Title: Leaning Into Six Sigma : A Parable of the Journey to Six Sigma and a Lean Enterprise Author: Barbara Wheat, Chuck Mills, Mike Carnell ISBN: 0070534616 / 9780070534612 Format: Soft Cover Pages: 96 Publisher: TMH Year: 2008 Availability: In Stock
Description
Contents
A brief business novel about combining today's two most powerful quality initiatives Leaning Into Six Sigma shows managers how to combine today's two most popular continuous improvement methodologies-- Lean Enterprise and Six Sigma--for dramatically improved quality and cycle time.
This concise and fast-paced "business novel" tells the story of how one skeptical company gradually came to understand and implement a Lean Six Sigma initiative--improving quality at all levels of the organization. This engaging story will help employees and managers understand basic quality concepts from Design of Experiments (DOE) to Analysis of Variance (ANOVA), while learning how to:
Implement work cells and preventive maintenance
Get rid of excess inventory
Speed up processes
Foreword
Introduction
Chapter 1 : SG, Inc. Chapter 2 : First Impressions of the Plant Chapter 3 : Workplace Organization and the Five S's Chapter 4 : The Results of Five S Implementation Chapter 5 : Six Sigma Strategy for Sid Chapter 6 : Defining Six Sigma Chapter 7 : Implementing Six Sigma Chapter 8 : The Crow's Nest Chapter 9 : A New Commitment Chapter 10 : Lean : Listening to the Process Chapter 11 : Full Circle : Lean to Six Sigma to Lean to Six Sigma Chapter 12 : Getting Organized to Get Me Out