Six Sigma project success stories exist from organizations including manufacturing, service, nonprofit, government, research and healthcare. Six Sigma is an accelerated performance improvement method and the business strategy rapidly spreading throughout corporate world. It began as common measurement system and goal for process performance has turned into a proven means of gaining market share. It is being adopted by world’s most respected companies which have recognized six sigma as the tool to improve the capability of their processes to satisfy customer need, improving their processes to satisfy customer need, improving their earnings, shareholders returns and many more benefit.
- Develop Flexible Production Equipment: Quick changeovers - SMED
- Implement Continuous Flow Processing: Manufacturing and assembly Cells
- Control Quality at the Source: Source inspection & error proofing - Six Sigma process capability
- Manage Overall Equipment Effectiveness: T.P.M. for increasing machine uptime
- Minimize Inventories: Just-In-Time production & inventory control
- Use Pull not Push Scheduling: Kanbans and Supermarket pulls
By establishing an enterprise-wide quality measurement program, an organization begins to develop practices that increase the value it gets from investing in a quality management infrastructure. The practices can help organizations as they form new processes and generate support for quality improvement. Practices stem directly from what we already know about measurement programs in general, and others speak more directly to the concerns of a quality-centric program.
TQM is a profound knowledge and is a set of systematic activities carried out by the entire organization to effectively and efficiently achieve company objectives so as to provide products and services with a level of quality that satisfies customers, at the appropriate time and price. TQM is a lens to see world with new eyes.
