Showing posts with label six sigma. Show all posts
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Wednesday, April 29, 2015

Quality Systems, Models and Theories - Promo

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This Quality Systems, Models and Theories course gives you all the information you need to be a quality systems educated professional. In less than 3 hours you are going to learn about Quality Practice and Quality Systems Theory.

You will learn about the importance of creating a clear quality mission and policy and the steps required to do so. You'll also learn about the developing and deploying a quality plan and a system for measuring its effectiveness.

Quality Practice
Quality Mission and Plans. Developing a quality mission requires collaboration among all organizational units, and is completed using several steps that we are going to learn together. The quality plan is a set of documentation that outlines an organization's quality practices, processes, and resources relating to a particular product or service.

Quality Plans Deployment. Every employee within an organization plays a part in the deployment of a quality plan. Upper management, middle management, and operative employees each play a unique and important role in rolling out the quality plan.

Measuring Effectiveness. Managers have several tools available to them to measure the strengths of their quality systems, each of which can give them a solid understanding of system effectiveness. The balanced scorecard is, one example, a measurement system that organizes a company's strategies into four balanced categories: financial, customer, internal business process and learning and growth.

And this course will provide you with a solid overview of the many different quality models and theories companies can use to improve their performance, as well as the impact various quality theorists have had on the quality movement.

Quality Systems
ISO 9000.
The ISO 9000 standards are based on eight principles of quality management that can be applied by senior managers to improve their organizations. Registration and implementation of the standards can provide companies with several benefits.

TQM. Total quality management (TQM) describes a Japanese-style approach to quality improvement, in which all members of an organization work to improve processes, products, and services, as well as their organization's culture.

CQI. Continuous quality improvement (CQI) recognizes the changing nature of customer needs. With its ultimate goal of customer satisfaction, CQI encourages managers to analyze capabilities and processes so they can be constantly improved.

Kaizen. Japanese companies use the term kaizen to describe continuous improvement at every level of an organization, which leads to improved products and services.

Six Sigma. Six Sigma has become a world standard and is significant to today's organizations that are using the methodology as part of their broader total quality management efforts to reduce process defects.

Benchmarking. An organization can use benchmarking to measure itself against best-in-class companies so it can improve its own performance. By using information gleaned from analyzing top competitors' practices, an organization can set and achieve goals that are both competitive and attainable.

Quality Theorists. Although there are far too many to discuss in detail, some of the key pioneers who have made significant contributions to the quality movement include Philip B. Crosby, W. Edwards Deming, Armand V. Feigenbaum, Kaoru Ishikawa, Joseph M. Juran, and Genichi Taguchi.

So, If you are interested in quality management and want the compact and information rich version of Quality Systems, Models and Theories, than this course is for you. Thank you for your attention and see you in the course!

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Tuesday, April 28, 2015

Quality Systems, Models and Practice - The Six Sigma Methodology

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Improve performance 
Business leaders frequently express their desire to improve their organizations' performance, while decreasing costs and reducing time spent on performing tasks. However, without a structured method to achieve these results, this desire often remains just an abstract goal – something to get around to once "real" business is taken care of.

Six Sigma Methodology
Organizations can improve their business processes by using the tools provided by the Six Sigma methodology, which can also increase performance and decrease process variation.

The term "Six Sigma quality" is often used to describe well-controlled processes. And, the company Motorola is most commonly associated with the term, after naming one of its key initiatives "Six Sigma Quality.”

Six Sigma Meaning
The Six Sigma methodology can help a company achieve breakthrough improvement through the concept of Six Sigma design. Sigma is a letter in the Greek alphabet and is frequently used as a measure of process variability in statistics. Six Sigma Requirements

Six Sigma requires that processes operate such that the nearest engineering requirement is at least plus or minus six sigma from the process mean, and a Six Sigma-capable process produces work that is nearly error free.

When operating at Six Sigma, a process will produce 3.4 parts per million (PPM) non-conformances. On a normal distribution table, a process can endure a shift of as much as 1.5 sigma in either direction before it is detected. The area beyond 4.5 sigma from the mean is 3.4 parts per million.

A World Standard
Six Sigma has become a world standard; thus, the methodology is important to today's organizations that are using it as part of their broader total quality management efforts to reduce process defects. 

First used in the 1980s, the Six Sigma quality improvement and business strategy emphasizes three key points: 3.4 defects per million opportunities, reduction of cycle time and strategy infrastructure. 

Six Sigma emphasizes that organizations accept no more than 3.4 defects per million products, including customer services. For instance, a company that manufactures airplane components originally reported defects of more than 10 parts per million, but was able to reduce these defects through Six Sigma implementation.

Another important point is Six Sigma's emphasis on reducing cycle times. Companies using the methodology will set aggressive goals of as much as a 30-50% reduction per year. The airplane components manufacturer not only reduced the time required to make each part, it was also able to reduce the time between parts being made and placed on the market.

The third Six Sigma point of emphasis is its focus on reducing costs, which can dramatically affect an organization's bottom line. Because it was able to produce parts with fewer defects in less time, the manufacturer reduced costs associated with lost time and replacing defective products.

Six Sigma Tools
Six Sigma provides organizations with the tools needed to reach their goals by incorporating two well- defined elements: six sigma strategy and six sigma infrastructure strategy The Six Sigma strategy entails all the people involved with a project working toward breakthrough improvement.

This is achieved by first defining a strategy or goal, then performing measurement, analysis, improvement, and control – the DMAIC model. infrastructure The Six Sigma infrastructure revolves around strong senior-level support and involvement. It's most successful when leadership is highly visible and fully engaged; without this level of commitment, Six Sigma initiatives rarely succeed.

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