Application of Six Sigma DMAIC methodology in thermal power plants: A case study

Kaushik, Prabhakar; Khanduja, Dinesh

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“…Process management orientation to continuous improvement requires that Six Sigma members are trained intensely in abilities, group dynamics and statistical methods and tools (Gitlow, 2005;Lee et al, 2006;Ravichandran, 2006;Zu et al, 2008). For example, the DMAIC cycle (define, measure, analyze, improve and control) is also present in Six Sigma, as a tool for process improvement (Kanji, 2008;Kaushik and Khanduja, 2009;Schroeder et al, 2008). Besides, Breyfogle (2003) describes a very wide variety of statistical tools that can be used in each phase of the DMAIC cycle.…”

Section: The Six Sigma Methodology: Teamwork and Process Managementmentioning

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Six sigma, absorptive capacity and organisational learning orientation

Gutiérrez

Bustinza

Barrales‐Molina

2012

International Journal of Production Research

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The importance of the Six Sigma methodology in industry is growing constantly. However, there are few empirical studies that analyze the advantages of this methodology and its positive effects on organizational performance. The purpose of this paper is to extend understanding of the success of Six Sigma quality management initiatives by investigating the effects of Six Sigma teamwork and process management on absorptive capacity. It also seeks to understand the relation between absorptive capacity and organizational learning as two sources of sustainable competitive advantage. The information used comes from a larger study, the data for which were collected from a random sample of 237 European firms. Of these 237 organizations, 58 are Six Sigma organizations. Structural Equation Modelling (SEM) was used to test the hypotheses. The main findings show that Six Sigma teamwork and process management positively affect the development of absorptive capacity. A positive and significant relationship is also observed between absorptive capacity and organizational learning orientation. The findings of this study justify Six Sigma implementation in firms. This study provides us with an in-depth understanding of some structural elements that characterize the Six Sigma methodology, enabling us to provide an explanation for its success.

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Section: The Six Sigma Methodology: Teamwork and Process Managementmentioning

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Six sigma, absorptive capacity and organisational learning orientation

Gutiérrez

Bustinza

Barrales‐Molina

2012

International Journal of Production Research

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“…Six Sigma has recently gained a wide popularity because of its success at revealing large cost savings as well as quality improvement. Six Sigma focuses to improve the quality of products and services as well as to make them better, faster and cheaper (Mahanti & Antony, 2006;Kaushik & Khanduja, 2009). Although there are some unsuccessful implementations of the methodology due to several reasons, many organizations worldwide have implemented Six Sigma and achieved remarkable improvements in their market share, customer satisfaction, reliability and performance of products and services with impressive financial savings (Gijo & Rao, 2005).…”

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Effectiveness of six sigma methodology through BSC in banking industry

Nayeri

Rostami

2016

JABS

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This paper aims to discuss the effectiveness of Six Sigma through balanced scorecard in banking industry. Six Sigma is a powerful analytical technique which yields a dramatic reduction in defects, errors, or mistakes in production and service processes. So it can be useful to find defectives in financial institutions and banks while it can accompany with BSC to approach all organization aspects. Reaching this aim, this paper tries to survey the effectiveness of Six Sigma through balanced scorecard aspects in one of Iranian pioneer banks in deploying aforementioned methodologies. Respondents have been extracted among bank experts with various backgrounds who experienced both techniques in practice for at least four continues years. Findings depict that customer aspect is the most appropriate aspect for implementing Six Sigma, while Learning; Financial and Internal process aspects are less suitable respectively. It is fruitful to declare that all BSC aspects are prone to use the advantages of Six Sigma in practice according to respondent's points of view.

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“…At this stage, to understand what customer required and to define clearly the problems is a must and very important [1,3].…”

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“…It put forward higher requirements--to control costs, to maintain high level of product quality and to meet increasing customer expectation. As a highly disciplined process, six sigma helped enterprises focus on developing and delivering near-perfect products and services [1]. Engineers Bill Smith or Mikal Harry originally developed six sigma for a suitably high level of quality in production process, and six sigma that can be viewed at three distinct levels as metric, methodology and philosophy simultaneously granted to a performance improvement way which can be tracked in the late-1980's [2].…”

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Application of six sigma methodology in forging manufacturing plants: An example study

Liu

2011

2011 IEEE 2nd International Conference on Computing, Control and Industrial Engineering

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Products which can meet market requirements and customer demand were created in a high response speed by original product manufacturer called OPM has been critical to competitive success. Six sigma methodology gave impetus to original manufacture in low cost for the purpose of near-perfect product and advanced service. Therefore, six sigma methodology obtained a popularity to perfect-quality in the field of manufacture industries. In this paper, an attempt that taken an assessment and improvement of dents on the top surface of product in forging plants was being made to apply six sigma methodology which was a systematic procedure driven by statistic data. The problem of product defects were discovered and defined in definite through critical customer requirement analysis. It was based on products measurement from the genesis of sampling in the process that first-hand data collected by quality control staff showed the information in essence including critical causes of dents and what issues they created by means of statistics and management in science. Regarding these critical reasons and what the effect they brought about in actual, counterpart measurement and proposal were designed and taken out in nature, which run as an experimental plan of effect verification. It was preeminent testimony that six sigma procedure was applied to take an implementation in forging plants has contributed to high quality of product enormously and effectively. Keywords-six sigma; DMAIC; forging parts; manufacture industries___________________________________ 978-1-4244-9600-6/11/$26.00 ©2011 IEEE

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Application of Six Sigma DMAIC methodology in thermal power plants: A case study

Cited by 53 publications

References 5 publications

Six sigma, absorptive capacity and organisational learning orientation

Six sigma, absorptive capacity and organisational learning orientation

Effectiveness of six sigma methodology through BSC in banking industry

Application of six sigma methodology in forging manufacturing plants: An example study

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