment of statistical tools.
• An organizational mindset in which people make decisions based on
data, look for root causes of problems, define defects based on
customer rather than internal requirements, seek to control
variation, track leading indicators of problems to prevent them from
happening, etc.
• Sigma is the Greek letter representing the standard deviation of a
population of data.
• It ensures value enrichment of the products or services for the
customers.
• It is aimed at stimulating each employees to care about accuracy.
• HR professionals with the right skills can contribute to a Six Sigma
initiative at both strategic and tactical levels
Six Sigma versus TQM
Six Sigma TQM
2 Measure SIPOC-Supplier-Input-Process-Output-Customer
Data collection
Rejection Trends
Rejection Cost
Defect Matrix
Measurement system analysis
3 Analyze Root cause analysis
Pareto analysis