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Defect based Six Sigma Metrics
Six Sigma Engineering
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A Six Sigma
Engineer develops efficient and cost
effective processes to improve the quality and reduce the number of defects per
million parts in a Manufacturing/Production environment.
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Six Sigma
Engineers determine and fine tune manufacturing process. Once a
process is improved, they go back and re-tune the process and reduce the
defects. This cycle is continued till they reach 3.4 or less defects per million
parts.
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Six Sigma is
all about knowledge sharing. If a company has more than one manufacturing
unit/plant, its more than likely that one of the plants produces better quality
than others. The Six Sigma team should visit this higher quality plant and learn
why its performing better than others and implement the techniques learned
across all other units.
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Research/Design department within a company can use the above techniques to
learn from another R&D departments in the same company or affiliate companies
and implement those techniques.
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Motorola developed
a five phase approach to the Six Sigma process called DMAIC.
DMAIC
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Define opportunities
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Measure performance
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Analyze opportunity
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Improve performance
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Control performance
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