Capability approach

In the following critical essay, we will utilize a ten-point checklist to evaluate an article entitled Measure the Immeasurable: The World of Smell and Taste (“MIM”). This ten-point checklist has been applied against Six Sigma project case studies. MIM is not a case study by definition, but more of a look at industries’ use of new electronic measurement techniques and the influence they can have on and the opportunities they present to companies and teams using the DMAIC. More specifically,…

Deutsche Allgemeinversicherung (DAV) is using statistical process controls (SPC) due to DAV Kundendienstgruppe (DAKG) having issues with data entry of policyholder’s applications lack of quality and technical issues. One area of customer service that required improvement overall at DAV was the ability to process information and data without mistakes, as well as retrieving it in a timely fashion. In order to do this, DAKG started measuring quality by using Statistical Process Control (SPC), which…

Amgis, a flavors and food additives company has a sudden surge in production due to increase in sales and transfer of production from an affiliate. The company requires additional labor to cope with the sudden increase in production. However, strict labor laws have limited the company to hire permanent employees, and overtime employees and forced them to engage temporary labor to keep the process flowing. The company then had to make arrangements with a third party labor provider and the…

final stage assembly line. They had reached a point where they had no additional capacity to meet the rising demand. To overcome this inefficiency and to satisfy the growing demand, Dr. Youngman and his team implemented the Theory of Constraints approach into the organization. They used a production simulator among all management units that helped them obtaining a professional planning function which led to good amounts of benefits later on. Theory of constraints style identified several…

Introduction Despite such advances, challenges remain to ensure patient safety, reduce expenses and streamline workflow. The average operating room runs at only 68% capacity, according to a recent study from the Healthcare Financial Association (HFMA) and the Heath Care Advisory Board. It indicated that improvements targeting even one procedure per day per operating room (OR) suite could translate to an additional $4 million to $7 million in annual revenue for the average-sized organization.…

hybrid procedure that associations embrace for managing high production rates and high quality, or diminishing waste in their procedures. 2. Lean Six Sigma in Industries 2.1 Benefits of lean six sigma As the meaning of Lean Six Sigma expresses the approach makes prepare upgrades that improve consumer loyalty and the money related execution. From a venture viewpoint, green belt (GB) and dark belt (BB) extends commonly return in abundance of $50k and $175k per extend, respectively, (Harry,…

What would you do if you witness someone drinking alcohol on the job? To even make matters worse what if they were a lifeguard drinking on the job. Lifeguards are paid to save lives. How would a lifeguard be able to take care of others if they are not able to take care of themselves? There are many responses people will have if they witness a lifeguard drinking on the job. This paper will go over the many responses that people will have when they witness this situation and what I would do when…

Analysis of the used policies and practises To analyse the recruitment and selection process of this organisation, a comparison with available literature must be made. By doing so the differences in the policies of the Bibliotheek Arnhem and the best practises from within the literature will surface – or not if there are none –. After these potential differences are pointed out, a recommendation is given on how to improve these factors. To start off, some of the really strong points of the…

To aid in the application of the new practices the three-step change model should be considered. The idea behind this model is that the desired change was identified through an assessment process (McLean, 2006, p.323). Which, is why this model is appropriate for Target since its need to increase consumer information security would have been identified through statistical process control. To perform the three-step change model the organization the steps are to unfreeze, move, and refreeze…

project manager and team. In addition, if sufficient resources are available, then proceed with elevating the constraint and began the process to remove the constraint of the system by increasing its capacity. At this stage in the cycle, a shared approach of identifying solutions for process improvement and by combining them, can create a specific solution to the organization 's…