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What is Lean Six Sigma

 Definition of Lean Six Sigma

Lean Six Sigma combines continuous improvement methodologies from both Lean and Six Sigma

 

Why is productivity so high these days?

 

So why has productivity been increasing by 5% per year since 1999, while it averaged only 1.5% for the prior 25 years?

Consensus is that there are two primary reasons:
1) Widespread use of technology
2) Increasing use of powerful Lean Six Sigma methods for continuous improvement of business processes

Systems2win helps you ride both of these waves... providing fill-in-the-blanks business templates with simple on-line training to help you improve your systems for lean and six sigma continuous improvement.

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Start with Lean

There are many published case studies and multi-implementation analyses that conclude that:

  1. A Lean initiative by itself tends to start strong, then often flames out (after using 5S, Value Stream Mapping, and other Lean tools and Lean video to pick the low-hanging fruit, management might lose interest before getting to the Lean tools and methods for establishing and enforcing Standard Work - which would have prevented the all-too-common backsliding into old habits)
  2. A Six Sigma initiative by itself tends to never get off the ground - spending so much time training people and gathering data that management might lose interest before any tangible results can be produced.
  3. A combined Lean Six Sigma initiative has been repeatedly proven to yield the best results. Especially when you start by picking the low-hanging fruit with some simple Kaizen events, and then bring in the big statistical artillery at an opportune moment. (Most commonly when you get to the step on your Lean journey when you start lowering your swamps of protective inventories, which quickly begins to reveal the rocks and alligators of previously hidden quality problems. And dealing with quality problems is what Six Sigma is all about.)

 

 

What is Six Sigma?

The Six Sigma metric is a measure of quality - representing 3.4 defects out of a million opportunities.

The Six Sigma methodology consists of a popular suite of Six Sigma tools and methods.