All About Six Sigma The Easy Way to Get Started

by Brussee, Warren

• ISBN13: 9780071453721
• ISBN10: 0071453725
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-09-30
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education

Summary

Takes the complexity out of Six Sigma definitions, acronyms, and diagrams Allows novices to implement a Six Sigma project immediately, without supervision Warren Brussee spent 33 years at General Electric implementing Six Sigma projects in the U.S. and internationally

Author Biography

Warren Brussee is a Six Sigma Green Belt with a decade of experience implementing and training Six Sigma. He spent 33 years at General Electric—ground zero for popularizing Six Sigma—and currently consults and teaches on the topic. Brussee is also the author of Statistics for Six Sigma Made Easy.

Table of Contents

Preface	xi
Acknowledgments	xiii
PART ONE: OVERVIEW
The History and Methodology of Six Sigma	3	(4)
Management's Role	7	(6)
Six Sigma Titles and Teams	13	(4)
Metrics and Keeping Score	17	(4)
The DMAIC Problem-Solving Method	21	(8)
PART TWO: NONSTATISTICAL SIX SIGMA TOOLS
Simplified QFDs	29	(16)
Simplified FMEAs	45	(8)
Fishbone Diagrams	53	(6)
Simplified Process Flow Diagrams	59	(6)
Visual Correlation Tests	65	(6)
Reality-Based Tolerances	71	(6)
PART THREE: GETTING GOOD DATA
Types of Data	77	(6)
Collecting Samples	83	(22)
Simplified Gauge Verification	105	(14)
PART FOUR: BASIC PROBABILITY AND PLOTTING
Probability	119	(10)
Data Plots and Distributions	129	(24)
PART FIVE: TESTING FOR STATISTICAL DIFFERENCES IN DATA
Testing for Statistically Significant Change Using Variables Data	153	(28)
Testing for Statistically Significant Change Using Proportional Data	181	(10)
Testing for Statistically Significant Change in Nonnormal Distributions	191	(8)
PART SIX: CONTROLLING A PROCESS AND TEACHING SIX SIGMA
Keeping a Process in Control	199	(6)
Teaching Six Sigma	205	(6)
PART SEVEN: MISCELLANEOUS OTHER SIX SIGMA TOOLS---OVERVIEW
Simplified Control Charts	211	(4)
Design of Experiments (DOEs)	215	(4)
RSS Tolerance Stack-Ups	219	(4)
Appendix The Six Sigma Statistical Tool Finder Matrix	223	(2)
Glossary	225	(4)
Related Reading and Software	229	(2)
Index	231