[Chapter 2] Key Concepts of the Six SIGMA System: Excerpt from the Six SIGMA Way
by Peter Pande and Roland Cavanagh
Technology abounds in organizations in many forms and packages. Today's technology includes computers, sensors, software packages, telecommunications devices, networks, embedded chips, service contracts, usage systems, and a host of other units, components, and layers. The management of this technology is haphazard and loose. Various pieces of technology are controlled by different organizations with little coordination or integration. This book will define the opportunities to collect and coord...
This 400-page manual is designed to help IS managers develop a quality control program that is enhanced by effective control practices-established practices used to ensure that IS assets are utilized effectively and IS employees meet their full potential. Thoroughly indexed and written by experts in the field, Quality and Control in IS covers the full range of information management issues from the perspective of quality control. You'll find techniques you can apply immediately, as well as sugge...
Waste Management Policy and Management Guide (Workplace Law Group Policy and Procedures)
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Six Sigma is a data-driven management system with near-perfect performance that is a statistical target of operating with no more that 3.4 defects per one million chances. Six sigma has both created avid interest and raised concerns among executives and its practioners. This is all very well for multinationals like Motorola or General Electric but how can it help small and medium-sized enterprises or the service industry? How do you ensure that solutions stick? Quality Beyond Six Sigma responds...
Design for Six SIGMA, Chapter 12 - Fundamentals of Experimental Design
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Project Management Institute Practice Standard for Work Breakdown Structures
by Project Management Institute
Total Quality Management
by Dale H Besterfield, Carol Besterfield-Michna, Mary Besterfield-Sacre, Glen Besterfield, Hemant Urdhwareshe, and Rashmi Urdhwareshe
This text provides an exploration of total quality management (TQM) - covering not only the principles and practices, but also the tools and techniques. Topics discussed include statistical process control (SPC), ISO 9000, benchmarking, quality function deployment (QFD), concurrent engineering, experimental design, Taguchi's quality engineering, product liability, and additional techniques (FEMA, Poka-Yoka, Component Search). The study also explains the principles and practices of TQM leadership...
This text emphasizes the modern philosophy of continuous quality improvement, as well as quality control. It addresses the managerial issues involved as well as the statistical methods and their implementation. In straightforward terms, it explains the concepts and techniques that are essential to quality control, including cutting-edge topics such as: measurement systems, IME series methods for correlated process data, deviations from nominal charts, experimental design, taguchi methods, factor...
Spend Analysis and Specification Development Using Failure Interpretation
by Michael D. Holloway
Considering that the biggest machines that do the most work are made up of smaller machines and components, it becomes obvious that when a large machine breaks, it is normally due to small components acting antagonistically. Detailing a time-tested method for increasing productivity and lowering operational costs, Spend Analysis and Specification Development Using Failure Interpretation explains how to establish performance-based procurement specifications for the components, devices, and items...
Quality in a High-Tech Industry
by Joseph M Juran and Blanton Godfrey
This book provides expert guidance on using feedback as a performance improvement tool. It includes many simple tools readers can use to improve feedback in their work unit. The book suggests that feedback works best when the giver and receiver realize that they are in a dance together.
With the development of mobile internet technology, people’s lifestyle and consumer behavior are changing rapidly. Nowadays, the products on the market are updating more and more frequently, and the traditional marketing theory and brand theory fail to get with the mobile internet. So, what’s the innovative marketing to take in the new era? Since 2012, China has entered into the mobile era, and became a major country of mobile internet application. The book summarizes the experience of the auth...