Michael L. George Bücher

Das Buch führt in Lean Six Sigma ein und zeigt, wie Lean Six Sigma dazu beiträgt, dass Unternehmen in einer Welt erfolgreich sind, in der die Kunden hohe Qualität und kurze Lieferzeiten zu minimalen Kosten erwarten. Die ersten sechs Kapitel befassen sich mit den Grundsteinen von Lean Six Sigma: Sie führen in das Grundvokabular und die Grundkonzepte ein. Die übrigen Kapitel widmen sich der Anwendung von Lean Six Sigma: Nach Erläuterung der Lean-Werkzeuge wird anhand von Fallstudien aus der Praxis gezeigt, welche Konzepte und Methoden erfolgreich in Unternehmen angewandt wurden, um die Arbeitsumgebung zu verbessern und wie die Leser die Methode im eigenen Unternehmen einführen und umsetzen können.

Provides the tools for implementing Lean Six Sigma - what they are, how they work, and which to use. This book presents the tools and concepts needed to understand, implement, and leverage Lean Six Sigma. It provides analyses of nearly 100 tools and methodologies - from DMAIC and Pull Systems to Control Charts and Pareto Charts.

The program outlined focuses on enhancing quality and reducing cycle times to boost shareholder value across all organizational areas. Time and quality are critical metrics for improving production and profit performance. By integrating Lean Production and Six Sigma, this approach offers a comprehensive roadmap for leveraging the strengths of both initiatives. While each has transformed manufacturing independently, their combination serves as a powerful tool for enhancing product quality, production efficiency, and overall profitability. This dynamic program streamlines performance in production and back-office operations, delivering essential cost reductions and quality improvements to maintain a competitive edge. The book details how Lean and Six Sigma methods complement each other and provides a clear implementation roadmap, enabling organizations to achieve significant returns in under a year. Businesses exist to generate returns for stakeholders, and this program harnesses the synergies of Lean and Six Sigma to increase speed, reduce process variation, and enhance bottom-line impact. It serves as a practical guide for merging Lean Enterprise efficiencies with Six Sigma's cost and quality tools. By applying these principles to both manufacturing and service processes, the program promises to revolutionize performance efficiencies and significantly enhance shareholder value across the organization.

Bring the miracle of Lean Six Sigma improvement out of manufacturing and into services Much of the U.S. economy is now based on services rather than manufacturing. Yet the majority of books on Six Sigma and Lean--today's major quality improvement initiatives--explain only how to implement these techniques in a manufacturing environment. Lean Six Sigma for Services fills the need for a service-based approach, explaining how companies of all types can cost-effectively translate manufacturing-oriented Lean Six Sigma tools into the service delivery process. Filled with case studies detailing dramatic service improvements in organizations from Lockheed Martin to Stanford University Hospital, this bottom-line book provides executives and managers with the knowledge they need

A quick introduction on how to use Lean Six Sigma to improve your workplace, meet your goals, and better serve your customers. Lean Six Sigma combines the two most important improvement trends of our time: making work better (using Six Sigma) and making work faster (using Lean principles). In this plain-English guide, you’ll discover how this remarkable quality improvement method can give you the tools to identify and eliminate waste and quality problems in your own work area. Packed with diagrams, cartoons, and real-life examples, What is Lean Six Sigma? reveals the “four keys” of Lean Six Sigma and how they apply to your own job: