Improving Processes to Improve Results
Businesses of all types and sizes are in the midst of a quality revolution. The GE corporation achieved returns of $12 billion in five years. Honeywell (AlliedSignal) has also recorded more than $800 million in cost reductions. Companies like Sony, Nokia, Toshiba, American Express and others have achieved similar results.
What do all of these organizations have in common?…A commitment to Six Sigma. Implementing Six Sigma into your corporate culture improves processes, maximizes business performance, and increases economic benefits. Even better is the end result: a huge competitive advantage for your company in the marketplace.
What makes Six Sigma work is sound training and a commitment to implement and integrate Six Sigma throughout your organization. Six Sigma also works because it's handled by an experienced source you can trust. That source is The Colombian Society of Six Sigma (ACOSIXSIGMA).
If your company is doing well – as GE was in 1995 when Jack Welch started Six Sigma – then why consider a commitment to Six Sigma? Why are so many businesses willing to invest in this approach?…Because the benefits that companies can achieve are real and proven:
With the enormous competition facing virtually every industry today, providing good or defect-free products is simply not enough to guarantee success. That's why the Six Sigma strategy focuses on improving value for your customers. ACOSIXSIGMA implements this approach to understand customer needs and to plan how to deliver that value to them profitably.
Innovation and continuous improvement are the only way to achieve sustained high growth in our dynamic global market. Six Sigma helps create the skills and culture necessary for continuous improvement, so that success becomes a constant within your organization.
Typically, all personnel in an organization share tasks to deliver products, services, or information to customers. However, getting everyone in a company focused on meeting specific performance goals is a huge challenge. Six Sigma helps you conquer that challenge by setting a consistent goal and instituting an effective measurement system throughout your company.
Customer expectations of your business have probably doubled or even tripled in the past 18 months. The company that implements improvements and changes faster than the competition is usually the winner. Six Sigma can accelerate your rate of improvement by integrating a variety of problem solving tools as well as statistical tools for a radical and rapid increase in performance.
A company that continually learns is simply successful. Six Sigma can increase the rate of collaboration and development of new ideas within any company.
Change is inevitable, but strategic change is what separates successful companies from those that just survive. ACOSIXSIGMA promotes a clearer understanding of the key processes of companies. This understanding provides greater flexibility to execute both the minor adjustments and the major changes that a successful future demands.
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FAQ
According to the Body of Knowledge (BOK) of the American Society for Quality (ASQ) and the international certification programs recognized by Motorola University and the International Society for Six Sigma Certifications, the minimum hour number of the Six Sigma program is: There are a number of Six Sigma programs that are widely marketed and apply only a fraction of the BOK for each level. Acosixsigma is recognized for the large amount of curricular content that applies to all types of industry. For example, the estimated time for a Black Belt certification course is 120 hours, not including additional time allocated to a Six Sigma project. Other providers offer Black Belt training courses totaling 90 hours and Green Belt courses advertised at 56 hours. Therefore the variability in class hours obviously serves as a warning for interested companies to carefully check the subjects when taking a particular course against the established criteria for certification.
A Lean/Kaizen/Blitz Event is an intense effort where the team applies specific Lean approaches to reduce waste, defects, and cycle time and to implement improvements in a particular process or department.
Lean Six Sigma is an integrated set of methodologies that encompasses both Lean and Six Sigma concepts. It combines two powerful toolsets to address all aspects of quality, cost, and delivery. Both sets of methodologies have a customer and quality focus and are based on continuous improvement, which allows them to be very complementary.
Lean focuses on offering competitively priced products and services by eliminating waste and its drivers, while Six Sigma focuses on minimizing and reducing process variation that causes nonconformities.
Lean Six Sigma combines the strength and rigor of Six Sigma and data-driven analysis with the simple tools of Lean to eliminate waste and its drivers. The combination of the two methods provides a more robust set of tools for organizations to apply to solve problems, using the tools and techniques that best suit the specific problem at hand. Rather than the traditional independent use of tools, Lean Six Sigma combines Lean approaches into Six Sigma through the DMAIC (Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve and Control) method, as well as allowing Lean approaches to be used on their own. in the DMAIC model.
Process improvement is necessary for the performance of an organization that does not meet customer requirements. Lean Six Sigma offers a comprehensive set of tools, techniques, and approaches to enable an organization to gather customer requirements, analyze existing performance against those requirements, implement solutions to address performance gaps, and maintain best-in-class status. The tools and techniques used are the most appropriate for the specific problem at hand.
