Synopses & Reviews
Business Management
"No other book coversat an adequate technical levelas many topics important toSix Sigma. An indispensable reference for the Six Sigma practitioner."
Ramon V. Leon
Associate Professor, Statistics Department of the University of Tennessee
Associate editor, Six Sigma Forum magazine
"Breyfogle's book should be valuable to every Six Sigma professional."
Bill Scherkenback
Director, Samsung Quality Team
"The seamless integration of statistical methodologies . . . helps organizations execute their strategic plans and track both short- and longer-term strategic progress within their various departments and overall organizations."
Donald C. Fisher, PhD
Executive Director, MSQPCThe Quality Center
"Implementing Six Sigma provides the most up-to-date material on the topic, complete with a project infrastructure roadmap and hundreds of real-life examples and exercises."
Frank Shines
Project Manager, Pilgrim Software
This new and significantly revised edition of Implementing Six Sigma goes well beyondtraditional Six Sigma methodologies, introducing an enhanced roadmapS4/IEE (Smarter Six Sigma Solutionssm/Integrated Enterprise Excellence). This cutting-edge approach offers a solution to the common problem of sustaining Six Sigma activities and downplays the traditional policy stating that Six Sigma projects must have a defined defect. A variety of plans, checklists, metrics, and warnings of potential pitfalls provide thorough preparation for anyone implementing Six Sigma strategies.
With new coverage of Six Sigma infrastructure building, benchmarking, and real-world "lessons learned," this Second Edition is the best available tool for implementing thesepowerful, profit-building strategies.
Review
"The book is process oriented rather than tool oriented. This makes it refreshing and useful. This is a book every reliability engineer should own." (
Reliability Review; 12/08)
"An excellent reference book that should be on every individual involved in Six Sigma or even just quality assurance/quality improvement." (TQM Magazine)
"...a useful guide for both academia and organizations...useful source of reference for researchers...an excellent reference book..." (The TQM Magazine, Vol 15(6) 2003)
Review
'\"An excellent reference book that should be on every individual involved in Six Sigma or even just quality assurance/quality improvement.\" (
TQM Magazine)
\"...a useful guide for both academia and organizations...useful source of reference for researchers...an excellent reference book...\" (The TQM Magazine, Vol 15(6) 2003)'
Review
'2004 Crosby Medal Winner'
Synopsis
- Includes new and expanded coverage of Six Sigma infrastructure building and benchmarking.
- Provides plans, checklists, metrics, and pitfalls.
Synopsis
Das bew hrte Handbuch zum Statistiktool Six Sigma - jetzt in neuer, aktualisierter Auflage
- besprochen werden t glich ben tigte Verfahren und deren Implementation
- erweiterte Behandlung u.a. des Benchmarkings
- mit vielen praxisnahen bungen
- enth lt Pl ne, Checklisten und bersichten h ufig auftretender Fehler
Synopsis
Includes bibliographical references (p. 1125-1138) and index.
Synopsis
Filled with excellent diagrams and examples, the book discusses the theories of Edward Deming and other quality gurus, as well as the history of the Six Sigma program. It helps you lay the foundation for a Six Sigma program and discusses how to get upper management involved in the process.
But the heart of the book is the statistical tools used in Six Sigma. From FMEA (Failure Mode and Effect Analysis) to QFD (Quality Functional Deployment) and DOE (Design of Experiment), Implementing Six Sigma is your guide to understanding these powerful improvement techniques. Rather than just a brief overview, it breaks down each tool into a separate chapter and gives an in-depth analysis of each process. The chapters contain exercises that help you understand the tools and how to best utilize each one to achieve a minimum number of defects in the production process.
Written in an engaging style, this book is your guide to implementing a Six Sigma program. Contains appendices with numerous examples and copies of actual implementation guides used at Motorola.
Synopsis
Written to aid organizations in laying the foundation for Six Sigma, this comprehensive and engaging guide provides the tools, strategies, and motivation to get all relevant players involved with improvement from upper management on down. At the heart of the book is a group of statistical tools that address FMEA (Failure Mode and Effect Analysis), QFD (Quality Functional Deployment), and DOE (Design of Experiment).
Rather than offering just a brief overview, Implementing Six Sigma devotes individual chapters to all of the tools, so as to provide an in-depth analysis of each. A large selection of diagrams and clarifying exercises demonstrate how to best utilize the tools to successfully minimize defects throughout the production process. To provide a deeper understanding, the book discusses the theories of Edward Deming and the history of the Six Sigma program. Steeped in real world application, it presents numerous examples, as well as copies of actual implementation guides used by Motorola.
About the Author
Forrest W. Breyfogle III is the founder and President of Smarter Solutions, Inc., a company specializing in training andconsulting in Six Sigma methodologies. He is the author of Statistical Methods for Testing, Development, and Manufacturing and Implementing Six Sigma and coauthor of Managing Six Sigma, all published by Wiley.
Table of Contents
PREFACE.
PART I: S4/IEE DEPLOYMENT AND DEFINE PHASE FROM DMAIC.
1. Six Sigma Overview and S4/IEEE Implementation.
2. Voice of the Customer and the S4/IEEE Define Phase.
PART II: S4/IEE MEASURE PHASE FROM DMAIC.
3. Measurement and the S4/IEEE Measurement Phase.
4. Process Flow Charting/Process Mapping.
5. Basic Tools.
6. Probability.
7. Overview of Distributions and Statistical Processes.
8. Probability and Hazard Plotting.
9. Six Sigma Measurements.
10. Basic Control Charts.
11. Process Capability and Process Performance Metrics.
12. Measurement Systems Analysis.
13. Cause-and-Effect Matrix and Quality Function Deployment.
14. FMEA (Failure Mode and Effects Analysis).
PART III: S4/IEE ANALYZE PHASE FROM DMAIC (OR PASSIVE ANALYSIS PHASE).
15. Visualization of Data.
16. Confidence Intervals and Hypothesis Tests.
17. Inferences: Continuous Response.
18. Inference: Attribute (Pass/Fail) Response.
19. Comparison Tests: Continuous Response.
20. Comparison Tests: Attribute (Pass/Fail) Response.
21. Bootstrapping.
22. Variance Components.
23. Correlation and Simple Linear Regression.
24. Single-Factor (One-Way) Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) and Analysis of Means (ANOM).
25. Two-Factor (Two-Way) Analysis of Variance.
26. Multiple Regression, Logistic Regression, and Indicator Variables.
PART IV: S4/IEE IMPROVE PHASE FROM DMAIC (OR PROACTIVE TESTING PHASE).
27. Benefiting from Design of Experiments (DOE).
28. Understanding the Creation of Full and Fractional Factorial 2K DOEs.
29. Planning 2K DOEs.
30. Design and Analysis of 2K DOEs.
31. Other DOE Considerations.
32. Robust DOE.
33. Response Surface Methodology.
PART V: S4/IEE CONTROL PHASE FROM DMAIC AND APPLICATION EXAMPLES.
34. Short-Run and Target Control Charts.
35. Control Charting Alternatives.
36. Exponentially Weighted Moving Average (EWMA) and Engineering Process Control (EPC).
37. Pre-Control Charts.
38. Control, Plan, Poka-Yoke, Realistic Tolerancing, and Project Completion.
39. Reliability Testing/Assessment: Overview.
40. Reliability Testing/Assessment: Repairable System.
41. Reliability Testing/Assessment: Nonrepairable Devices.
42. Pass/Fall Functional Testing.
43. S4/IEEE Application Examples.
PART VI: S4/IEE LEAN AND THEORY OF CONSTRAINTS.
44. Lean and Its Integration with S4/IEEE .
45. Integrating of Theory of Constraints (TOC) in S4 /IEE.
PART VII: DFSS AND 21-STEP INTEGRATION OF THE TOOLS.
46. Manufacturing Applications and A 21-Step Integration of the Tools.
47. Service/Transactional Applications and A 21-Step Integration of the Tools.
48. DFSS Overview and Tools.
49. Product DFSS.
50. Process DFSS.
PART VIII: MANAGEMENT OF INFRASTRUCTURE AND TEAM EXECUTION.
51. Change Management.
52. Project Management and Financial Analysis.
53. Team Effectiveness.
54. Creativity.
55. Alignment of Management Initiatives and Strategies with S4/IEEE .
Appendix A. Supplemental Information.
Appendix B. Equations for the Distributions.
Appendix C. Mathematical Relationships.
Appendix D. DOE Supplement.
Appendix E. Reference Tables.
List of Symbols.
Glossary.
References.
Index.