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Lean Six Sigma
About: Lean Six Sigma is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 1919 publications have been published within this topic receiving 29142 citations.
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01 Jan 2009
TL;DR: In this article, the effectiveness of lean and six sigma, two of the most popular performance improvement methods used by manufacturers today, and the most effective way of integrating the two philosophies to achieve improvement at a fast rate.
Abstract: Recent manufacturing industry reports and research indicate that the majority of companies
seeking to achieve world class performance, or improve their business performance in an increasingly
competitive market, have not been able to change at a reasonably fast rate towards achieving their
performance targets such as lead time, delivery, quality and cost. This paper attempts to study the
effectiveness of lean and six sigma, two of the most popular performance improvement
methodologies used by manufacturers today, and highlights their strengths and weaknesses,
investigates the rationale behind combining them. The study also explores the most effective way of
integrating the two philosophies to achieve improvement at a fast rate. Most published research on
integrating lean and six sigma have been only descriptive. Descriptive research is an important step
towards explaining the rationale of integrating lean and six sigma, however, empirical research on
lean six sigma is characterised by lack of attention to implementation know how, resulting in the need
to focus on the operational side.
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01 Sep 2012
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11 Apr 2010TL;DR: A practitioner's view of how Immersive Engineering (IE) can address two issues: understanding how these models can be used in the engineering work flow and how to engage the user in this new work flow are discussed.
Abstract: Over the past ten years the use of computers in engineering design has been a continuing topic of research interest. Evaluating product designs using computers rather hardware has significant potential to save time and money as well as improve the overall product. These efforts in using computational models in product development have been focused primarily on developing engineering analysis models that can be used in design. And little effort has been focused on 1) understanding how these models can be used in the engineering work flow and 2) how to engage the user in this new work flow. This paper discusses a practitioner's view of how Immersive Engineering (IE) can address these two issues. In an IE work flow, many parts work in concert to support the customer and his products. As presented here IE is based on systems engineering principles and lean Six Sigma methodologies, where the voice of the customer (VOC) is one of the founding tenets. This paper will discuss the specific application of IE from a practitioner's viewpoint. IE is a disciplined process which has been used on 10 projects over the past 4 years. IE to date has generated on average a cost avoidance of about $1.1M per project. In addition to the cost avoidance, each project has seen an average schedule savings of 3.8 years. Some of the areas in which IE could be used within the Government include weapons platforms, vehicle design, ammo storage, and maintenance platforms.
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