Quality Audit Newsletter of the Rochester Section 0204 Volume 41 Issues 9 May 2004 Next dinner meeting Lean Sigma, Part 2 May 19, 2004 by Bob Stein, Advantage Quality Consulting Program: Who Moved My Today’s best practice is combining Lean Thinking and Six Sigma. In Part 1 of this Cheese? article in the March-April issue, Bob reviews the need and the definitions of both methods. Part 2 describes the combined approach. Details on page 4 Companies have found the most effective way to eliminate the flaws that Employment lead to rework and scrap, and to create one unified idea of continuous Employers please send notices of improvement, is to use a combined lean/kaizen and Six Sigma approach. job openings to our Placement This becomes a formidable tool for attacking problems that lead to an chair, Mary Tyler, excess of expense over revenues. Looking at situations through the Lean mary.c.tyler@delphi.com. Sigma methodology, companies have precise, action-oriented tools Members, please ask Mary to needed to find hidden problems while making sure they do not overlook forward the notices to you. Find the obvious. additional Job Resources on The Lean Sigma approach also increases employee satisfaction. Surveys www.asqrs.org. have found that, when supported by management, employees participating in more than six (6) improvement projects are 20% more Volunteer opportunitiesfavorable toward the company than those who have not participated. To volunteer to serve ...
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