Six Sigma Summary

Hello! I found a very interesting article about Six Sigma. Hey! This is important for engineering. So, come and learn.

Six Sigma Summary

The goal of Six Sigma is to increase profits by eliminating variability, defects and waste that undermine customer loyalty.

Six Sigma is a methodology that provides businesses with the tools to improve the capability of their business processes. This increase in performance and decrease in process variation leads to defect reduction and vast improvement in profits, employee morale and quality of product.

In few words, a company or organization use the Six Sigme when they need a complete process: define, measure, analyze, design, and verify. That process is to get near perfection of an activity or product and eliminates defects.

This is a little information about the author of the article.

The article writter is Craig Tonner. He is a member of the Six Sigma official web page. He wroted and posted the first articles and he gave the opportunity to other autors to modify them. The last modify of this articles was on Sep. 3, 2003.


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Hey! I almost forgot! I did the same activity from the last post ”Unit 1” and these are some words I found at answers.com

• Measure (meas'ur•er noun): Dimensions, quantity, or capacity as ascertained by attention or energy.
• Deviations (dē'vē-ā'shən noun): The comparison with a standard.
• Strives (strīv .verb): To exert much effort or energy; endeavor. To struggle or fight forcefully; contend
• Towards (prep. & adv): In the direction of.
• Current (kûr'ənt, kŭr'- . adj): Belonging to the present time.
• Overseen (ō'vər-sēn'. verb ): To watch over and direct; supervise
• Accomplished (ə-kŏm'plĭsht. adj): Skilled; expert
• Focus (fō'kəs. Noun-verb): To concentrate act of deviating or turning aside.

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Unit 1: Online Dictionaries

Hello friends! Here is a very interesting text. This article is about reengineering business processes.

Reengineering

This article is about reengineering business processes

Reengineering (or re-engineering) is the radical redesign of an organization's processes, especially its business processes. Rather than organizing a firm into functional specialties (like production, accounting, marketing, etc.) and looking at the tasks that each function performs, we should, according to the reengineering theory, be looking at complete processes from materials acquisition, to production, to marketing and distribution. The firm should be re-engineered into a series of processes.

In this unit (online dictionaries) we learned how to use the dictionary and we also used online’s dictionaries. Here is an example of two words from the last article.

Accounting: (ə-koun'tĭng).noun. To provide a record such as funds paid or received for a person or business. (From www.answers.com)

From http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/accounting

Main Entry:
ac·count·ing

Pronunciation:
\ə-ˈkau̇n-tiŋ\

Function:
noun

The system of recording and summarizing business and financial transactions and analyzing, verifying, and reporting the results; also : the principles and procedures of accounting

Acquisition:(ăk'wĭ-zĭsh'ən). noun. Act of obtaining ownership of an asset through purchase, trade, or gift. Also, the asset that was acquired.
Example: Purchasing the apartment house when the market was depressed turned out to be a timely acquisition for the company. A portfolio of similar acquisitions has performed well over recentyears.

From http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/acquisition

Main Entry:
ac·qui·si·tion

Pronunciation:
\ˌa-kwə-ˈzi-shən\

Function:
noun

Something or someone acquired or gained acquisitions>

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