Six Sigma Historical Perspective ...

D-1: Statistical Sciences

... "Six Sigma originated at Motorola Corporation in the early 1980's. In 1988, Motorola became one of the first companies to win the Malcolm Baldridge National Quality Award http://www.quality.nist.gov/. The innovation and the implementation of Motorola's 'Six Sigma' initiative began to get national attention. Then, in 1994, Allied Signal adopted Motorola's Six Sigma initiative and by 1998, claimed to have saved $1.2 billion due to the implementation of Six Sigma. Consultants who were experts in Total Quality Management, soon became experts in Six Sigma. Six Sigma may be considered a modern version of Total Quality Management. There are no new analytical tools with Six Sigma that were not applied in the 1980's with TQM. Six Sigma does have some standard methodology and organizational guidelines that are unique. Six Sigma's standard framework methodology is called DMAIC (de-may-ic): Define, Measure, Analysis, Improve, and Control." ...