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Six Sigma (6σ) is a set of techniques and tools for process improvement.It was introduced by American engineer Bill Smith while working at Motorola in 1986.. Six Sigma strategies seek to improve manufacturing quality by identifying and removing the causes of defects and minimizing variability in manufacturing and business processes.
Design for Six Sigma ( DFSS) is a collection of best-practices for the development of new products and processes. It is sometimes deployed as an engineering design process or business process management method. DFSS originated at General Electric to build on the success they had with traditional Six Sigma; but instead of process improvement ...
Value-stream mapping, also known as material- and information-flow mapping, [1] is a lean [2] -management method for analyzing the current state and designing a future state for the series of events that take a product or service from the beginning of the specific process until it reaches the customer. A value stream map is a visual [2] tool ...
DMAIC. DMAIC or define, measure, analyze, improve and control [1] (pronounced də-MAY-ick) refers to a data-driven improvement cycle used for optimizing and stabilizing business processes and designs. The DMAIC improvement cycle is the core tool used to drive Six Sigma projects. However, DMAIC is not exclusive to Six Sigma and can be used as ...
Systems development life cycle. In systems engineering, information systems and software engineering, the systems development life cycle ( SDLC ), also referred to as the application development life cycle, is a process for planning, creating, testing, and deploying an information system. [1] The SDLC concept applies to a range of hardware and ...
Lean enterprise is a practice focused on value creation for the end customer with minimal waste and processes. The term has historically been associated with lean manufacturing and Six Sigma (or Lean Six Sigma) due to lean principles being popularized by Toyota in the automobile manufacturing industry and subsequently the electronics and internet software industries.
Dartmouth College [10] Emory University [11] Franklin University [12] Friends University [13] George Washington University [14] Georgia Institute of Technology [15] Technische Universität Berlin [16] Technische Universität München [17] The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.
The Capability Maturity Model ( CMM) is a development model created in 1986 after a study of data collected from organizations that contracted with the U.S. Department of Defense, who funded the research. The term "maturity" relates to the degree of formality and optimization of processes, from ad hoc practices, to formally defined steps, to ...