Six Sigma

[Snoozan]

I also worked for an insurance company for GE where they jammed the Six Sigma down our throats. I am green belt certified, but I couldn't tell you anything about it now. My company has since been bought out by yet another insurance company and this one does not have the Six Sigma mentality - thank goodness! Actually, I think this methodology would work best in production environment, not in the "paper" world of insurance. Alot of the processes that got changed due to Six Sigma slowly got changed back as it was realized the ways of the "good old days" actually worked better!

 

[WebmasterMaryJo]

I've been trained as a Lean Facilitator, but didn't go as far as Six Sigma. We're Aerospace, and have six sigma - few black belts in our Facilities organization.
My cousin has a few companies in Spain, and he & I had some interesting discussions on Lean, Six Sigma, Just in Time, etc..... the rest of the family just looked at us like lol

 

[WebmasterMaryJo]

I will ask DH for a good layman's dedfinition tonight and try to post. I ought to know as it is pretty much his entire job and has been going on 5 years now He is forever threatening to 5 S my kitchen--whatever THAT means (something about having a certain place for everything and photos on the inside of the cabinets of the set up--NOT).
He is a Six Sigma Black Belt and a LEAN systems Master Black belt and does lots of trainings and leads dozens of Kaizens (my knowledge of that is to not call during a kaizen and know that the company is paying to order in lunch on those days ) It all Greek (or sould I say Japanese?) to me

Okay, that's I want to use that on my kids & their rooms!

 

[ChrizJen]

Sounds a lot like "The Bobs"...

 

[countingthedays]

Can you explain the Six Sigma doctrine? Sorry I am new.

I'll take a stab at the layman's definition. It's controlling your process to reduce or elimate variables whereby you get an output of fewer than 3.4 defects per million opportunities. An example of the results of 6sigma: Wrigley's packaged gum. Each piece has an inner foil wrapper and an outter paper wrapper, I'm going to say 100% of the time. I say 100% because as a lifelong gum chewer (I'm sure I've had over a million pieces) I've never seen a piece of gum that didn't have both wrappers. Actually, Wrigley is better than 6 sigma (number of defects per opportunities)

I will ask DH for a good layman's dedfinition tonight and try to post. I ought to know as it is pretty much his entire job and has been going on 5 years now He is forever threatening to 5 S my kitchen--whatever THAT means (something about having a certain place for everything and photos on the inside of the cabinets of the set up--NOT).
He is a Six Sigma Black Belt and a LEAN systems Master Black belt and does lots of trainings and leads dozens of Kaizens (my knowledge of that is to not call during a kaizen and know that the company is paying to order in lunch on those days ) It all Greek (or sould I say Japanese?) to me

Glad to see you're not letting your DH bring his work home!

People who 5S at home scare me!

 

[Pungodingy]

I'm a green belt, but at a new company that doesn't do it yet.