Stockholders and customers both challenge executives to produce products and services at lower cost and higher quality. In response to this need executives have implemented quality improvement programmes. One widely applied programme is Six Sigma, which promises massive cost-reduction, and improved quality of products and services. Six Sigma methodology is a business strategy for operations imp...

Lean health care is one of new managing approaches putting the patient at the core of each change. Lean construction is based on visualization for understanding and prioritizing imporvments. By using only visualization techniques, so much important information could be missed. In order to prioritize and select improvements, it’s essential to integrate new analysis tools to achieve a good unders...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore if six sigma and lean are new methods, or if they are repackaged versions of previously popular methods – total quality management (TQM) and just-in-time (JIT). Design/methodology/approach – The study is based on a critical comparison of lean with JIT and six sigma with TQM, a study of the measure of the publication frequency – the number of aca...

Six Sigma is a systematic improvement method, management approach designed to continuously improve corporate business processes and achieve customer requirement. This paper presents case study conducted at cell phone manufacturing company that intended use the DMAIC method carry out structured projects with fewer defective units generated by hot press in process. In this process, Boss cracking ...

Purpose The purpose of this study is to discover the learning mechanisms and temporal dynamics implementing systems (Six Sigma) as it unfolds over time. Design/methodology/approach data come from a European engineering company that was Six Sigma-based quality management system (QMS) seven-year period. analysis based on an event-sequence reconstruction implementation process unfolded time discov...

The improvement process of six-sigma DMAIC refers to the that industry performs enhance quality via following five procedures: (1) define, (2) measure, (3) analyze, (4) improve, and (5) control. It is a common tool used in ameliorate quality. In addition, capability index most frequently uses measure Though many studies have discussed methods, none specific theoretical models could be provided ...