Wiley, 2010. – 327 p. – ISBN: 0470539577, 9780470539576 In this difficult economic climate, it's vital to cut waste that can eat at a company's bottom line and boost efficiency at every organizational level. The traditional business solution in a crisis is to slash away non-critical talent and resources, often doing more harm than good. There is a far better systematic approach...
McGraw-Hill Professional – 2004, 560 p. ISBN: 0071443290, 9780071443296 When you're ready to tackle your business's most intractable problems, you're ready for The Six Sigma Black Belt Handbook. Going far beyond simplified or hypothetical explanations of Six Sigma aimed at novices, this Handbook delivers practical, working tools to sophisticated Six Sigma practitioners. You get...
2nd edition, Productivity Press, 403 p., ISBN10: 0743249275, ISBN13: 978-0743249270 In the revised and updated edition of Lean Thinking: Banish Waste and Create Wealth in Your Corporation, authors James P. Womack and Daniel T. Jones provide a thoughtful expansion upon their value-based business system based on the Toyota model. Along the way they update their action plan in...
McGraw-Hill Professional – 2007, 385 p. ISBN: 007148969X, 9780071489690 Now with the help of this one-stop resource, operations and production managers can learn all the powerful statistical techniques for Six Sigma operations, while becoming proficient at Excel and Minitab at the same time. Six Sigma Statistics with Excel and Minitab offers a complete guide to Six Sigma...
McGraw-Hill Professional, 2009. – 560 p. – 3rd ed. – ISBN: 0071623388, 9780071623384 The authoritative classic-revised and updated for today's Six Sigma practitioners Whether you want to further your Six Sigma training to achieve a Black or Green Belt or you are totally new to the quality-management strategy, you need reliable guidance. The Six Sigma Handbook, Third Edition...
Wiley, 2012. — 408 p. — 2 nd ed. — ISBN: 9781118120354. The world's largest and most profitable companies — including the likes of GE, Bank of America, Honeywell, DuPont, Samsung, Starwood Hotels, Bechtel, and Motorola — have used Six Sigma to achieve breathtaking improvements in business performance, in everything from products to processes to complex systems and even in work...
2nd edition. — McGraw-Hill Professional, 2010. — 498 p. — ISBN: 0071749098, 9780071749091. Your LEAN and mean guide to Lean Six Sigma. Ready to implement better, faster, cheaper, more-profitable processes in your organization? Lean Six Sigma Demystified, Second Edition, shows you how to use proven techniques for simplifying, streamlining, and optimizing business practices for...
McGraw-Hill Professional – 2009, 763 p., 2nd edition ISBN: 0071547673, 9780071547673 Hailed as a classic in its first edition, Design for Six Sigma has been fully revised and updated to equip you with everything you need to implement Design for Six Sigma (DFSS) in new product and service development. The Second Edition of this indispensable design tool retains the core of the...
Prentice Hall, 2008 P. 1015 Introduction Different Methods for Different Purposes Part I Six Sigma Methodology Overview: Choosing the Right Approach to Address the Requirements Section 1 Define-Measure-Analyze-Improve-Control (DMAIC) Section 2 Lean and Lean Six Sigma Section 3 Design for Six Sigma (DFSS) Section 4 Six Sigma for Marketing (SSFM) Part II Six Sigma Tools and...
Wiley – 2010, 554 p. ISBN: 0470405465, 9780470405468 This proposal constitutes an algorithm of design applying the design for six sigma thinking, tools, and philosophy to software design. The algorithm will also include conceptual design frameworks, mathematical derivation for Six Sigma capability upfront to enable design teams to disregard concepts that are not capable...
InTeOp, 2012. — 304 p. — ISBN: 9535106883; 9789535106883. This volume can help those who are interested in the quality management field to understand core ideas along with contemporary efforts done in the field and authored as case studies in this volume. This volume may be useful to students, academics and practitioners across diversified disciplines. In order to survive in a...
Auerbach Publications – 2007, 220 p. ISBN: 0849391857 The effect Lean Manufacturing programs have on profit and loss statements during the early months of their implementation often causes them to be viewed as failures. The length of time it will take traditional financial reports to reflect lean manufacturing improvements depends upon how poorly the operation was doing in...
McGraw-Hill, 2003. - 830 p. The most comprehensive Six Sigma reference available, now revised and expanded. Completely rewritten and reorganized, this second edition of The Six Sigma Handbook covers all the basic statistics and quality improvement tools of the Six Sigma quality management system. This new edition reflects the developments in Six Sigma over the past few years...
Springer – 2012, 314 p. Series "Use R!" ISBN: 1461436516, 9781461436522 Six Sigma has arisen in the last two decades as a breakthrough Quality Management Methodology. With Six Sigma, we are solving problems and improving processes using as a basis one of the most powerful tools of human development: the scientific method. For the analysis of data, Six Sigma requires the use of...
McGraw-Hill – 2005, 68 p. ISBN: 0071455485, 9780071455480 Six Sigma for Managers is a practical overview on how to implement Six Sigma practices in everyday business. Emphasizing straightforward explanations instead of complex charts and statistics, it shows managers how to map processes, measure smart, and follow other Six Sigma principles. 24 Lessons to Understand and Apply...
Wiley – 2006, 404 p. ISBN: 0471694908, 9780471694908 This is the first book to completely cover the whole body of knowledge of Six Sigma and Design for Six Sigma with Simulation Methods as outlined by the American Society for Quality. Both simulation and contemporary Six Sigma methods are explained in detail with practical examples that help understanding of the key features of...
CRC Press, 2013. — 242 p. — (Industrial Innovation Series). — ISBN: 1466514248, 978-1466514249 Although most agree that Lean Six Sigma is here to stay, they also agree that learning how to sustain the results seems problematic at best and unattainable at worst. Reverting to the old way of doing things is inevitable if sustainability measures are not a part of the methodology....
Graeme Knowles & Ventus Publishing ApS, 2011. –179 p. – ISBN: 88776818524, 9788776818524 Six Sigma is one of the most important developments in the field of business improvement. It is also one of the most over-hyped and misunderstood initiatives, leading to confusion and controversy. Those studying or working in the area need to understand not only the mechanics of conducting...
McGraw-Hill Professional – 2005, 476 p. ISBN: 0071458913, 9780071458917 Move Six Sigma Savings to Your Bottom Line Most business process improvement activities do not yield the P&L dollar savings impact that executives expect to see. If this is a challenge in your organization, you need Six Sigma Financial Tracking and Reporting. This operating manual shows Master Black Belts,...
CRC Press, 2014. — 616 p. — ISBN: 9781482246995, 9781439897829 The next step in the evolution of the organizational quality field, Lean Six Sigma (LSS) has come of age. However, many challenges to using LSS in lieu of, in conjunction with, or integrated with other quality initiatives remain. An update on the current focus of quality management, Quality Management for...
CRC Press – 2009, 364 p. ISBN: 1420068792, 9781420068795 Historically, the integration of manufacturing methodologies into the office environment has proven to be problematic. Part of the difficulty lies in the fact that process workflows tend to be globally dispersed and thus rely heavily on information technology. But in complex service systems that contain a mix of...
McGraw-Hill – 2010, 192 p. ISBN: 9780071738873 All the value of six sigma-Immediate resultsnow available without the overhead! In today's economy, organizations need to improve quality, solve problems, and increase efficiencies on the fly — and Six Sigma has proven its worth to large and small companies around the world in all these areas. Written by a leading Six Sigma expert,...
John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2006. — 312 p. — ISBN: 0470045191, 9780470045190. Improve your efficiency - and bring in big profits! Need help implementing or understanding Six Sigma? Want to take this powerful problem-solving methodology and apply it to your business? Six Sigma isn't just for Fortune 500 companies anymore; it's for every business, even yours, no matter how big or...
McGraw-Hill – 2003, 249 p. ISBN: 0071411836, 9780071411837 Six Sigma demands results. These results are delivered by projects that are tightly linked to customer demands and enterprise strategy. If you're leading a Six Sigma initiative in your organization, this hands-on guide is designed to help you achieve these results quickly and effectively by treating a Six Sigma project...
2nd Ed. — ClydeBank Media LLC, 2017. — 123 p. — ISBN10: 1945051140, 13 978-1945051142. The Lean manufacturing method combines aggressive waste reduction with continuous improvement. Interpreted from the Toyota Production System, Lean manufacturing has been transforming the way countless organizations cut costs, improve responsiveness, and thrill their customers. Six Sigma...
Wiley, 2008. — 412 p. — ISBN: 0470170808, 9780470170809. Detailed guidance on developing Lean Six Sigma processes. In the race to remain competitive in a global economy, businesses are looking for methods to continuously improve software projects and to make the software they produce more reliable.. Increasingly, government agencies and commercial companies are turning to Lean...
Bookboon, 2011. — 208 p. — ISBN: 978-87-7681-768-8. The business world is competitive, and often cut-throat. Improving your business management can give you the competitive advantage you need to grow your business and thrive. Management techniques such as Lean Speed and Six Sigma are well-known for helping managers and businesses improve. In fact, these are two of the leading...
McGraw-Hill Professional – 2005, 854 p. ISBN: 0071451625 The Statistical Tool Necessary to Identiffy and Solve any DFSS Problem Design for Six Sigma Statistics meticulously details 59 mathematical procedures for executing DFSS programs, isolating and identifying problems, and solving them before the actual product launch. More than an introduction to statistical concepts and...
Wiley, 2010. — 506 p. — ISBN: 0470506911, 9780470506912 Cox I., Gaudard M.A., Ramsey P.J., Stephens M.L., Wright L. Because of its unique visual emphasis, Visual Six Sigma opens the doors for you to take an active role in data-driven decision making, empowering you to leverage your contextual knowledge to pose relevant questions and make sound decisions. This book shows you how...
CRC Press, 2015. — 232 p. — ISBN: 1482243539, 9781482243529, 9781482243536 Lean Six Sigma (LSS) is an emerging process and product management strategy that combines the quality and customer satisfaction benefits of Six Sigma with the cost reduction benefits of Lean manufacturing. The need for LSS has been brought on by increased global competition, sustained financial crises,...
Wiley – 2011, 524 p., 2nd edition ISBN: 0470741740, 9780470741740 As Six Sigma evolves, it continues to be used worldwide to identify and remove causes of nonconformance and to reduce variability in manufacturing, business and healthcare processes. It is applied through a structured, project-based approach that places emphasis on the use of statistical methods. This new edition...
McGraw-Hill Professional, 2005. — 466 p. — (Six SIGMA Operational Methods). — ISBN: 0071445552, 9780071445559. For Six Sigma professionals taking on the challenges of mapping quality procedures for service sectors, there's no better guide than quality expert Kai Yang's Design for Six Sigma for Service. This comprehensive handbook aggressively tackles the difficulties involved...
2nd ed. — Taylor & Francis, 2015. — 302 p. — ISBN: 9781498739610, 149873961X A hybrid methodology, Lean Six Sigma (LSS) is designed to accommodate global challenges and constraints by capitalizing on Six Sigma and Lean Thinking. LSS incorporates best practices from programs such as the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), Capability Maturity Model, and Total...
Wiley, 2011. — 256 p. — ISBN: 0470666218, 9780470666210 To some, the near perfection of the Six Sigma management system appears to be an impossible ideal, especially for small and medium enterprises. Fit Sigma TM, a flexible and more sustainable approach, was developed through the integration of the ‘hard' Six Sigma approach with Lean Enterprise philosophy. It consists of three...
McGraw-Hill, 2000. — 448 p. This title is an implementation blueprint for Six Sigma! ""The Six Sigma Way" demystifies Six Sigma with a real-world 'how-to 'guide. A good investment for any business planning to launch Six Sigma." - John Biedry, VP Quality and Compliance, Sears Home Services. Cost reduction - productivity improvement - customer retention - these are the promises...
CRC Press, 2016. — 247 p. — ISBN: 9781498745437, 1498745431 Books in the Quality and Business Excellence series can help readers enhance customer value and satisfaction by integrating the customer's voice into design, manufacturing, supply chain, and field processes. Although there are many Six Sigma books on the market, few clarify the essential aspects of its implementation...
McGraw-Hill – 2003, 269 p. ISBN: 0071431470, 9780071431477 Six Sigma has become a widely recognized strategic tool to improve business performance and profitability. Many books cover basic Six Sigma concepts, but none detail the most critical element of its improvement methodology: performance measurements. Without a strong grasp of performance metrics, a company can have no...
Productivity Press, 2014 - 540 p. Performance management, the primary focus of a Lean organization, occurs through continuous improvement programs that focus on education, belief systems development, and effective change management. Presenting a first-of-its-kind approach,The Lean Management Systems Handbookdetails the critical components required for sustainable Lean...
Springer, 2014. — 390 p. — ISBN: 9781447155829, 9781447155836. This book provides a detailed description of how to apply Lean Six Sigma in the health care industry, with a special emphasis on process improvement and operations management in hospitals. The book begins with a description of the Enterprise Performance Excellence (EPE) improvement methodology developed by the...
Butterworth-Heinemann – 2005 ,245 p. ISBN: 0750662182, 9780750662185 Six sigma is an effective and important management approach particularly used by multinational companies with manufacturing bases in the Asian and Pacific rim. One of the key issues facing businesses today is how to eliminate the high cost of developing new products. This is an area where the potential of six...
Wiley, 2003. — 1231 p. — 2nd ed. — ISBN: 0471265721, 9780471265726 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...
J. Ross Publishing, Inc., 2005. — 232 p. — ISBN: 1932159215, 9781932159219 About 80% of the industrialized world has not taken advantage of Six Sigma techniques to improve productivity and profit. These small and mid-sized corporations can benefit from Six Sigma methods but are struggling with how to deploy them on the scale suitable for their organizations. This book explains...
Prentice Hall – 2006, 400 p. ISBN: 0132291959, 9780132291958 Prior to its release, the publisher asked me to review this and Design for Six Sigma for Green Belts and Champions: Applications for Service Operations-Foundations, Tools, DMADV, Cases, and Certification (Six Sigma) both by Levine et al. I found each to be well though out a good presentation of materials to get...
Butterworth-Heinemann – 2003, 272 p. ISBN: 0750657650, 9780750657655 There are a number of distinctive features of this book that makes it different from other on Six Sigma. It recognizes that there are two diametrically opposing views expressed on Six Sigma, those that are strongly in favour, and those that are not, for various reasons. The book deals, head on, with the...
Wiley, 2006. — 322 p. — ISBN: 0471681512, 9780471681519 The ideas and concepts that comprise Beyond Six Sigma: Profitable Growth Through Customer Value Creation represent the culmination of a broad range of work by the authors with numerous companies across multiple industries. With more than a century of combined experience, we hope to share the rigorous process-based approach...
Wiley – 2005, 222 p. ISBN: 0471668117, 9780471668114 Six Sigma in many organizations simply means defining and measuring quality; a working system designed to identify that elusive goal, perfection. Companies such as GE, Microsoft, and 3M have used this approach to eliminate product defects, reduce cycle time, and improve customer satisfaction. Six Sigma may sound intimidating,...
John Wiley & Sons, 2005. — 370 p. Learn how Lean IT can help companies deliver better customer service and value. Lean Enterprise Systems effectively demonstrates how the techniques derived from Lean Manufacturing, combined with the thoughtful application of information technology, can help all enterprises improve business performance and add significant value for their...
Wiley, 2008. — 311 p. — ISBN: 9780470007518, 0470007516 Design for Lean Six Sigmais the only book that employs a "road-map" approach to DFSS, which allows corporate management to understand where they are in the process and to integrate DFSS methodology more fully into their overall business strategy. This is a similar approach to that used by Forrest Breyfogle in his...
Auerbach Publications, 2007. — 488 p. — 2nd ed. — ISBN: 1420044265, 9781420044263 I was really excited to find a book merging Six Sigma and Software Development, but after reading the book, I still have no idea "how" I would implement the methodology. Tayntor clearly understands the Six Sigma theory and practice, but fails to convice me of its relevance to system development...
New edition. — Gower Pub Co., 2014. — 170 p. — ISBN: 0566092042, 9780566092046 Bikash Chatterjee's guide to lean manufacturing, six sigma and operational excellence in the pharmaceutical and biotech industries explores how these techniques can be applied across every aspect of the business; from the earliest processes of project selection through the clinical trial process,...
Pfeiffer, 2006. – 256 p. – 0787985333, 9780787985332 This important resource translates the popular Six Sigma methodologies, tools, and techniques in a way that is customized specifically for the design, implementation, and measurement of employee development programs. A proven alternative to the Kirkpatrick Model, this new model offers a more effective method for designing and...
Wiley, 2003. — 137 p. — ISBN: 0471281565, 9780471281566 A practical, straightforward guide to Six Sigma for employees in organizations contemplating or implementing Six Sigma From noted Six Sigma consultant and author George Eckes, Six Sigma for Everyone explains the underpinnings of the revolutionary quality assurance methodology, offers in-depth examples, and outlines the...
Wiley, 2012. — 396 p. — ISBN: 0470711833, 9780470711835 The Six Sigma methodology is characterised by the concurrent and integrated use of managerial and statistical techniques. This special feature makes the methodology not always understandable or easily applicable. In this book we present the methodology through the illustration of the most widespread techniques and tools...
Productivity Press, 1999. – 828 p. – ISBN: 0471296597, 9780471296591 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...
McGraw-Hill, 2001. — 98 p. A brief introduction to Six Sigma for employees. Six 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 of Six Sigma. Unlike almost all other books on Six Sigma, it is written for the...
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