Is Lean the umbrella and then you attack it with Six Sigma projects or is it mostly Lean? Or, mostly Six Sigma? What’s the relationship between the two? -jd Jason Kilgore: Well, from a project management standpoint and I have to try a little bit of project management I by nature because of my background Read More …
JAY ARTHUR is the author of the Six Sigma System, The QI Macros SPC Software for Excel, Your Seventh Sense – How to think like a comedian, Motivate Everyone, the Motivation Profile, and has written six popular John Wiley & Sons books on software engineering. Jay most recent book is Lean Six Sigma for Hospitals: Read More …
A favorite podcast of mine was with Bob Sproull, an experienced manufacturing executive with a distinguished track record of achieving improvement goals in Manufacturing, MRO, Quality, Product Development, and Engineering. In the podcast (Related Podcast and Transcription: Can Theory of Constraints, Lean and Six Sigma Co-Exist), I asked Bob; “Why do we need all three? Read More …
Bob Sproull is an experienced manufacturing executive with a distinguished track record of achieving improvement goals in Manufacturing, MRO, Quality, Product Development, and Engineering. Unlike most other consulting companies, SproullConsulting does not believe that simultaneously attacking every facet of your operation and attempting to implement across-the-board improvements offers the most expeditious or optimum return on Read More …
Dr. Kai Yang is a Professor in the department of Industrial and Manufacturing, Wayne State University. His areas of expertise include Six Sigma, statistical methods in quality and reliability engineering, lean product development, lean healthcare, and engineering design methodologies. He is a world well known expert in the area of Six Sigma, Design for Six Read More …
David Shaked of Almond-Insight discusses his book, Strength-Based Lean Six Sigma: Building Positive and Engaging Business Improvement. in a podcast last fall but it was actually the 2nd time David appeared on the podcast. The first time served as a great introduction to me on his Strength Based Approach to Lean and Six Sigma. In Read More …