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Certification – What’s happening to our standards?
Today we want to discuss Six Sigma certification and the decaying of certification standards, an understanding of our journey to becoming Master Black Belts will help. I started out being trained as...
Case Study 2: 13% Increase in Cell Phone Production Throughput
This week we decided we should have a look at another case study. In this case a European Cell Phone Manufacturer/Assembler with manufacturing plants in China. This Cell Phone manufacturer...
5 Steps to complete a Process Analysis
Process Analysis is one of the key areas to making significant improvements in any process. Process Analysis can take various different forms however we’ll start at the beginning. When ever we start...
How quickly can you really get improvements?
We are often asked, how quickly can we achieve some improvements? In this day and age everyone wants to make improvements straight away. It’s understandable to want to get results right away however...
5 Steps to Effectively Graphically Analyse Your Data
Businesses collect data. If your business is like most businesses you have a lot of data, and only a small proportion of the data is used in a meaningful way. However it is not uncommon to find...
Q&A: Centralised versus Decentralised?
When working on Business Improvement Deployments with larger clients we are almost always asked “Should our Business Improvement team have a centralised or a decentralised structure?” The answer is...
2 Reasons You May be Making Decisions Based on Faulty Data
Business runs on data. In fact most companies have too much data. They collect a lot of data that’s not needed, and the data that is used contains errors. This data is usually used to calculate...
4 Principles to help you to increase Process Flow; resulting in reduced cycle times, increased productivity and reducing costs
We've been involved in many improvement projects which generally can be categorised into the following objectives: Increasing throughput Reducing cycle times Increasing productivity (doing more with...
Case Study: 25% increased Throughput using TOC and Designed Experiments
An underground mining operation had been struggling with their Six Sigma program. The program had been underway for about 12 months and for various reasons had struggled to gain traction. 12...
Q&A: How would you get started if you needed quick results?
We are often asked how to get started with making improvements. We have all been in the situation where we are not getting the results needed and we need to be seen to be do something let alone...