Six Sigma

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What is DPMO?

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Defects Per Million Opportunities

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What is Six Sigma DPMO?

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3.4 Defects Per Million Opportunities

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What is Six Sigma Problem solving for existing problem?

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DMAIC

Define-Measure-Analyze-Improve-Control

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What is Six Signal problem solving for new problem?

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DMADV

Define-Measure-Analyze-Design-Verify

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What is Define?

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Project Charter

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What’s in a project charter and what’s in one?

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A document defining the project being undertaken. It is used to secure agreement from the project stakeholders as to what will be accomplished. It also defines the project cost, time-line and scope.

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What are the elements of a project charter?

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• Charter title
• Business Case
• Problem statement
• Goal Statement
• Scope
• Team

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What is a project scope?

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Answers questions:

• Process investigation start?
• Process investigation stop?
• What’s inside scope?
• What’s outside scope?

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What scope creep?

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Uncontrolled changes or continued growth of scope

Occurs when scope is not properly:

• defined
• documented
• controlled

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What’s a SIPOC?

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S = Supplier
I = Input
P = Process
O = Output
C = Customer

Best practice to complete

• Start with process
• Work left to input then supplier
• Work right to output then customer

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What’s pie chart?

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Divided into sectors as a sum of the whole

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What’s a line chart

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Visualize value over time

X = horizontal axis
Y = vertical axis

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What’s bar chart?

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Group data with rectangular bars; lengths proportional to values they represent

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What’s the mean?

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The average

add up data points divide by # of data points

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What’s the median?

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The middle number in a set of data

• Organize the numbers from lowest to highest value
• Start at the ends of the data and work towards the middle
  
  • If odd number of values, the middle number is the median
  • If even number of data values, take the average of the 2 middle values and divide by 2

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What’s the mode?

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The number appearing most frequently in a data set

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What’s the range?

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The lowest and highest number of a data set

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What’s a control chart?

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Used to study a process over time

Centerline = average
Upper Control Limit = UCL
Lower Control Limit = LCL

Data between the control limits would be considered common cause

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Control Chart - How are centerline, UCL and LCL determined?

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Centerline = average of all data points

UCL and LCL are +/- 3 sigma from the centerline

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What’s a histogram?

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Graphical representation of the distribution of numerical data

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Who sets the limits? Mean / UCL / LCL

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Customer

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What’s a scatter plot / diagram?

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Used to determine if a correlation exists for data points

Positive = trends upward (low to high)
Negative = trends downward (high to low)
No Correlation = random data points