We explain what Six Sigma can do for your business as BDA can assist you with improving efficiencies in your business.
Six Sigma is a business management strategy originally developed by Motorola, USA in 1986. Six Sigma became well known after Jack Welch made it a central focus of his business strategy at General Electric in 1995, and today it is widely used in many sectors of industry and at BDA.
Six Sigma seeks to improve the quality of process outputs by identifying and removing the causes of defects (errors) and minimising variability in manufacturing and business processes.
It uses a set of quality management methods including statistical methods, and creates a special infrastructure of people within the organisation (‘Black Belts’, ‘Green Belts’, etc) who are experts in these methods. Each Six Sigma project carried out within
an organisation follows a defined sequence of steps and has quantified financial targets (cost reduction and/or profit increase).
The term Six Sigma originated from terminology associated with manufacturing, specifically terms associated with statistical modelling of manufacturing processes. The maturity of a manufacturing process can be described by a sigma rating indicating its yield, or the percentage of defect-free products it creates. A six sigma process is one in which 99.99966% of the products manufactured are statistically expected to be free of defects (3.4 defects per million). Motorola set a goal of ‘six sigma’ for all of its manufacturing operations.
