... Introduction For decades, Fortune 500 Companies have leveraged Operational Excellence (OE) methodologies to drive productivity, employee engagement and culture. By definition, Operational Excellence is a workplace philosophy and methodology focused on identifying and eliminating defects...

... Introduction For decades, Fortune 500 Companies have leveraged Operational Excellence (OE) methodologies to drive productivity, employee engagement and culture. By definition, Operational Excellence is a workplace philosophy and methodology focused on identifying and eliminating defects...

... will provide an overview as to the risk management fundamentals impacting product safety. ground transportation responsibility machinery health & medicine information product design product liability liability injury defect safety verdict product manufacturer distributor engineer...

... Introduction Safety or the lack of safety is an outcome of human performance. Human performance creates the outputs of organizations. Much of the output falls within an acceptable range, but some things do not. Those that do not can be considered the organization's operational "defect rate...

... A serious but perhaps very pervasive defect in many homes, and occasionally in other buildings, is found where the landing nosing of a stair does not have the same projection that is found on all the treads of the stairs. The unfortunate result is that the top tread has an effective tread depth that exceeds...

... Introduction Six sigma tools have been used successfully to build essentially defect free environments (one can only expect to see 3.4 defects per million observations). This defect frequency is indeed extremely small and viewed as acceptable for many product and service based quality...

... eliminating defects in it s processes and products. In 1989, only two years after introducing the process, Motorola won the prestigious Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award. In the ten years following implementation, savings from applying the principles of Six Sigma were approximately $14 million. Profits...

... making to the use of facts and data to develop sustainable solutions to business issues. Six Sigma forces you to put the customer first; to focus on what is important to improving customer satisfaction. Effective use of Six Sigma tools can result not only in reductions in cycle time, defects and costs...

... refers to 99.99966% defect-free, or to say the same thing in reverse, the probability of producing a defect is less than 3.4 in 1 million. Everyone who discusses six sigma provides examples of what six sigma performance means in terms related to day-to-day life. For example, according to the national...