Six Sigma Heretic
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ROI President Steve Ouellette writes a popular monthly article for Quality Digest's InsideSixSigma online newsletter. These articles humorously (and usefully) discuss the good, the bad, and the ugly of how Six Sigma is implemented. You can access those articles here. If you want to be notified via an RSS feed as new articles are published, scroll down to the bottom of the page and click on the |
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Measurement System Analysis
Don't judge a gauge by its stickerI seem to be thinking about the measurement phase a lot recently. I suppose it’s because I’ve seen some teams working hard on problems that turned out to be nothing more than problems with measurement. Let me give you an example. |
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One of the most useful diagnostic tools for understanding what is going on in a process is the statistical process control chart (SPC). This is also a frequently misunderstood tool, and these misunderstandings lead to misdirected effort during a Six Sigma process, resulting in lost time and money. All the questions related to these foiled efforts boil down to this, “I used my software to make a control chart, but the chart looks all messed up. Why doesn’t SPC work?” It does, if you avoid some common pitfalls. So today, I am kicking off a few articles about these pitfalls that I hope will make your projects less frustrating and more efficient. |
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Six Sigma's lead instructor Steven Ouellette wrote an article with Dr. Jeffrey Luftig on "The Decline of Ethical Behavior in Business."
Six Sigma Online's lead instructor Steven Ouellette was profiled in the June 2008 issue of Quality Digest magazine. If you want to learn more about Steve's peculiar view of the world, as well as what he studied for a year in Europe, read the profile online.
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