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A business initiative first espoused by Motorola in the early 1990s, the Six Sigma strategy has become a standard statistical technique for quality improvement. Breyfogle, founder and president of a quality consulting firm, explains the implementation of Six Sigma. The text is divided into five sections centered on using his "Smarter Six Sigma Solutions"<-->deployment, measurement, analysis, improvement, and control<-->and includes examples that describe the mechanics of implementation as well as application possibilities. -- Copyright © 1999 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR All rights reserved--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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"An excellent reference book that should be on every individual involved in Six Sigma or even just quality assurance/quality improvement." (TQM Magazine) "...a useful guide for both academia and organizations...useful source of reference for researchers...an excellent reference book..." (The TQM Magazine, Vol 15(6) 2003)
Review
"An excellent reference book that should be on every individual involved in Six Sigma or even just quality assurance/quality improvement." (TQM Magazine) "...a useful guide for both academia and organizations...useful source of reference for researchers...an excellent reference book..." (The TQM Magazine, Vol 15(6) 2003)
Book Description
* Includes new and expanded coverage of Six Sigma infrastructure building and benchmarking.
* Provides plans, checklists, metrics, and pitfalls.
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This new and significantly revised edition of Implementing Six Sigma goes well beyond traditional Six Sigma methodologies, introducing an enhanced roadmap- S4/IEE (Smarter Six Sigma Solutionssm/Integrated Enterprise Excellence). This cutting-edge approach offers a solution to the common problem of sustaining Six Sigma activities and downplays the traditional policy stating that Six Sigma projects must have a defined defect. A variety of plans, checklists, metrics, and warnings of potential pitfalls provide thorough preparation for anyone implementing Six Sigma strategies. With new coverage of Six Sigma infrastructure building, benchmarking, and real-world" lessons learned, " this Second Edition is the best available tool for implementing these powerful, profit-building strategies.--This text refers to the Digital edition.
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"No other book covers–at an adequate technical level–as many topics important to Six Sigma. An indispensable reference for the Six Sigma practitioner."
—Ramon V. Leon
Associate Professor, Statistics Department of the University of Tennessee
Associate editor, Six Sigma Forum magazine "Breyfogle’s book should be valuable to every Six Sigma professional."
—Bill Scherkenback
Director, Samsung Quality Team "The seamless integration of statistical methodologies . . . helps organizations execute their strategic plans and track both short- and longer-term strategic progress within their various departments and overall organizations."
—Donald C. Fisher, PhD
Executive Director, MSQPC–The Quality Center "Implementing Six Sigma provides the most up-to-date material on the topic, complete with a project infrastructure roadmap and hundreds of real-life examples and exercises."
—Frank Shines
Project Manager, Pilgrim Software This new and significantly revised edition of Implementing Six Sigma goes well beyond traditional Six Sigma methodologies, introducing an enhanced roadmap–S4/IEE (Smarter Six Sigma Solutionssm/Integrated Enterprise Excellence). This cutting-edge approach offers a solution to the common problem of sustaining Six Sigma activities and downplays the traditional policy stating that Six Sigma projects must have a defined defect. A variety of plans, checklists, metrics, and warnings of potential pitfalls provide thorough preparation for anyone implementing Six Sigma strategies. With new coverage of Six Sigma infrastructure building, benchmarking, and real-world "lessons learned," this Second Edition is the best available tool for implementing these powerful, profit-building strategies.
About the Author
FORREST W. BREYFOGLE III is the founder and President of Smarter Solutions, Inc., a company specializing in training and consulting in Six Sigma methodologies. He is the author of Statistical Methods for Testing, Development, and Manufacturing and Implementing Six Sigma and coauthor of Managing Six Sigma, all published by Wiley. Rating 4.5
The Best Six Sigma Text Book!!!I have been in the Six Sigma and Lean fields since 1995 and a Six Sigma Master Black Belt since 1999.
I hold GB, BB and MBB certifications by the Six Sigma Academy and by Johnson & Johnson.
And I can say that Mr. Brefogle's is the best Six Sigma text book available. I use it as a text book for all my Green, Black, and Master Black Belt classes.
I have read many Six Sigma books and I rate this book, "Implementing Six Sigma" as the best in its class.
One particular thing I like is the advice he offers on avoiding the wrong use or interpretation of some of the tools, i.e., process capability, experimentation traps, etc.
Again, I highly recommend it!Indepth resides here onlyAlthough 'Implementing Six Sigma' is a deep impact six sigma book available so far,but thing is how you estimate size of six sigma as to study.It will take ~3000 pages or more to ellobrate all aspect of six sigma including use of Minitab which is not in Forrest Brefogle 'implementing six sigma' book.
So,best way is to make practicles/projects for yourself since no book uptill now as a full glance of six sigma theoritically & practically.
Buying this book made my competitors far away behind me w.r.t knowledge.It's proven, It's authoritative, It's big and that's OK !I simply think 5 stars every time I open this book! It addresses both six sigma organizational skills and statistical methodologies. It describes the application of statistical tools (with no BULL) to improve both the efficiency and effectiveness of the process (and organization) in meeting customer needs. I teach with this book every spring semester!! Sure I have to pick and choose from chapters. Sure 30,000 foot is 'high', but it is how organizations think and then execute! Thank you, Thank you . . . John Wiley! |
