http://www.sixsigmaonline.org/six-sigma-training-certification-information/categories/six-sigma-history.html en-us http://www.sixsigmaonline.org/six-sigma-training-certification-information/categories/six-sigma-history.html Interspire Website Publisher Tue, 18 Jun 2013 19:32:29 EDT 20 http://www.sixsigmaonline.org/six-sigma-training-certification-information/articles/history-of-the-hawthorne-effect.html The Hawthorne Effect had its birth in research studies that were held in 1924 at the Hawthorne Plant where the Western Electric Company made telephone hardware for AT&T.  The experiments, designed to study worker productivity under different circumstances, uncovered what is now known as the Hawthorne Effect of human behavior. It was at this same time and place that many of the rudimentary principles of Six Sigma were also developing.

]]> no@spam.com (Six Sigma Training Assistant) Thu, 13 Jun 2013 18:32:44 EDT http://www.sixsigmaonline.org/six-sigma-training-certification-information/articles/history-of-the-hawthorne-effect.html http://www.sixsigmaonline.org/six-sigma-training-certification-information/articles/learn-all-about-six-sigma.html Many companies are adopting a business strategy known as Six Sigma. It boasts methods that improve production, create success, and deter faults within your business. In a nutshell, by using this process you are aiming to perfect the productivity of your services by eliminating defaults and errors. In order to do this basic models that stress perfection are followed. But what is it, how does it work, and how can it assure that it accomplishes all that it promises? Let's start from the beginning.

]]> no@spam.com (Six Sigma Training Assistant) Sat, 05 May 2012 12:35:07 EDT http://www.sixsigmaonline.org/six-sigma-training-certification-information/articles/learn-all-about-six-sigma.html http://www.sixsigmaonline.org/six-sigma-training-certification-information/articles/the-working-six-sigma-strategy.html Six Sigma is a management strategy for businesses developed within the United States. It came into existence in the year 1986 after the realization of a lot of defects in the production industry. Executives at the Motorola Company developed the Six Sigma strategy and it has proven to be extremely effective in minimizing defects in goods and services produced in various industries.

]]> no@spam.com (Six Sigma Training Assistant) Mon, 30 Apr 2012 18:13:36 EDT http://www.sixsigmaonline.org/six-sigma-training-certification-information/articles/the-working-six-sigma-strategy.html http://www.sixsigmaonline.org/six-sigma-training-certification-information/articles/six-sigma-basics-are-a-must-see.html Many production industries want to be the most competitive in their field. There is no better way to be competitive other than quality delivery. However, sufficient quality achievement is not ordinarily easy. The Motorola Company introduced a method to control quality in the 1980’s called Six Sigma; it was and still is the best method.

]]> no@spam.com (Six Sigma Training Assistant) Wed, 28 Mar 2012 21:56:38 EDT http://www.sixsigmaonline.org/six-sigma-training-certification-information/articles/six-sigma-basics-are-a-must-see.html http://www.sixsigmaonline.org/six-sigma-training-certification-information/articles/understanding-the-six-sigma-process.html The Six Sigma process pertains to a quality management viewpoint originally instituted by Motorola in 1981 and motivated from Japanese quality control strategies. Its process performance signifies a level of creation quality that makes less than 3.4 mistakes per one million items created in a production line.

]]> no@spam.com (Six Sigma Training Assistant) Sun, 25 Mar 2012 18:05:29 EDT http://www.sixsigmaonline.org/six-sigma-training-certification-information/articles/understanding-the-six-sigma-process.html http://www.sixsigmaonline.org/six-sigma-training-certification-information/articles/a-summary-of-six-sigma-philosophy.html The process entitled Six Sigma was ‘invented’ by Motorola in the 1980s and designed to target manufacturing defects, and then reduce them to a small level (less than 3.4 defects per million opportunities. saving millions of dollars in the process. 

]]> no@spam.com (Six Sigma Training Assistant) Sat, 25 Feb 2012 19:45:00 EST http://www.sixsigmaonline.org/six-sigma-training-certification-information/articles/a-summary-of-six-sigma-philosophy.html http://www.sixsigmaonline.org/six-sigma-training-certification-information/articles/a-profile-of-the-six-sigma-strategy.html The Six Sigma strategy was originally developed in 1986 by officials with Motorola, U. S. A. By 2010, it had become a dominant factor in the management of businesses across many industries. Its fundamental goal is to enhance the quality of processes and outputs through the identification and removal of defects. To this end, it also minimizes the variability of business and manufacturing procedures.

]]> no@spam.com (Six Sigma Training Assistant) Fri, 27 Jan 2012 18:34:17 EST http://www.sixsigmaonline.org/six-sigma-training-certification-information/articles/a-profile-of-the-six-sigma-strategy.html http://www.sixsigmaonline.org/six-sigma-training-certification-information/articles/six-sigma-a-brief-history.html In 1986, engineer Bill Smith of the Motorola Corporation introduced the now wildly popular Six Sigma concept. It is a business management strategy with the stated, implicit goal of reducing the amount of defects in production to a negligible level.

]]> no@spam.com (Six Sigma Training Assistant) Sat, 27 Nov 2010 04:00:52 EST http://www.sixsigmaonline.org/six-sigma-training-certification-information/articles/six-sigma-a-brief-history.html http://www.sixsigmaonline.org/six-sigma-training-certification-information/articles/six-sigma-deployments-101.html Any industry can successfully deploy Six Sigma Projects, regardless of their size or type. The concepts are actually very basic business issues and not limited to one specific industry or another. Also, they reflect the characteristics of business rather than the size, which can allow anyone to improve things.

]]> no@spam.com (Six Sigma Training Assistant) Sat, 26 Sep 2009 09:48:54 EDT http://www.sixsigmaonline.org/six-sigma-training-certification-information/articles/six-sigma-deployments-101.html http://www.sixsigmaonline.org/six-sigma-training-certification-information/articles/beating-the-odds---the-six-sigma-process-two-decades-later.html Six Sigma is embraced by many, but is feared by many more. So many companies have found successful business practices through the use of Six Sigma Projects, and yet there are still so many people who say that it is just a fad or trend that is soon going to go by the wayside. More than 20 years later, it's still here.

]]> no@spam.com (Six Sigma Training Assistant) Sun, 06 Sep 2009 11:14:30 EDT http://www.sixsigmaonline.org/six-sigma-training-certification-information/articles/beating-the-odds---the-six-sigma-process-two-decades-later.html