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what is six sigma ?

Originally posted by: ReelC00L
right after 5 sigma perhaps? or maybe six standard deviations from the mean?
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why the hell would you go out that far though?

As to the original question...no clue.
 
Originally posted by: FallenHero
Originally posted by: ReelC00L
right after 5 sigma perhaps? or maybe six standard deviations from the mean?
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why the hell would you go out that far though?

As to the original question...no clue.
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Better safe than sorry.
 
Some kind of business process improvement system. All I know is from my time being recruited there, GE loves it.
 
Ever heard of ISO9000?

It is basically the same thing. Do a search for either one on Google and you'll find your answer.
 
It's a quality control philosoply taught in business schools, and used extensively in manufacturing companies to reduce defects. Managers who complete the Six Sigma training programs earn "black belts" in this eastern-influenced philosophy.

ReelC00L was right - the name refers to six standard deviations from the mean, which is the maximum allowable defect target level for companies following Six Sigma. At six standard deviations from the mean, you can only have ~3.4 defects per million products produced.
 
Six sigma was created by Motorola. It's basically a business process to up efficiency. From what I read, it requires your company to have less than 3 defects per million parts. You also get some sort of ranking like Green Belt, Black Belt, etc..
 
its a bullsh!t business process system, its called six sigma for six std. dev from the mean. It basically is designed to make process for everything you do and a majority of the time its implemented its overbearing and wasteful
 
Just another means of salary justification.

A buddy of mine who works for GM told me that's why the QS9000 and variations were originally conceived back in the 1970's actually.

A bunch of higher up salaried people had to figure how to justify their jobs during major cutbacks.

They could've only imagined what future sorrows they sewed during them days.
 
all those $hit heads who promote it are so full of them goddamn selves i wantedc to cut them ear to fvcking ear








(can you tell im bitter?)
 
I took six sigma training. Another pathetic excuse for the training department people to keep their jobs.
I don't remember what this actually has to do with my job as an engineer. I guess they expect me to make 3.4 mistakes per million designs or something like that.
Basically, it's 1 day wasted that I'll never get back. It's about setting same unrealistic and irrelevant expectations for very different jobs.
 
Does any one have any url for free e-book (pdf) or more info about six sigma ?

six sigma looks like a cliche...
 
Originally posted by: Qacer
Six sigma was created by Motorola. It's basically a business process to up efficiency. From what I read, it requires your company to have less than 3 defects per million parts. You also get some sort of ranking like Green Belt, Black Belt, etc..
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it was designed and much heralded by GE and Jack Welch...

 
Originally posted by: FoolishMcNasty
Originally posted by: Qacer
Six sigma was created by Motorola. It's basically a business process to up efficiency. From what I read, it requires your company to have less than 3 defects per million parts. You also get some sort of ranking like Green Belt, Black Belt, etc..
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it was designed and much heralded by GE and Jack Welch...
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foolishmcnasty is right, it was designed by GE...

anyway, its a management-training program, with levels of rank that you go through with enough training.
 
GE didn't invent it...they made it better. Wasn't it Motorola who started it??? Yes, I believe they have the trademark too...
 
Originally posted by: Qacer
Six sigma was created by Motorola. It's basically a business process to up efficiency. From what I read, it requires your company to have less than 3 defects per million parts. You also get some sort of ranking like Green Belt, Black Belt, etc..
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They may have invented it, but they sure as hell aren't practicing it. *grumbles at stupid crappy T720i cellphone* :|
 
I used to work for GE and have first hand knowledge of what six sigma is. Its not a management training program and I think unc is right when he says Motorola started it. Six Sigma is simply a process where statistics are applied to a give process to better it. The GE building that I worked in had an initiative where every employee was to be Six Sigma certified over the course of a year and I got to help one of the Engineers with her project (I was just a contractor and didnt have to become Six Sigma certified). Others are totally right when they say its total B.S. Half of the Six Sigma projects i saw were so low quality and pointless that i came away thinking it just had to be a joke. Kind of how I feel about personality tests being given during interviews. Just more big buisness bullcrap.
 
Originally posted by: Qacer
Six sigma was created by Motorola. It's basically a business process to up efficiency. From what I read, it requires your company to have less than 3 defects per million parts. You also get some sort of ranking like Green Belt, Black Belt, etc..
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the way it was explained to me was 1 defect per million parts. Also at GE the engineers dont particularly like the Black Belts, they feel they 'do nothing.'
 
Originally posted by: ElFenix
more bullsh!t business techniques, yay!
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exactly.

Why do we have to have procedures to prove that we are doing what we say we're doing?

It's all a load of bs.
 
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