Integrating Lean And Six Sigma For Breakthrough Process Improvement
- Topics:
- Six Sigma
- Tags:
- Business Operations,
- It Operations,
- Omnex,
- Process Improvement,
- Quality,
- Quality Improvement,
- Six Sigma,
- Tqm/Six Sigma/ISO 9000
- Source:
- Omnex
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Overview: ISO 9001:2000 and ISO/TS 16949 differ from previous quality system standards in their strong emphasis on documenting and continually improving the organization’s product realization, management and supporting processes, which together make-up all of a company’s business processes. This paper promote the idea that organizations should adopt an integrated approach that deploys Lean Manufacturing principles combined with the Six Sigma quality improvement methodology as the best in class process for achieving the continual improvements required by ISO 9001:2002 and ISO/TS 16949:2002. Lean Thinking describes the underlying concepts and principles of The Toyota Production System. Six Sigma is a term developed by Motorola to describe their management process for achieving breakthrough levels of quality improvement. Hence, the new direction in quality systems standards, moving towards a process improvement model, means that more and more organizations will be required to design, develop, and deploy a management system for achieving continual process improvement.
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Format: HTML | Date: Jan 2003 | Pages: 4
