enterprise resource planning (erp) has become the most strategic tool for an organization to employ. a leading erp solution is sap®. it has been employed by organizations to enable them to collaborate on different projects and to integrate all aspects of operations. just as organizations have adopted erp solutions, they employed quality initiatives that are designed to help organizations maximi...

The process of understanding the control and capability (PUCC) is an iterative closed loop process for continuous improvement. It covers the DMAIC toolkit in its three phases. PUCC is an iterative approach that rotates between the three pillars of the process of understanding, process control, and process capability, with each iteration resulting in a more capable and robust process. It is righ...

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) has become the most strategic tool for an organization to employ. A leading ERP solution is SAP®. It has been employed by organizations to enable them to collaborate on different projects and to integrate all aspects of operations. Just as organizations have adopted ERP solutions, they employed quality initiatives that are designed to help organizations ma...

The Six Sigma approach is a well-structured method for improving quality level by detecting and reducing the variability of the process. Six Sigma approach also helps to achieve the company’s strategic goals by managing the several Six-Sigma projects. There are five sequential phases that are Define, Measurement, Analysis, Improvement and Control of the Six Sigma Project. These phases lead the ...

Process tolerancing based on the process capability studies is the optimistic and pragmatic approach of determining the manufacturing process tolerances. On adopting the define–measure–analyze–improve–control approach, the process potential capability index (C p) and the process performance capability index (C pk) values of identified process characteristics of connecting rod ...

Six sigma for small-and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) is an emerging topic among many academics and Six Sigma practitioners over the last two to three years. Very few studies have been reported about the successful applications of Six Sigma in SMEs. Main objective of this paper is to examine the extent of usefulness of a simpler but not very frequently used methodology known as the Shainin me...

Overall operational excellence is the key requirement of any business to have global competence and sustained growth. Indian industries are not the exception to this. Six Sigma has emerged as one of the most effective business improvement strategies worldwide. Nothing much has been published so far illustrating an overall experience of Indian industries with Six Sigma. This paper presents an an...

The recent Institute of Medicine report, Crossing the Quality Chasm: A New Health System for the 21st Century [1], highlighted the need to improve the reliability of basic processes in health care. One way in which health care has addressed this need is through the implementation of continuous quality improvement techniques. Six Sigma is a process improvement approach widely adopted in industry...