Leaning Into Six Sigma: A Parable of the Journey to Six Sigma and a Lean Enterprise

by Barbara Wheat, Chuck Mills, Mike Carnell

Overview

A brief business novel about combining today's two most powerful quality initiatives

Leaning Into Six Sigma shows managers how to combine today's two most popular continuous improvement methodologies-- Lean Enterprise and Six Sigma--for dramatically improved quality and cycle time.

This concise and fast-paced "business novel" tells the story of how one skeptical company gradually came to understand and implement a Lean Six Sigma initiative--improving quality at all levels of the organization. This engaging story will help employees and managers understand basic quality concepts from Design of Experiments (DOE) to Analysis of Variance (ANOVA), while learning how to:

• Implement work cells and preventive maintenance
• Get rid of excess inventory
• Speed up processes

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780071428941
Publisher:	McGraw Hill LLC
Publication date:	03/22/2003
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	120
File size:	278 KB

About the Author

Barbara Wheat is the Director of Six Sigma for Ingersoll-Rand Tool and Hoist Division, where she brings the tools and techniques of both Lean Enterprise and Six Sigma together to institutionalize a world-class system of continuous improvement.

Chuck Mills has taught and implemented Lean Enterprise tools and techniques to forward-thinking organizations both in the United States and Europe.

Mike Carnell is President of Six Sigma Applications, one of the oldest and most experienced Six Sigma providers.

Table of Contents

	Foreword	vii
	Introduction	ix
1.	SG, Inc.	1
2.	First Impressions of the Plant	4
3.	Workplace Organization and the Five S's	13
4.	The Results of Five S Implementation	21
5.	Six Sigma Strategy for Sid	24
6.	Defining Six Sigma	30
7.	Implementing Six Sigma	33
8.	The Crow's Nest	37
9.	A New Commitment	46
10.	Lean: Listening to the Process	50
11.	Full Circle: Lean to Six Sigma to Lean to Six Sigma	58
12.	Getting Organized to Get Me Out	74
	Index	81