In a Lean Six Sigma deployment a primary reason for 5S should be is the creation of standardized work. 5S offers a basic housekeeping discipline for both the shop floor and office, which contains the following steps: sort, straighten, shine, standardize, and sustain.
In a Lean Six Sigma deployment, 5S could be considered in two [...]
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5S (Sort, Straighten, Shine, Standardize, Sustain) within the DMAIC Project Execution Roadmap of Lean Six Sigma
Building an enhanced corporate management system in a Bolivian company: Day 3
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“In Bolivia building a an enhanced corporate management system: Day 1 & Day 2” described the plant tour and first day of the two-day executive management workshop that I conducted with my Chile colleague.
On day three of this week-long workout,
What is a Lean implementation roadmap?
QUESTION: What are the steps to implement successfully Lean? If I could have a 2D map with the tools in one axis and the level of culture in the other one; how would it look like?
Lean Six Sigma Tool Evolution to a Business Management System
Six Sigma can be considered an evolution of Shewhart’s work. It is an effective program for process improvements. Quality professionals must not let it fall into the chasm of previous approaches that many people believed didn’t work. It must be done well by competent practitioners to keep that from happening.
There has been failures of [...]
Enterprise Process Management and Lean Six Sigma DMAIC Project Selection: Books and Roadmaps
It is unfortunate that many companies compile Voice of the Customer (VOC) data without having an overall plan that addresses what they will do with the data once they receive it. Organizations need a sustainable governance system for not only capturing customer data but also conducting competitive new-product-development analyses, reporting metrics, creating strategic plans, and [...]