Page 5 - The Six Sigma Project Planner

Change Control System 90

2. Define 95

What Is the Current State? 95
What’s Wrong with the Way Things are Now? 96
Quantify the Undesirable Effects 97
Tools and Techniques 97
Failure Mode and Effect Analysis (FMEA) 100
FMEA Process 100
Process Metrics 106
Other Key Factors and Metrics 110
How Does This Project Move the Organization Toward Its
Strategic Goals and Objectives? 111

3. Measure
Measurement Reliability and Validity 113
Dimension Measurement Analysis 113
Attribute Measurement Analysis 115

4. Analyze 119
Quantify the Current Process 119
Catalog of Data Sources for This Process 119
Exploratory Data Analysis 121
Descriptive Data Analysis 122
Example of Using Worksheet 124

Quantify the Capability of the Current Process 125
Conduct a Process Audit 125
Prepare an Audit Report 129
Determine Sigma and DPMO Levels CTx’s 129
Process Capability and Process Actual Sigma Levels
Continuous CTx Characteristics 129
Measuring Process Capability for Variables Data 129
Measuring Actual Process Performance for Variables Data 130
Process Capability and Process Actual Sigma Levels for
Attribute CTx Characteristics 131
Measuring Process Capability for Attributes Data 132
Measuring Actual Process Performance for Variables Data 132

5. Improve 139
Optimize the Process 139
Perform Designed Experiments 141
What Will the Future State Be? 144

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