Manufacturing Industry
How to Identify and Select Lean Six Sigma Projects
Quality Progress, July, 2007 by Mader, Douglas P
Lean Six Sigma is a powerful method for improving existing products, processes and services. Six Sigma was developed by Motorola in 1987. Motorola's Six Sigma yielded significant financial results and became popular with many other companies, even though Six Sigma was practiced without the benefit of the define, measure, analyze, improve and control (DMAIC) strategy, Black Belts (BBs), or a defined project selection process.
In the mid-1990s, consultants introduced the method to Allied Signal and General Electric (GE), tying improvement to bottom-line financial performance. GE and other organizations refined the Six Sigma method and focused on identifying and selecting key projects, as well as adapting operations-based Six Sigma to service and transactional...
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