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Looking briefly at Lean and Six Sigma
From the course: Process Improvement Foundations
Looking briefly at Lean and Six Sigma
- A lot of the things I've been discussing in this course are parts of what are known as Lean Thinking and Six Sigma. I feel a bit of love and hate for these, because they contain lots of good ideas, but as programs I think they have some difficulties. Six Sigma doesn't really contain anything new, it's really about training your senior managers in known quality improvement techniques like SPC, quality circles, and some of the other things I've been covering on this course. The difference is that it's not the quality department, it's your senior managers, who are seconded onto the Six Sigma projects, and who drive it. I like that idea, although I can see some problems with persuading them to give up their jobs for a couple of years to join a quality improvement program. Six Sigma has recently combined itself with Lean to give it extra weight, and Lean does indeed include lots of great ideas. Again, I've been covering my…
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Optimizing your quality, costs, and time tradeoff3m 30s
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Understanding the real cost of quality5m 10s
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Reducing cost by reducing waste4m 53s
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Understanding lead time4m 34s
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Improving time business process reengineering4m 10s
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Challenge: Balancing lines and flow2m 42s
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Solution: Balancing lines and flow4m 15s
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Improving time performance: Bottlenecks4m 32s
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Improving time performance: Queues7m 4s
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Reducing lead time using a pull approach to reduce buffers4m 38s
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Thinking about your batch sizes4m 31s
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Improving quality and cost through team projects2m 56s
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Looking briefly at Lean and Six Sigma2m 13s
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