Six Sigma: SPC and TQM in Manufacturing and Services

Tennant, Geoff

doi:10.4324/9781315243023

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“…Other planning tools currently used by ERIs include classic SWOT analyses (Hill and Westbrook, 1997;Humphrey, 2005), stakeholder engagement (Herremans et al, 2016), sigma six (Tennat, 2001), PmBok (PMI, 2013, verification and validation engineering, commissioning processes, and the like (Bartocci and Picciaia, 2013). There are often heated debates on the types of software and specific reporting analytics used in project management, but the corresponding variance is approximatively ∼10% among these tools (T. Beasley, pers.…”

Section: Programmatic Tools To Foster the Development Of Public Privamentioning

confidence: 99%

Integrating Environmental Science and the Economy: Innovative Partnerships between the Private Sector and Research Infrastructures

Chabbi

Loescher

Dillon

2017

Front. Environ. Sci.

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The present paper is a preliminary analysis of the funding, organizational culture, environmental, and innovation challenges that are currently faced by Environmental Research Infrastructures (ERI) and private enterprises working together. We contend there is a strong case for building creative collaboration models across these sectors that also require to new management tools to effectively generate economically-driven solutions to the global society at large in the face of climate change. To that end, public/private stakeholders that are likely to partner to address climate change also face new frontiers in how they will structurally and organizationally work together. We explore these issues around changing political, scientific, commercial environments; partnerships models; barriers in bridging these communities; and the role of formal project management processes. There is no one solution to fit all conditions that can bring together a specific public/private enterprise that incorporates a research infrastructure. However, we have provided two examples of collaborative models of public/private enterprises to highlight how these issues can be addressed, and to foster future dynamic and creative solutions to this problem.

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Section: Programmatic Tools To Foster the Development Of Public Privamentioning

confidence: 99%

Integrating Environmental Science and the Economy: Innovative Partnerships between the Private Sector and Research Infrastructures

Chabbi

Loescher

Dillon

2017

Front. Environ. Sci.

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“…As result to the natural drifting that can occur in the process execution, it is observed that it over time the process mean drifts from the target by 1.5-standard deviation [2]: therefore, the long-term standard deviation of the process will be greater than the observed one on the short-term [22]. In other words, when a process fits on "6 sigma" between the process mean and one of the nearest specification limit in a short-term data variation, it will be "4.5 sigma" in the long term fit.…”

Section: Six Sigma As a Measurement Systemmentioning

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“…In other words, when a process fits on "6 sigma" between the process mean and one of the nearest specification limit in a short-term data variation, it will be "4.5 sigma" in the long term fit. So the six sigma process in fact corresponds to "4.5 sigma" referred to as "6 sigma" minus the 1.5-sigma shift [22]. The long-term data variation, on the other hand, contains common cause variations and special cause variations [23].…”

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The ISBSG Software Project Repository: An Analysis from Six Sigma Measurement Perspective for Software Defect Estimation

Almakadmeh¹,

Abran²

2017

JSEA

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The International Software Benchmarking Standards Group (ISBSG) provides to researchers and practitioners a repository of software projects' data that has been used to date mostly for benchmarking and project estimation purposes, but rarely for software defects analysis. Sigma, in statistics, measures how far a process deviates from its goal. Six Sigma focuses on reducing variations within processes, because such variations may lead to an inconsistency in achieving projects' specifications which represent "defects", which mean not meeting customers' satisfaction. Six Sigma provides two methodologies to solve organizations' problems: "Define-Measure-Analyze-Improve-Control" process cycle (DMAIC) and Design of Six Sigma (DFSS). The DMAIC focuses on improving the existed processes, while the DFSS focuses on redesigning the existing processes and developing new processes. This paper presents an approach to provide an analysis of ISBSG repository based on Six Sigma measurements. It investigates the use of the ISBSG data repository with some of the related Six Sigma measurement aspects, including Sigma defect measurement and software defect estimation. This study presents the dataset preparation consisting of two levels of data preparations, and then analyzed the quality-related data fields in the ISBSG MS-Excel data extract (Release 12 -2013). It also presents an analysis of the extracted dataset of software projects. This study has found that the ISBSG MS-Excel data extract has a high ratio of missing data within the data fields of "Total Number of Defects" variable, which represents a serious challenge when the ISBSG dataset is being used for software defect estimation.

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“…Six Sigma achieves this by focusing on the reduction of both defects and non-value added activities. Its importance has been increased recently and it has serious effects on a company's success (Tennant, 2001). Therefore, in this study, six sigma has been chosen as a quality improvement philosophy to solve the problems in production system of a pipe application.…”

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Regarding the quality oriented development and an overview of sustainability of this approach for industrial/service sectors: a case study for supply chain and production system of xb firm

Erdil¹,

Erdil²

2017

Pressacademia

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Six sigma provides to reduce cost by improving productivity and this method achieves this by focusing on the reduction of both defects and non-value added facilities. This method aims to reach zero defect in the theory improving supply chain processes. For extending and improving the effectiveness of supply chains, the critical processes of these systems must be developped. when the amount of users increase in the supply chain, processes and steps of systems will be more complex. There is an effective and usable method named as six sigma. This perspective aims to provide zero defect in the theory developping stages of supply chain. In the practical and implementation life, it is impossible because of changes, diversification in the life. This methodology has been chosen as a quality improvement technique to solve the problem in a production and supply chain system for industrial sector. By this way sustainability of Supply chains' and production processes can be provided and improved continuously. This study aims to present literature survey and overview about this quality method, six sigma and supply chain. This research includes some implementation stories, backgrounds of firms of services and industrial sectors. At the end of this study, it presents a case study of XB company and some suggestions can be offered about the case study according to the results.

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Six Sigma: SPC and TQM in Manufacturing and Services

Cited by 53 publications

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Integrating Environmental Science and the Economy: Innovative Partnerships between the Private Sector and Research Infrastructures

Integrating Environmental Science and the Economy: Innovative Partnerships between the Private Sector and Research Infrastructures

The ISBSG Software Project Repository: An Analysis from Six Sigma Measurement Perspective for Software Defect Estimation

Regarding the quality oriented development and an overview of sustainability of this approach for industrial/service sectors: a case study for supply chain and production system of xb firm

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