Process capability index

statement in that particular case dealt with many surgeries are being canceled less than 48 hours prior, making it difficult to schedule another surgery. This situation causes low throughput and delays. After Six Sigma implementation the throughput in operating room was markedly improved. (Bandyopadhyay, J. & Coppens, K. 2005). Some of the Tools used in that phase: VOC-voice of customers (associates, investors and end customers, for example patients). Examples of measuring tool: surveys, interviews, suggestions or focus groups. VOC gets translated into Requirements: timeliness, accuracy, price. CTQ-Critical to Quality drilldown tree-converts customers’ needs and requirements into measurable characteristics. CAP-Change Acceleration Process-process of shortening the transition state between current and improved state. Example: ARMI (Approver, Resource, Member, Interested Party) which assigns everyone’s role in the various stages of the project. As mentioned before, implementing the Six Sigma require overall culture change within the organization. However, cultural change require time and involvement of all levels of organizational structure, especially top management. “Ultimately executive leadership team together with Six Sigma Deployment Leader and Six Sigma Champion need to ensure that a trained Six Sigma Team and associated hardware and software resources are in place to successfully implement the Six Sigma project and deliver great results and customer value!”…

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 arrangement made between the third party labor provider and the Amigs "was supposed to help maintain the cost-effective use of casual labor by the company. Instead, Amigs was seeing an unreasonably high increase in casual labor cost." Hence, the finance and the operations team of the…

opportunity for increasing efficiency and achieving sustainable development, as part of the improvement process. Valid data must be collected and analyzed using rigorous statistical tools, instead of making assumptions regarding possible causes for bottlenecks or errors. Strategies like- Six Sigma and Lean have been effective in this regard yielding significant cost and quality…

critical-to process elements, smell and taste, and the benefits and prospects of using E-nose and E-tongue technology to measure these CTQs. Since the MIM case is not presented as a Six Sigma…

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 (McLean, 2006, p.323). The first step to unfreeze occurs by the OD professional removing its self from the issue…

These concepts can be incredibly useful for government agencies, because government agencies are often extremely inefficient and behind the times in adopting new technology, processes, and management styles. Weaknesses: Often, when Lean Six Sigma White Belt training is introduced to an organization, it is for the purpose of increasing cultural buy-in by employees (New to Lean Six Sigma?). This is a good idea, because long-term employees may be stuck in their ways and people may be skeptical…

employee training routine in a setting where most staff work on shifts. Steps easy to achieve: a) Define stage – I think in a healthcare setting it would be easy to identify the problem clearly, determine its financial impact and select and organize the right people to solve it (team creation). b) Measure – Deciding what parameters need to be quantified, work out the best way to measure them, collect the necessary data, and carry out the measurements by experiment. It’s easy to better understand…

Based on the data represented in figure 11.22, the system is under control. This is because variations appear to come from sources that are common to the process. In addition, the system shows a lot of stability and no need for corrections or changes. Important to note from the figure is that the process data can be used to predict the process future performance. For Systems not under control sources of variations are obtained by analyzing the chart since it results to a degraded process…

Argument Against Standardized Testing President Bush is promoting annual standardized testing for all students in grades three through eight. This bill is currently being considered in Congress, and has garnered much support. As of right now, 15 states test students in those grades, and more than 20 have high school exit exams, which look only at the test score of a student, not at his or her academic achievements. Standardized testing is an unfair and inaccurate form of…

They were well established on the basis of Intermediate Maintenance Activities (IMA’s) and organizational activities. To satisfy the increase in demand for aircrafts the Goldratt Institute formulated a new organizational style, the Velocity approach which is a combination of speed and direction applied to a business model. It is based on the concepts of Theory of Constraints (TOC) – the system architecture, Strategic Design Activate Improve Sustain (SDAIC) – the deployment framework and Theory…