…all you need to know
…all you need to know
As a Lean Six Sigma trainer I have been traveling around the UK all year teaching Yellow, Green and Black belt classes. I have noticed a large discrepancy in the number of people in classes from the South of England and the number from the North of England. Classes in Leeds, Newcastle and Edinburgh have …
A useful ( but not commonly mentioned) tool in Lean Six Sigma is called Little’s Law. Little’s Law describes the fundamental long-term relationship between Work-In-Process, throughput and flow time of a production system in a steady state: As an equation Little’s Law can be written as : Inventory =Throughput × Flow Time Little’s law …
News this week from the UK government is a classic lesson in Six-Sigma. The government wants to be the first in the World to make more information about surgeon (doctor for an operation) “success rates” available to the general public in order that they can make “better decisions” about who to choose as their surgeon. …
What are the fundamental differences between Lean Six-Sigma and other process improvement /quality improvement programs ( TQM, TQI, ISO, EFQM etc) ? Lean Six Sigma overlaps with many other quality programs in many areas however there are two keys areas in which it stands unique and alone. 1. Single Piece Flow (SPF): The restructuring …
Defining the goal of Lean Six Sigma in 4 sentences : Identify and understand the true value that the customer needs from a product of service and optimize the efficiency and effectiveness of the processes needed to produce that product or service. The optimization is achieved by reducing or eliminating waste in each process and …
