Six Sigma Deployment
Offering a chronology of events from the origin of Six Sigma to the present, this unique book introduces the currently popular breakthrough strategy and explains how this compares to the original methodology.
TABLE OF CONTENTS Six Sigma Deployment
Appendix E: Glossary
- 5 "Why"s
- Keep asking why at each successive level of detail.
Numbers
- Abscissa
- The horizontal axis or line of a graph.
- Accuracy
- Closeness of agreement between an observed value and an accepted standard or reference value.
- Activity
- A process, step, function, or task that occurs over time. Combinations of activities form business processes.
- Activity analysis
- Analysis and measurement in terms of value, time, cost, and throughput of the steps that make up a process.
- Activity-based costing (ABC)
- Accounting technique that allows an organization to better determine the actual costs associated with each product and service produced by that organization without regard to the organizational structure.
- Activity model (AS-IS)
- A model that portrays how any process is currently arranged. It forms the baseline for future improvement.
- Activity model (TO-BE)
- A model developed as part of a business process redesign action or program. The TO-BE model shows how things are visualized after the improvements.
- Activity, non-value-added
- Anything that the customer would not pay for, or that is not required by law.
- Activity, value-added
- Something that the customer would pay for, or that is required by law.
- Adequacy
- Used in QS-9000. Indicates that the intent of the standard has been met, given the scope of the supplier's operation.
- Affinity diagram
- A tool used to organize ideas, usually generated through brainstorming, into groups of related families.
- Algorithm
- The rules for the solution of a problem, often a set of mathematical relationships or computer code.
- Alpha risk
- The probability of accepting the alternate hypothesis...
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