Laboratory Six Sigma

Hospital laboratory uses Six Sigma to drive its efficiency initiative. Cycle times for testing are decreasing. ...

... "The lab is also using the principles of Six Sigma, a system meant to help companies eliminate defects that has been embraced by General Electric and other manufacturers. " ...

Via The StarPhoenix: Saskatoon Health Region

Six Sigma Military Efficiency is Financially Tangible

Six Sigma project targets military travel and reduces the processing cycle time. ...

... "Nguyen and Atkison-Clark said the plan to decrease travel voucher paperwork was initiated under the Lean Six Sigma program to improve fiscal military efficiency. " ...

Via Leavenworth Lamp: Travel Streamlined

Six Sigma Medical Cure

Boston area hospitals see benefits from Six Sigma process improvements. ...

... "Under a new scheduling system, all patients who required anesthesia are booked together, and an anesthesiologist was assigned to those hours. Patient volume went from 29 a day to 39 a day, without adding hours of operation. " ...

Via The Boston Globe: New medicine for hospitals

Textron CEO Sees Six Sigma Benefits

Textron CEO Lewis Campbell believes in Six Sigma as the route to becoming a premiere multi-industry company. ...

... "Even though Cessna has been producing planes for 89 years and jets since 1972, they recently took 17% of the labor hours out of their single-piston aircraft. That's a big number. " ...

Via USAToday: Textron CEO

LeanSix Sigma Improves Processes

Military uses lean six sigma to decrease the cycle time for maintenance and repair of its assets. The facilities and business processes are designed and refined to increase the flow and throughput of the work. ...

... "Many officials credit AirSpeed - formerly Lean Six Sigma - with helping improve processes, from assessing what work is needed to ordering spare parts to scheduling final flight testing to changing bad habits. " ...

Via Marine Corps Times: Aircraft repair centers

Six Sigma Freight Logistics Improvements Seen

The size of the opportunity to improve logistics cycle times is significant. Identification of critical variables using Six Sigma techniques and deployment of a new operating model for scheduling deliveries will bring improvement. Benefits are realized by optimizing the amount of vehicles waiting at any point in time, so that overall wait times are decreased. ...

... "Using a Six Sigma model to improve productivity and efficiency, the Rosehill project cut waiting times for scheduled trucks, and more than 75% of daily movements are now using the scheduling service. " ...

Via Transport & Logistics: Truck Logistics Improvement

Six Sigma Cycle Time Analysis

RFID benefits estimated with Six Sigma analysis. ...

... "CHEP estimates, using Six Sigma Kaizen analysis, found that 28 percent of end-to-end processing time could be saved per pallet delivery journey.
This equates to 49 minutes. " ...

Via Ferret: Australia RFID Pilot

Cycle Time Reduction

Thomas Group implements process reengineering for the military, reaping significant benefits. ...

... "It claims that its propriety Total Cycle Time methodology is the forerunner of such management concepts as Top Quality Management, Kaizen and Six Sigma. After Thomas advised it on a fleet-modernization program, the Navy realized one-time savings of $100 million, as well as $80 million savings annually, the firm says. " ...

Via Star-Telegram: Thomas Group Inc