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Six Sigma
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ALSO CALLED: Total Quality Management, TQM, and 6 Sigma
DEFINITION: Six Sigma is a management philosophy developed by Motorola that emphasizes setting extremely high objectives, collecting data, and analyzing results to a fine degree as a way to reduce defects in products and services. The Greek letter sigma is sometimes used to denote variation from a standard. The philosophy behind Six Sigma is that if you measure how many defects are in a process, you can
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| Recent Vendor Reports on Six Sigma |
How to Use Six Sigma to Communicate Data Quality Improvement
| sponsored by Baseline Consulting
WHITE PAPER:
This paper provides an overview of how the Six Sigma methodology can be applied to your efforts, with particular emphasis on communicating improvement needs and progress to executives and other stakeholders.
Posted: 17 Dec 2008 | Published: 17 Dec 2008
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Metastorm Enterprise for Six Sigma
| sponsored by Metastorm
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This paper reviews the five phases of Six Sigma and describes how Metastorm can help organizations reach higher levels of process excellence and more rapidly achieve quality objectives.
Posted: 08 Oct 2008 | Published: 08 Oct 2008
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Accelerate Business Performance Gains with Manufacturing Execution Systems
| sponsored by Visiprise
WHITE PAPER:
A Manufacturing Execution System (MES) is a dynamic information system that drives effective execution of manufacturing operations.
Posted: 29 Feb 2008 | Published: 01 Apr 2007
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An Architecture for Data Quality: A Kimball Group White Paper
| sponsored by Informatica
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This paper describes an easily implemented, nondisruptive, scalable, and comprehensive foundation for capturing data quality events as well as measuring and ultimately controlling data quality in the data warehouse.
Posted: 21 Jan 2008 | Published: 01 Jan 2007
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ERP Journey: Preparing for Takeoff, One Little Bang at a Time:
| sponsored by CIO Decisions
JOURNAL ARTICLE:
If our estimates hold, we will complete our ERP project 18 months after we started searching for a new system. We chose carefully, after negotiating for six months.
Posted: 14 Aug 2005 | Published: 01 Aug 2005
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SIX SIGMA DEFINITION (continued): … figure out how to systematically eliminate them and get as close to perfection as possible. In order for a company to achieve Six Sigma, it cannot produce more than 3.4 defects per million opportunities, where an opportunity is defined as a chance for nonconformance. There are two Six Sigma processes: Six Sigma DMAIC and Six Sigma DMADV, each term derived from the major steps in the process. Six Sigma DMAIC is a process that defines, measures, analyzes, improves, and controls existing processes that fall below the Six Sigma specification. Six Sigma DMADV defines, measures, analyzes, designs, …
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