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Six Sigma at a
Glance
Alan Larson
One of the original divisional quality directors
at Motorola
• Developing
• Training
• Deploying
the culture and methods of Six Sigma
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How to establish improvement programs
Customer focused
Team based
Deployed throughout the entire workforce
Applicable to
• Manufacturing
• Administrative
• Service
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Six-step continuous improvement methods
1. Create the operational statement and metric
2. Define the improvement teams
3. Identify potential causes
4. Investigation and root cause identification
5. Make improvement permanent
6. Demonstrate improvement and celebrate
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JUSE seven tools
• Pareto diagram
• Fishbone diagram
• Check sheet
• Histogram
• Stratification
• Scatter diagram
• Charting
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The Basics of Six
Sigma
What is
Six sigma and continuous improvement
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What is
Six sigma and continuous improvement
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What is
Six sigma and continuous improvement
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What is
Six sigma and continuous improvement
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Why Six Sigma had
to be invented
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Motorola’s systems for doing business
– Contract review
– Response to requests for quote
– Response to customer complaints
– ……
• Were not designed for customer satisfaction
• The internal bureaucracy fed on itself
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Motorola’s product suffers
• Too many out-of-box failures
• High level of early-life failure
– Warranty returns
– Were predominately units that
» Had failed at final test
» Had gone through a rework cycle
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Motorola’s reaction
• Benchmark those Japanese companies that were
destroying Motorola
– Senior managers and executives sent on a
benchmarking tour of Japan
» Operating methods
» Product quality method
• Discovered
– National program for employee involvement
» Use employee’s muscle and their brains and
knowledge
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The Birth of Six
Sigma
Motorola learned
From customers
• Need to change all systems to focus on total
customer satisfaction
From Japanese
• Involvement all employees to increase efficiency
and moral
• Simpler designs result higher levels of quality and
reliability
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From early-life field failure study
• Products need to be built right the first time
Motorola’s leader pulled this together to
establish vision and
set the framework for
six sigma
Six Sigma was launched in 1987
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Mathematics of Six
Sigma
• Opportunities-for-error
• DPMO: defect per million opportunity
A way of leveling the playing field
Manufacturing operations vs order-entry work
Account for differing complexities
An invoice consisting of 40 line items vs 2 line
items
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Sigma calculations are controversial
Attribute data
– Go, no-go
• Utilizing normal curve and z-table violates many of
the rules of statistics
Accounting for variation over time by adding
1.5 sigma to the actual z-table
Sigma calculations are developed
empirically
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Black belts and
Green belts
Local statistical resources (LSR)
Engineers trained in advanced form
• Experimental design
• Data analysis
• Process control
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Total customer satisfaction (TCS) team
Factory workers
Received training and couching in problem-
solving methods
Green belt
“Black belts” and “Green belts” were not
applied to six sigma program at Motorola
until the 1990s
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Avoid special-assignment employee with
the title of “Black Belt”
External to the operations that they support
• Expensive
• Less-than-optimum structure for six sigma
– Disenfranchise most employee
– Convenient way for employee to abandon their
responsibility
Only result in short term benefits
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Requirements for
Six Sigma
Transformation
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4. Facilitators
• Employees with aptitude and received
required training
4. Communication
• Everyone understand what is expected
4. Senior executive behavior
• Model the expectations of six sigma
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“Six Sigma is a successful evolution of
total quality management systems.”
Larson, p. 19, chapter 2
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TQM definition
Total: Everyone committed
Quality: Meeting the customers’ expectation
Management: Collaborative focus
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Six Sigma Definition
“Within a Six Sigma system, everyone is
committed to meet the customers’
expectations through the use of a
collaborative focus.”
Larson, p. 20, chapter 2
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Senior Management
Role
Create Six Sigma culture
– Models new rules and norms
– Enable all the good things to happen
• Set the vision
– Framework of how the company will function to serve its
customer base
» Mission
» Objectives
» Strategies
» Tactics
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• All operations and functions concentrate on total
customer satisfaction
– Mechanism in place to determine customer satisfaction
levels
– Metrics in place to measure the quality level
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• Suppliers relations
– Buying based on price only or
– Buying from the lowest-cost-to-do-business-with
• Employee empowerment
– Training, Training, Training
– People are challenged to work more efficiently
– Team are abundant
• Reward and recognition systems
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Change Management
for transition to six
sigma
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What do you want?
Commit for a very long period of time to make it work
Six Sigma culture
• Focuses on the voice of the customer
• Includes teaming and empowerment
• Complete organizational development
– Vision
– Mission
– Objectives
– Strategies
– Tactics
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Commits resources
• Time available during working hours
– Improvement
– Training
• Selects initial green belts and black belts
– Create an environment where everyone is a positive
change agents
• Identifies internal and external resources
– Phase out external as internal developed
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Select the initial projects
Start with your customer data
• Complaints
• Returns
– Pareto Diagram
» Prioritize the chronic reasons for customer
dissatifactions
• Annual customer satisfaction survey
– Third party service providers
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Data of cost of poor quality
• Rework & repair cost
• In-process scrap cost
• Damage control cost
– Customer service
• Final inspection cost
• Lost business
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Collecting Data
Six sigma culture
• Decisions are made
• Programs are established
based on DATA
Establishes way to collect data
• If customer is lost, follow up
• Data to identify where your problems are
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Goal of Six Sigma
Ten-fold improvement
Every two years
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Identify required teams
Cross functional view
• Recruit team members from every units involved
• EX: parties involved in delivering products &
services late
– Sales: receiving the orders
– Order entry personnel
– Production control
– Manufacturing engineering
– …….
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