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Lean Six Sigma Chapter 18 Forms of Waste - answer DOWNTIME:
1) Defects
2) Overproduction
3) Waiting
4) Nonutilized talent
5) Transportation
6) Inventory
7) Motion
8) Extra processing
5 Lean Principles - answer1) Define Value
2) Map the Value Stream
3) Create Flow
4) Establish Pull
5) Pursue Perfection
Example of a Lean Company - answerNIKE
- utilizes Lean principles to process contract manufacturers (takes 152 days vs 246
days to become a Nike partner)
- workers engaged and enabled to drive business success through CI
- factory processes are predictable/agile in response to customer demand
Why Quality Initiatives Fail - answerPDCA: didn't bring enough tools to fix problems
Certified Quality Engineers: they weren't combined and working together
Quality Assurance/Control: gap in communication between QA team (management) and
QC team (testers)
TQM: organizations would optimize in some areas and suboptimize in others
Differences between Lean and Six Sigma - answerBoth focus on customer but...
Lean
- focuses on end-to-end perspective
- value from customer's perspective
- increase in throughput and capacity
- decreasing inventories, space and lead times
Six Sigma
- focuses on islands of suboptimization
- optimizing the organization
- making sure there is no undue variation
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