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Leading Six Sigma: A Step-by-Step Guide Based on Experience with GE and Other Six Sigma Companies
Author Roger W. Hoerl , Ronald D. Snee
Leading Six Sigma is the complete guide to leading quality initiatives in your company. Top Six Sigma consultant Ronald Snee and GE quality leader Roger Hoerl demonstrate how to deploy a Six Sigma plan that reflects your unique organization, and key lessons learned ....
Release Date 2002/11 -
Design for Six Sigma: In Technology and Product Development
Author D. Antis , J. L. Slutsky , C. M. Creveling
This book addresses many new topical areas for the development of 6 Sigma performance. The text is structured to demonstrate how 6 Sigma methods can be used as a very powerful tool within System Engineering and integration evaluations to help enable the process of C....
Release Date 2002/10 -
Author Roger W. Hoerl , Ronald D. Snee
Nonmanufacturing organizations are rapidly discovering Six Sigma's immense potential to reduce costs, improve performance, grow revenue, strengthen focus, and empower people. To achieve these results in your organization, start right here.Ronald D. Snee and Roger W....
Release Date 2004/10 -
What Is Six Sigma for Technical Processes?
Author Clyde M. Creveling
This document discusses how technical leaders and management professionals can implement Six Sigma for the processes they oversee. It explores a relatively new kind of Six Sigma and its associated lean principles that prevent problems in well-designed, structured te....
Release Date 2006/08 -
Author Stephen A. Zinkgraf
Start Six Sigma Fast—And Achieve Powerful Business Benefits Within MonthsThis book offers leaders a proven turnkey approach to launching a Six Sigma initiative in 90 days and using it to transform your company within a year.Drawing on their experience with fifty Six....
Release Date 2006/03 -
Author Ph.D. Edward A. Popovich , , Ph.D. David M. Levine , , Ph.D. Howard S. Gitlow
Most Six Sigma books are targeted at manufacturers, and don't reflect the unique implementation challenges service companies face. This book fills the gap. Using its practical, start-to-finish guidance, service company teams can utilize Six Sigma to drive powerful ....
Release Date 2006/06 -
Six Sigma for Marketing Processes: An Overview for Marketing Executives, Leaders, and Managers
Author Clyde M. Creveling , Lynne Hambleton , Burke McCarthy
Nearly half of the top one hundred Fortune 500 companies use Six Sigma methodology in some part of their business. These companies have been among the top one hundred for five or more years and consistently report higher revenue and significantly higher profits than....
Release Date 2006/02 -
Statistics for Six Sigma Green Belts with Minitab and JMP
Author David M. Levine
The only book on the market that provides a simple nonmathematical presentation of the statistics needed by Six Sigma Green Belts. Every concept is explained in plain English with a minimum of mathematical symbols. Includes real-world examples, step by step instruct....
Release Date 2006/06 -
Statistical Tolerancing in Design for Six Sigma
Author David W. Bacon , Randy C. Perry
Development of a new product requires the product development team to address many complex customer requirements during the commercialization process. Consider a situation in which a new product being developed must meet specified upper and lower specification limit....
Release Date 2006/08 -
The Business Case for Design for Six Sigma
Author Randy C. Perry , David W. Bacon
Successful development and commercialization of new products are critical to the long term viability of any business. The primary goal of product development is to enable a company to meet its goals for profitability and growth by introducing new, improved and innov....
Release Date 2006/09 -
Author Clyde M. Creveling
Use Six Sigma to achieve and sustain excellence in product development and commercialization!To sustain growth and profitability, companies must tightly align product development and commercialization to fast-changing customer requirements. In this book, Clyde Creve....
Release Date 2006/11 -
Commercializing Great Products with Design for Six Sigma
Author David W. Bacon , Randy C. Perry
Optimize Every Stage of Your Product Development and CommercializationTo remain competitive, companies must become more effective at identifying, developing, and commercializing new products and services. Design for Six Sigma (DFSS) is the most powerful approach ava....
Release Date 2006/10 -
Lean Sigma: A Practitioner’s Guide
Author Dr. Ian Wedgwood
The Practical, Easy-to-Use Guide to Lean Sigma Problem-SolvingLean Sigma delivers results—if you use the right tools and techniques. In Lean Sigma: A Practitioner’s Guide, Dr. Ian Wedgwood captures best-practice Lean Sigma experience from multiple projects and indus....
Release Date 2006/10 -
Author Paul Hamill
Unit test frameworks are a key element of popular development methodologies such as eXtreme Programming (XP) and Agile Development. But unit testing has moved far beyond eXtreme Programming; it is now common in many different types of application development. Unit t....
Release Date 2004/11 -
The Six Sigma Way: How GE, Motorola, and Other Top Companies Are Honing Their Performance
Author Roland R. Cavanagh , Robert P. Neuman , Peter S. Pande
Six Sigma is a data-driven management system with near-perfect-performance objectives that has been employed to acclaim at leading corporations like General Electric. Its name is derived from the eye-catching statistical target of operating with no more than 3.4 def....
Release Date 2000/04 -
The Six Sigma Way Team Fieldbook
Author Roland R. Cavanagh , Robert P. Neuman , Peter S. Pande
This companion guide to the bestselling The Six Sigma Way focuses on the project improvement teams that do the real, in-the-trenches work of Six Sigma-measuring performance, improving quality and saving millions in the process.The Six Sigma Way Team Fieldbook is a h....
Release Date 2001/12 -
Author Peter Pande , Lawrence Holpp
A brief introduction to Six Sigma for employeesSix Sigma is today's most talked-about system for improving the quality of organizational processes. Written by bestselling author Peter Pande,What Is Six Sigma? is a concise summary of the core themes and processes ....
Release Date 2001/11 -
Author Michael L. George
The Breakthrough Program for Increasing Quality, Shortening Cycle Times, and Creating Shareholder Value In Every Area of Your Organization Time and quality are the two most important metrics in improving any company's production and profit performance. Lean Six Sig....
Release Date 2002/04 -
The Six Sigma Handbook, Revised and Expanded, 2nd Edition
Author Thomas Pyzdek
The most comprehensive Six Sigma reference available, now revised and expandedCompletely rewritten and reorganized, this second edition of The Six Sigma Handbookcovers all the basic statistics and qualityimprovement tools of the Six Sigma quality management system. ....
Release Date 2002/12 -
The Six Sigma Project Planner: A Step-by-Step Guide to Leading a Six Sigma Project Through DMAIC
Author Thomas Pyzdek
The Six Sigma Project Planner shows Six Sigma Black Belts and Green Belts how to use project management tools to complete Six Sigma improvements on time and on budget.The Planner provides dozens of reproducible project management tools for following the proven Defin....
Release Date 2003/03 -
Author Michael L. George
Bring the miracle of Lean Six Sigma improvement out of manufacturing and into servicesMuch of the U.S. economy is now based on services rather than manufacturing. Yet the majority of books on Six Sigma and Lean--today's major quality improvement initiatives--explai....
Release Date 2003/06 -
Author Bill Kastle , David T. Rowlands , Michael L. George
A bestselling Six Sigma author tells employees everything they need to know about the Lean Six Sigma strategyLean Six Sigma combines the two most important and popular quality trends of our time: Six Sigma and Lean Production. What Is Lean Six Sigma? is a simple pri....
Release Date 2003/10 -
Statistics for Six Sigma Made Easy
Author Warren Brussee
A veteran GE manager explains the tools of Six Sigma--in plain English This is the first simple, low-level guide to using the powerful statistical tools of Six Sigma to solve real-world problems. Warren Brussee, a Six Sigma manager who helped his teams generate mil....
Release Date 2004/06 -
Author Malcolm Upton , David T. Rowlands , John Maxey , Michael L. George
A BUSINESSWEEK BESTSELLERBestselling Lean Six Sigma author Michael George provides the first pocket guide for deployers of Lean Six SigmaThe Lean Six Sigma Pocket Toolbook blends Lean and Six Sigma tools and concepts, providing expert advice on how to determine whic....
Release Date 2004/09 -
Need for the Six Sigma Business Scorecard
Author Praveen Gupta
Praveen Gupta was at Motorola in 1987 when Bill Smith first proposed what has become Six Sigma, and has been working to improve processes ever since. Somewhere along the line Mr. Gupta became focused on the problems of relating corporate goals and profits to process....
Release Date 2006/12 -
The Six Sigma Way: How to Maximize the Impact of Your Change and Improvement Efforts, 2nd Edition
Author Roland Cavanagh , Robert Neuman , Peter Pande
The Definitive Work on Six Sigma—Revised and Fully UpdatedUpon its publication in 2000, The Six Sigma Way was among the very first books to clearly explain the impressive benefits of Six Sigma’s improvement-driven and customer-centric approach to business leaders an....
Release Date 2014/01 -
Author Roland Cavanagh , Dodd Starbird
Harness the Power of Your MostValuable Resource—Your Workforce!Process improvement approaches likeSix Sigma and Lean Enterprise haveworked wonders for countless organizations,but in the drive for true excellence,these approaches are only one important partof the for....
Release Date 2010/09 -
The Mcgraw-Hill 36-Hour Course : Lean Six Sigma
Author Shahbaz Shahbazi , Sheila Shaffie
Use your next three-day weekend to develop valuable Lean Six Sigma skillsWith the integration of Lean and Six Sigma, businesses have a potent tool in the never-ending drive to deliver top-quality service and products. But you don’t need to be a Black Belt to build q....
Release Date 2012/04 -
Six Sigma Demystified, Second Edition
Author Paul Keller
Learning Six Sigma CAN be a painless process!Six Sigma is among the most effective process methods used today--and it’s also among the most baffling topics to those new to the subject.The good news is Six Sigma DeMYSTiFieD, second edition, explains it all in a langu....
Release Date 2010/12 -
Author Jay Arthur
DELIVER FASTER, BETTER, AND CHEAPER HEALTHCARE IN AS FEW AS FIVE DAYS4 STAR DOODY'S REVIEW!"The main purpose is to present simple steps to help hospitals start getting faster, better, and cheaper in five days or less while achieving the goal of fast, affordable, an....
Release Date 2011/02