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Industry continues to face increasing pressure in the management of capital assets: shrinking budgets, increased performance expectations, and evermore regulatory oversight.
In large scale operations or small workshop environments the right manufacturing maintenance KPIs can have enormous impact on operability and maintainability.
For years the water industry has only been able to monitor major above ground sites like water plants, pump stations and reservoirs, leaving below ground sites like man holes and pipes literally ‘in the dark’...
So far our Six Sigma DMAIC blog series has outlined the first four phases: Define, Measure, Analyse and Improve.
By now you should have clearly identified the process that needs improving, collected the data, and analysed it to come up with the root causes for the problem. Phase four of DMAIC: Improve, is where it gets fun.
Our previous blog outlined the second phase of the DMAIC (Define, Measure, Analyse, Improve, Control) process in Six Sigma: Measure.
Our previous blog outlined the first phase of the DMAIC (Define, Measure, Analyse, Improve, Control) process in Six Sigma: Define. In Define, you should have developed a problem statement, calculated the problem’s business impact and defined a goal.
In a previous blog post, we outlined the fundamentals of Six Sigma and why so many organisations from many different industries choose to pursue it. This blog will summarise how to execute the first phase of DMAIC: Define.
Six Sigma’s data-centric approach to process improvement has returned significant cost savings for organisations in manufacturing, food and beverage, finance, resources and medicine to name a few.
