Six sigma is an effective and important management approach particularly used by multinational companies with manufacturing bases in the Asian and Pacific rim.
One of the key issues facing businesses today is how to eliminate the high cost of developing new products. This is an area where the potential of six sigma has not been widely appreciated before.
Six Sigma and the Product Development Cycle brings the six sigma approach up-to-date and explains it in a way that appeals to today's management teams. It makes the concept of six sigma easy to understand and accessible with the statistics necessary for its implementation clearly explained.
Six Sigma and the Product Development Cycle covers the integration of quality function deployment with Taguchi's methods of experimental design and statistical process control. These tools gather detailed insights into customer needs, optimize the products or services to meet these needs at the lowest practical cost, and ensure that this performance is maintained. It is a book about both six sigma and product and service development. Through this approach an organization can gain greater flexibility, shorter timescales, and the ability to react more quickly to changes or new demands in the marketplace. The approach is illustrated with practical examples from the nuclear industry, motor manufacturing, inland mail, 'emergency response' organizations and financial services.
Six Sigma and the Product Development Cycle offers insight into the incremental process that is behind six sigma. With that background, it looks at the common steps companies follow to create the culture that is so important in leading to six sigma, describing three techniques, which taken individually transform your organization's performance. The book illustrates how these techniques can be integrated, highlighting the ease with which six sigma tools can be brought together. The book addresses how to take a concept from an initial idea through to final delivery so that it achieves six sigma quality standards upon launch. The current emphasis on shorter timescales and fast-reacting companies makes this crucial knowledge for any modern organization. Six Sigma and the Product Development Cycle describes a set of tools that have been used to good effect in companies in pursuit of six sigma, it shows you how to integrate them, especially in the area of product development. The tools described are all developed and shared among organizations seeking to achieve better levels of productivity - from customer to supplier. It shows you how to be discerning in your application of the tools in order to achieve the flexibility required to use six sigma effectively.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Chapter 1 Culture; Chapter 2 What is six sigma?; Chapter 3 The transformation that is six sigma; Chapter 4 The product development cycle; Chapter 5 Quality function deployment; Chapter 6 Taguchi's techniques; Chapter 7 Statistical process control;
