The Penske System: Planning, Appearance, and Discipline

Roger Penske prepares to take on the Saturn franchise. Expect his leadership principles to develop this channel for growth as the automotive manufacturing shifts from General Motors to a different partner. ...

... "His racing team is known for its meticulous planning, its spit-and-polish appearance and, above all, its discipline. He has applied the same principles in other parts of his automotive empire, and gotten sterling results. " ...

Via New York Times: Roger Penske, Saturn

Six Sigma Banking Model

The financial industry seeks new business models to regain profitability. ...

... "I know a former BofA bank official who quit because he could not stand BofA CEO’s Kenneth Lewis’s aping General Electric intense focus on quality through Six Sigma management. " ...

Via BNET Financial Services Blog: Banking Models

GE Six Sigma Does Not Translate Well

General Electric Six Sigma has not translated easily to other companies where GE alumni have migrated and its disciplined approach does not mesh well with new product innovations. ...

... "It was going to take Six Sigma to standardize our processes, like Metamucil; make us regular, make us predictable, pacified and of course, profitable. So, without trying I can count on both hands and feet the number of former GE’ers who flopped miserably at managing, and failed to bring about the joyous resurrection they had been anointed for, at ALL levels of organization. " ...

Via Product Design and Development: New Product Development, NPD

Lean and SixSigma EQ Peas and Carrots

Lean can accelerate the progress seen in Six Sigma implementations and the methodologies complement one another. ...

... "It has become so obvious that the two go together in Serigraph's lean journey that it almost can be raised to the level of axiom - quality improvements can go only so far without lean - or total quality management is impossible without lean disciplines. " ...

Via Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel: Six Sigma, lean strategy

Process Depends on Culture

3M challenged by balancing disciplined process execution with flexibility needed to sustain creativity and innovation. It is difficult for an enterprise to sustain cultures necessary to be successful at both initiatives. ...

... "Buckley, a PhD chemical engineer by training, seems to recognize the cultural ramifications of a process-focused program on an organization whose fate and history is so bound up in inventing new stuff. " ...

Via Business Week: 3M Six Sigma

Five-9s Availability Achieved Through Six Sigma Discipline

EMC uses Six Sigma methodology to drive availability improvements in its products to five-9s performance levels. ...

... "Traditionally, only high-end storage systems designed for the most mission-critical applications have delivered Five 9s availability. EMC designed an entirely new midrange architecture - UltraScale - to deliver the highest levels of availability in affordable, scalable and easy-to-use systems that meet a wide range of storage needs. Over the past year, EMC utilized a comprehensive Six Sigma-based approach to track and calculate availability metrics of both the Fibre Channel and Fibre Channel/iSCSI versions of the EMC CLARiiON CX3 UltraScale systems, including a thorough analysis of the root cause of unplanned customer system downtime whether hardware, software or process-related. " ...

Via EMC: EMC Clariion CX3 Ultrascale Systems Achieve Highest Midrange Storage Availability and Quality Benchmark

SixSigma Enables Unified Communications Cost Efficient Service For Ford

Getronics receives contract with Ford to install, deploy, and manage a voicemail, audio conferencing, and web collaboration solution that is based on the Cisco Unified Communications solution. ...

... "Getronics' dedication to the Six Sigma methodology, a disciplined approach to quality that drives cost efficiency in service delivery, will play a key role in the implementation. The new unified communications solution delivered and managed by Getronics will enable a year over year savings, while consolidating Ford's technology infrastructure onto a single networking infrastructure. " ...

Via Getronics: Unified Communications For Ford Motor Company

SixSigma Benefit Realization: Detail Tangible Benefits

Six Sigma discipline can be used to drive tangible benefits from IT investments. This can be enabled by a robust program for benefits realization that ensures that the benefits articulated in the business case are achieved. ...

... "The process is an amalgamation of this company's rich history in Six Sigma and their belief that technology can revolutionize their industries, core business processes, and internal functions. " ...

Via Optimize Magazine: Benefit Realization

DataMining SixSigma DMAIC Methodology

Data mining vendor KXEN adopts Six Sigma DMAIC as its standard implementation methodology for inegrating analytics into corporate business processes. ...

... "The adoption of DMAIC - short for Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve and Control - brings for the first time rigidly defined business goals, milestones and measurements to data mining projects. Until now the absence of such discipline has put many businesses off data mining according to Bloor Research analyst David Norris, restricting its use to specialized, low volume projects.

DMAIC is one of two Six Sigma methodologies and is most commonly used to improve existing business processes. It was chosen as the KXEN standard implementation methodology for its completeness, its clear tasks/deliverables descriptions and its suitability for business users. Six Sigma was pioneered by Motorola in 1986 and is a service mark and trademark of that company. The move also highlights KXEN's use in broader Six Sigma projects for overall business performance improvement initiatives where data mining can help identify the true indicators of performance, spot trends and detect failures. " ...

Via KXEN: Six Sigma Methodology For Data Mining Projects

Lean Discipline: Mulally Recognized

Leader Alan R. Mulally is recognized for his role is changing the fortunes of American manufacturing icons. ...

... "His zeal for management - the relentless focus on planning, production and embracing everyone as a team member - has gone well beyond the disciplines of lean manufacturing and continuous product improvement. " ...

Via Aviation Week and Space Technology: Person of the Year

Microsoft CIO: GE SixSigma Disciple ...

CIO Stuart Scott, who has a background in Six Sigma from GE, speaks about the evolution of his role from an applications and business-process-focus to full CIO responsibility for driving IT innovation at Microsoft. ...

... "PressPass: It's said that you're a Six Sigma black belt. Could you explain what that means and why it's an asset, and tell us how you parlay that sort of expertise into success in your role as CIO? Scott: Six Sigma is a data-driven process for making business decisions and choosing investments that help ensure a return for your business. It's a discipline in which you use analytical tools to draw out statistically significant information. So if you're talking to customers, for example, you want to do that in such a way that you come away with a genuine understanding of what they want, and you grasp the difference between what you could do to make those customers feel better vs. what's critical to enabling those customers to be successful, and what's critical to Microsoft's growth. Using good data and analytical tools, you can invest in programs like improving the business or putting in a new information system with the confidence that you'll achieve the desired result in terms of incremental business value. For me, that's always measured in a ledger. Any benefit we talk about has to be quantified in a way that demonstrates increased shareholder value. " ...

Via Microsoft: Microsoft CIO Stuart Scott Outlines the Company's Commitment to People-Ready Business

Stuart Scott practices project portfolio management as CIO at GE. ...

Via CIO Magazine: Deciding Factors: "STUART SCOTT MAY BE the vice president and CIO of GE Industrial Systems, but he sees himself as a venture capitalist. "

Selection Process: Six Sigma Improves Analysis ...

The Six Sigma methodology improves the selection process for Canadian bakery. ...

... "Canada Bread Frozen Bakery applied Six Sigma methodology, a fact-based analytical approach and discipline, to the process of selecting CHEP as an alternative to the pallet exchange program. " ...

Via MRO: Canada Bread uses Six Sigma to improve pallet administration and reduce machinery downtime ...

Kaizen Events Kanban Discipline Outperforms Expectations ...

Investment VP sees company's kaizen experience as enabling expectations to be outperformed. ...

... "Since our initial investment Breeze has obtained three new patents, centralized materials purchasing, instituted Kaizen events that have led to cost reductions and adopted Kanban disciplines to streamline inventory management, said American Capital Vice President Helen Yang. As a result, it has significantly reduced its leverage and impressively outperformed our expectations. This quick de-levering, coupled with the Company's attractive growth prospects and continued cost reductions have created conditions for a dividend recapitalization. American Capital first invested in Breeze in August 2004, supporting Wind Point's acquisition. Founded in 1948 in Saltsburg, Pennsylvania, Breeze invented and patented the first worm-drive hose clamp, which uses a worm screw configuration to tighten, seal and connect pipes and tubes. " ...

Kaizen Events Kanban Discipline Outperforms Expectations: Via American Capital: American Capital Invests $52 Million in Portfolio Company Breeze Industrial Products Corporation



Breeze Industrial Products Corporation with facilities in Saltsburg, Pennsylvania, Auburn Hills, Michigan and Frittlingen Germany, is a leading global supplier of proprietary and patented steel clamps for the heavy duty truck, automotive, and industrial markets. Offering 13 product lines for varied clamping applications, the Company sells approximately 13,000 different SKUs marketed under the Breeze, Torca, and Clamp-All brands.

Lean 5S Tool Upgraded ...

Lean Toolkit upgraded ...

... "Kaizen Products LLC released its 5S ActionPack product upgrade. Designed to serve those getting started in Toyota Production System methods, the $349.00 multi-media training kit is now available. The 5S principles are a fundamental tool of the Toyota Production System, recognized world wide as a model of operational excellence. The 5S practice of Sort, Straighten, Sweep, Standardize and Self-Discipline are essential to establishing and maintain safety, quality, on-time delivery and productivity in any workplace. " ...

Lean 5S Tool Upgraded: Kaizen Products Releases 5S ActionPack Upgrade – Designed for the Lean Manufacturing DIY Market, New Version Contains Quick Reference Guides, Wallet Cards and Red Tags ...

Project Manager Lean Initiatives ...

Position available for project manager with experience in lean initiatives ...

... "Degree educated in a manufacturing or engineering discipline and at least 10 years experience within a commercial environment. Experience of some lean initiatives is essential, six sigma is desirable but not essential. Degree educated in a manufacturing or engineering discipline and at least 10 years experience within a commercial environment. Experience of some lean initiatives is essential, six sigma is desirable but not essential. " ...

Project Manager Lean Initiatives: Via jobs.telegraph.co.uk: SENIOR PROJECT MANAGER ...

Solectron LeanSixSigma Enables AS9100 Certification ...

Solectron leverages its Lean Six Sigma discipline to enable AS9100 quality certification ...

... "Solectron Corporation, a leading provider of electronics manufacturing and integrated supply chain services, announced successful certification for Solectron FinePitch to AS9100 Rev B, the quality management system specific to the aerospace industry. AS9100 certification is a strategic milestone for Solectron showcasing our comprehensive quality management system that enables us to deliver world-class quality products and services to our customers, said Misha Rozenberg, senior vice president and chief quality officer, Solectron. Solectron Production System, or SPS, our proven and industry leading Lean Six Sigma methodology, facilitated the AS9100 certification. We are very proud to add aerospace quality assurance certification to our growing list of manufacturing quality compliance standards worldwide. First published in May 1997 by the SAE (Society of Automotive Engineers) as AS9000, the AS standard is currently known as AS9100, Rev B, and is recognized by all major aerospace OEMs. " ...

Solectron LeanSixSigma Enables AS9100 Certification: Via Solectron: Solectron Announces Successful Aerospace Manufacturing Certification to AS9100 Rev B ...

Executive and Manager Overview: ISO 9001:2000/AS9100 Rev. B: "ISO Joe's Executive and Manager Overview: ISO 9001:2000/AS9100 Rev. B provides and expands uponthat foundational knowledge, and examines and compares today's commonly used quality programs and systems. "

Six Sigma Process Excellence: Value Engineering for BPO ...

Six Sigma process excellence is a journey as business process root causes are identified and the defect continuously eliminated. Moumita Bakshi Chatterjee explores the methodology of value engineering applied in the business process outsourcing BPO industry. ...

... "The process consequently runs more efficiently, which increases output.
Process excellence is a continuous journey and is largely attributable to Genpact's discipline of Six Sigma. " ...

Six Sigma Process Excellence: Value Engineering for BPO: Via The Hindu Business Line : Measure for measure

Six Sigma Test Process: Lower Failure Rate ...

Six Sigma process is used in test process to lower failure rate at disk drive maker. Chris Mellor explores disk drive companies and the successes and failures in the marketplace. ...

... "There have been design improvements, an extended test process to reduce infant mortality and improve the product (so as) to lower the failure rate. Some Raptor mechanisms are re-used. The extended test process is all part of a Six Sigma process, a manufacturing quality discipline which Seagate also uses. " ...

Six Sigma Test Process: Lower Failure Rate: Via ARNnet | All is not quiet on the Western Digital front

Additional resources on using Six Sigma in the test process:

Via Westgard QC Lesson: From Method Validation to Six Sigma - Translating Method Performance Claims into Sigma Metrics: "While it is probably disconcerting to find that a single test process has two different Sigma metrics, it's not surprising that a test performs differently at different levels. It would be far more unusual if a test performed the same at all the levels of concentration. For the high level control, a Sigma metric of 4.56 is actually acceptable. But for the low level control, a Sigma metric of less than zero is clearly bad. "

Via Conference Presentation Summary: "Running these tests by hand became cumbersome so the group developed a nightly test harness that runs each of the quality tests and collects all of the data to present a single comprehensive view of measured quality. It was a small move from this point to start a continuous test process that runs a slimmed down set of the quality tests whenever code is checked into the source code repository. The continuous measure of quality then is the final blending of extreme programming with Six Sigma. "

Software Verification and Validation Consulting - Best Practices - Via Wipro Technologies: "This model supports the improvement of test processes, offers insight into maturity of test processes, defines new test strategy and recommends immediate improvement steps. "

Lean Manufacturing: Production Area Manager Position Open ...

... "Degree qualified in an engineering, industrial management or related discipline. 5 to 10 years management experience preferably within the automotive manufacturing sector. Must be able to demonstrate an ability to set and achieve targets in areas of cost, production and quality. Also possess a record of continuous improvement through application of lean manufacturing techniques. " ...

Lean Manufacturing: Production Area Manager Position Open: Via icWales - Hot Jobs - Production Area Manager ...

Heijunka Scheduling for Lean Manufacturers

Factory Logic introduces heijunka scheduling in its latest manufacturing software release. ...

Heijunka Scheduling for Lean Manufacturers: Via Factory Logic: Factory Logic Announces Enhanced Release That Delivers Expanded Lean Production Management Capabilities; Integrated Production Leveling, Supermarket, and Supplier Kanban Tools Provide Powerful Solution for Demand-Driven Manufacturers

... "Factory Logic has taken the discipline and proven methodology of TPS and transformed it into an enabling technology to standardize and automate processes. The newest release provides dynamically enhanced capabilities for heijunka scheduling of pacemaker operations, significantly expanded capabilities for supermarket management, and improved capabilities for supplier kanban. " ...

Six Sigma Patience and Persistance in Conflict?

Six sigma discipline promotes a patient process of finding the critical few variable that truly impact customer requirements. It takes persistance to apply the various steps in the Six Sigma DMAIC process, instead of jumping too quickly to a solution. Al Kaniss explores the importance of emphasis on the character traits of patience and persistence. ...

Six Sigma Patience and Persistance in Conflict?: Via DC Military: Patience and persistence pay off ...

... "And with the emphasis on total quality and six sigma (3.4 defects per million opportunities), there isn't very much tolerance for mistakes or trial-and-error learning. Perhaps the champion of patience and persistence was Thomas Edison. " ...

Six Sigma Storage Industry: Disk Drive Manufacturing ...

Chris Mellor explores the storage market, where Six Sigma has a role in manufacturing quality for disk drives. ...

Six Sigma Storage Industry: Disk Drive Manufacturing: Via Techworld.com: All is not quiet on the Western Digital front ...

... "The extended test process is all part of a Six Sigma process, a manufacturing quality discipline which Seagate also uses. " ...

Call Center Performance Management: Six Sigma Baseline

A people performance management approach may be more appropriate to call center improvement at the outset, before introducing discipline Six Sigma. However, it is still important to establish baseline performance measurement, as would occur in the Measure phase of the Six Sigma DMAIC process. Rich Snow, VP Ventana Research, explores the performance improvement of ineffective call centers. ...

Call Center Performance Management: Six Sigma Baseline: Via TMCnet: Ineffective Call Centers Need Performance Management

... "Some observers suggest adopting the Six Sigma approach: set targets, measure and reduce variation at all stages until the measures fall within the targets, then repeat with more exacting targets. " ...

Six Sigma BlackBelt Programs: Paying Off

John Eby provides update on the Six Sigma success story at SPX Contech/Metal Forge, Black Belt training is paying off ...

Six Sigma BlackBelt Programs: Paying Off: Via Dowagiac Daily News: SPX Contech having first open house in 16 years Oct. 29 ...

... "SPX Contech also integrates the Six Sigma problem-solving methodology, providing discipline for quick, effective results. More than 10 percent of employees have attended SPX University's Green and Black Belt programs, and the company says this commitment to learning is paying off. " ...

Six Sigma Quality Controls ...

Six Sigma Quality Controls: Via Emergency Committee for American Trade: Emergency Committee for American Trade (ECAT) is an association of the chief executives of major American companies ...

... "Our ECAT companies worked with this Committee to meet this challenge. We embraced innovation and change; adopted best practices from around the world; pioneered six sigma quality controls; invested in innovative products and technologies; and accepted the unrelenting discipline required to compete and win in the global marketplace. Today, the United States is again recognized as a global leader in manufacturing, finance, agriculture, and services, and the U.S. economy is viewed as the world's key economic engine. American companies succeeded in meeting these challenges by embracing competition, innovation, and globalization, not protectionism. " ...

Manufacturing Engineer Job: Kaizen Experience

WOAI: San Antonio News - Job of the Day: Manufacturing Engineer

... "BS in a technical discipline; preference for a BSME or BSMET. A minimum of 3 years of similar experience in a metal fabrication manufacturing environment; Automotive experience is preferred. Experience with cycle times, line balancing, routings, plant layout, FMEA's, Kaizen. Must be capable of adapting to a participative work environment. " ...

Six Sigma Supports American Trade ...

Emergency Committee for American Trade: Hearing Archives :Committee on Ways & Means :: U.S. House of Representatives :

... "We embraced innovation and change; adopted best practices from around the world; pioneered six sigma quality controls; invested in innovative products and technologies; and accepted the unrelenting discipline required to compete and win in the global marketplace. Today, the United States is again recognized as a global leader in manufacturing, finance, agriculture, and services, and the U.S. economy is viewed as the world's key economic engine. American companies succeeded in meeting these challenges by embracing competition, innovation, and globalization, not protectionism. " ...

Partnership for Merger Acquisition Acceleration ...

Partnership for Merger Acquisition Acceleration: IntraLinks and PowerSteering Software Form Strategic Partnership ...

Mergers and acquisitions can be accelerated through the use of tools integrated through this strategic partnership ...

From Business Wire (press release), CA ... responsible for delivering results from corporate initiatives such as mergers and acquisitions, strategic sourcing, Sarbanes-Oxley and Six Sigma are able to ...

... PowerSteering, the only provider of solutions for measuring and managing strategic enterprise programs, and IntraLinks, the leading provider of virtual data rooms to the global merger and acquisition industry, today announced that they have formed a strategic partnership. Under the terms of the agreement, PowerSteering and IntraLinks will cross-sell each other's services, providing a seamless M&A process from due diligence to post-merger integration. IntraLinks Virtual Data Rooms enable dealmakers to take the M&A process online, cutting an average of 30 days off dealtime. ...

PowerSteering Software, Inc. has dramatically improved the way businesses drive, manage, and track critical corporate innovation and growth initiatives. Using PowerSteering, corporate executives responsible for delivering results from corporate initiatives such as mergers and acquisitions, strategic sourcing, Sarbanes-Oxley and Six Sigma are able to easily review all projects in real-time and act on project status to ensure timely completion. PowerSteering is the only software that enables executives to tie financial savings directly to project outcomes and drive improvement in key performance metrics quickly, effectively and in real-time. The company leverages its deep experience in enterprise class quality and process improvement software to bring the speed, focus, and discipline of Six Sigma to enterprise program management. The PowerSteering suite is currently being used to manage more than $15 billion in target savings, supporting over 35,000 active users and nearly 100,000 projects. Global clients include Alpharma, Diageo, EMC, General Electric, Pitney Bowes, Raytheon, Textron and Tyco.

IntraLinks (www.intralinks.com), the leading provider of digital workspaces, connects business communities and accelerates the intelligent flow of information and documents among participants. Through IntraLinks' secure, neutral, online environments, companies are better able to compete globally by accelerating essential business processes, simplifying communication and fostering rapid workflow. IntraLinks is easily accessible anywhere, anytime using a web browser. Since April 1997, more than 200,000 participants representing over 13,000 companies worldwide have used IntraLinks digital workspaces to communicate and collaborate on more than 20,000 projects and transactions. IntraLinks has been rapidly adopted by the financial services and pharmaceutical markets. Over 250 global companies are IntraLinks clients, including AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP, Bank of America, Bear Stearns, Deutsche Bank, Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein, Ernst & Young, FDIC, JPMorgan Chase, TD Securities, Thomas Weisel Partners and WestLB. Founded in June 1996, IntraLinks is headquartered in New York with offices in Boston and London.

HR Balanced Scorecard ...

HR Balanced Scorecard

... "The DOT HR balanced scorecard instrument (BSI) evaluates an Administration's delivery of HR services and information. Since 1998, the team has used a balanced scorecard discipline founded on the performance management concepts developed by Kaplan and Norton. The scorecard discipline gathers perspectives of customers, employees, and managers in evaluating an organization's performance. " ...

Lean Manufacturing Discipline Enables CEO Success ...

Lean Manufacturing Discipline Enables CEO Success: Chief Executive Magazine Names United Technologies' George David ...

UT's CEO has leveraged his lean manufacturing experience into the boardroom and has been honored as CEO of the Year ...

From Market Wire (press release) ... David, 62, has spread strong financial discipline and lean manufacturing processes acquired from Japan throughout United Technologies. ...

... Chief Executive magazine today announced that George David, CEO of United Technologies Corp., has been selected as the magazine's CEO of the Year. It was a unanimous decision from the selection panel, which was made up of seven chief executive officers and was chaired by Frederick W. Smith, chairman and CEO of FedEx and the magazine's 2004 CEO of the Year. Other panelists included two previous CEO of the Year honorees, Sanford I. Weill of Citigroup and Herbert D. Kelleher of Southwest Airlines, as well as Michael Critelli of Pitney Bowes, Scott Serota of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association, Pat Russo of Lucent and Joe Tucci of EMC. The magazine, whose readers submitted the initial nominations, initiated the CEO of the Year award in 1986. ...

Chief Executive is a controlled circulation magazine that has been published since 1977. It reaches 42,000 chief executive officers and their peers, reaches a total readership of 170,000, and is published 10 times a year. Chief Executive Group facilitates "Chief Executive of the Year," a prestigious honor bestowed upon an outstanding corporate leader, nominated and selected by a group of his or her peers. Fred Smith, Hank Greenberg, Bill Gates, John Chambers, Michael Dell and Sandy Weill are just some of the leaders who have been honored during the award's 20-year history. Chief Executive also organizes roundtable meetings and conferences to foster opportunities for top corporate officers to discuss key subjects and share their experiences within a community of peers.

Demand for SixSigma Training ...

Missouri Department of Higher Education, Societal Demand for Quality Training ...

... "United States businesses are in competition with businesses from all over the world. It has become necessary for organizational survival in this global economy to continuously increase quality and productivity. Industrial Engineering Technologists are the only Engineering Technology discipline that focuses on just that, figuring out how to do things better and how do improve processes and systems. The proposed Industrial Engineering Technology program will teach graduates the skills to improve processes and systems in almost any type of organization. It also allows students to become certified Six Sigma Green Belts or Black Belts which will make them practiced experts in achieving the current world standard for quality. " ...

Lean Manufacturing Engineer Position Available ...

UK job vacancies, online job search - jobs.telegraph.co.uk

... "Technical support for operations activities, including quality, H&S and cost reduction. Advancement of lean manufacturing concepts. Qualified to HND/Degree level in mechanical or industrial engineering discipline, you will ideally have a minimum of 5 years experience within a similar role. Experience within an engineering environment including fabrication and assembly would be a distinct advantage" ...

BioInformatics Center of Excellence ...

Buffalo Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics and Life Sciences

From Research New York ...

... "merging high-performance computing and high-end visualization with genomics, proteomics and bioimaging, the Buffalo Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics and Life Sciences has created a unique and powerful combination of technologies and research expertise that is fostering advances in science and health care. " ...

Bioinformatics is an emerging discipline, which combines efforts and advances in computer science, computational science, and various aspects of life science. While there is currently no generally agreed upon definition of 'bioinformatics,' one view is that bioinformatics is concerned with the creation and development of advanced information and computational technologies to solve problems in biology.

The areas emphasized include computational genomics, proteomics, pharmacogenomics, metabolomics, epigenetics and very large-scale biological simulations, with the ultimate aim of being able to simulate at the molecular level entire cells. While the research at the COE is very fundamental, since the practical implications are often immediate, emphasis will be placed on the rapid commercialization of the ideas and technology that is developed. By combining uniquely talented individuals with superb resources, the goal is to create one of the worlds best Bioinformatics Centers.

Six Sigma Jobs: Manufacturing Engineering Manager

Six Sigma Jobs: Manufacturing Engineering Manager

From Telegraph.co.uk, UK ... or science discipline, enhanced by formal training in modern manufacturing techniques and, ideally qualified to black belt level in Six Sigma, you will have at ...

Six Sigma Initiatives: PowerSteering CEO Presents Hoshin Goals Deployment Principles in ...

From Business Wire (press release), CA ... responsible for delivering results from corporate initiatives such as mergers and acquisitions, strategic sourcing, Sarbanes-Oxley and Six Sigma are able to ...

... PowerSteering, the only provider of solutions for measuring and managing strategic enterprise programs, today announced that President and CEO David Boghossian will host a PowerPractices Webinar on December 9. In the Webinar, Boghossian will discuss employing Hoshin Goals Deployment principals within organizations to enhance the "Growth Edge" that leads to innovation. ...

PowerSteering Software, Inc. has dramatically improved the way businesses drive, manage, and track critical corporate innovation and growth initiatives. Using PowerSteering, corporate executives responsible for delivering results from corporate initiatives such as mergers and acquisitions, strategic sourcing, Sarbanes-Oxley and Six Sigma are able to easily review all projects in real-time and act on project status to ensure timely completion. PowerSteering is the only software that enables executives to tie financial savings directly to project outcomes and drive improvement in key performance metrics quickly, effectively and in real-time. The company leverages its deep experience in enterprise class quality and process improvement software to bring the speed, focus, and discipline of Six Sigma to enterprise program management.

Six Sigma Career: PowerSteering Software Appoints New Senior Vice President of ...

From Business Wire (press release), CA -1 hour ago
... responsible for delivering results from corporate initiatives such as mergers and acquisitions, strategic sourcing, Sarbanes-Oxley and SixSigma are able to ...

... PowerSteering, the only provider of solutions for measuring and managing strategic enterprise programs, announced today that Tibor Vais has joined the company as Senior Vice President of Products. At PowerSteering, Mr. Vais will play a key role in developing the company's strategic product roadmap and bringing new solutions to market. Mr. Vais will report to David Boghossian, CEO of PowerSteering. ...

PowerSteering Software, Inc. has dramatically improved the way businesses drive, manage, and track critical corporate innovation and growth initiatives. Using PowerSteering, corporate executives responsible for delivering results from corporate initiatives such as mergers and acquisitions, strategic sourcing, Sarbanes-Oxley and Six Sigma are able to easily review all projects in real-time and act on project status to ensure timely completion. PowerSteering is the only software that enables executives to tie financial savings directly to project outcomes and drive improvement in key performance metrics quickly, effectively and in real-time. The company leverages its deep experience in enterprise class quality and process improvement software to bring the speed, focus, and discipline of Six Sigma to enterprise program management.
The PowerSteering suite is currently being used to manage more than $15 billion in target savings, supporting over 35,000 active users and nearly 100,000 projects. Global clients include Alpharma, Diageo, EMC, Pitney Bowes, Raytheon, Textron, Tyco and General Electric.

Six Sigma Healthcare Quality: Quantros, a Leading Patient Safety Company, Announces Strategic ...

From Business Wire (press release), CA ... Management (CRM) training that has helped to create and sustain a safety-first culture, resulting in an airline safety record exceeding six-sigma levels of ...

Patient safety will benefit from Six Sigma process discipline and from leveraging and translating techniques from aviation safety field ...

... Quantros, Inc., a leading patient safety company in healthcare, and Human Performance Training Institute (HPTI), a leading safety training firm, today announced that they have formed a strategic alliance to more comprehensively address patient safety needs in healthcare. Quantros provides healthcare institutions with the technology to capture and analyze data related to medical errors and near misses in creating information that provides visibility into the root causes of the errors. They provide efficient data collections, actionable knowledge in real time and a large and continuously growing database of adverse events and near missed for hospitals and healthcare facilities. ...

Founded in 1996, Quantros is a leading patient safety company in healthcare providing real-time knowledge creation solutions for benchmarking, patient safety such as adverse events and near misses, accreditation and compliance, and outcomes monitoring for leading healthcare providers, payers, and pharmaceutical manufacturers. Quantros' web delivered applications provide a standard platform for automating resource intensive manual processes. Through a variety of direct sales and vendor partners, nearly 700 hospitals are licensed to use Quantros' web-based technology solutions.

The Human Performance Training Institute (HPTI) was founded to help improve teamwork in safety-sensitive settings in order to avoid and mitigate errors, incidents and accidents. Their work is derived from Aviation Crew Resource Management (CRM) training that has helped to create and sustain a safety-first culture, resulting in an airline safety record exceeding six-sigma levels of performance. The principle goal of CRM is to equip individuals with human factors tools to use in an operational environment to overcome the catastrophic consequences of human error. HPTI provides the human factors skills necessary to detect, prioritize and manage risks and errors in a technology-centered team-based environment.

Six Sigma Success: PACCAR Chairman Mack C. Pigott Is Named 2004 Manager of the Year ...

From PR Newswire (press release) ... We've been able to hold many courses to teach our suppliers about Six Sigma [manufacturing discipline] and that has been a tremendous benefit for everybody in ...

... Mark C. Pigott, chairman and chief executive officer of PACCAR Inc, a major manufacturer of Kenworth, Peterbilt, DAF and Foden-branded commercial trucks in North America and Europe, was selected today by the business journal Stark's Truck & Off-Highway Ledger as its 17th annual "Manager of the Year. The respected business publication cited a lengthy string of impressive returns on assets, capital investments and productivity gains as the chief reasons for the selection of the PACCAR chairman as its '2004 Manager of the Year. ...

Six Sigma Discipline: Frame of mind

From The Manufacturer.com ...

... "Lean is action-oriented. Six Sigma brings disciplined structure to the improvement process. The combination is powerful with the inherent discipline of Sigma and the speed of lean, offering quick results to clients. Design for LeanSigma addresses three distinct areas: Voice of the Customer - what does the customer want? Design Kaizen - what design will best meet the customer's needs? Production Preparation - how can we manufacture it profitably? " ...

Six Sigma Compliance Quality: QUMAS Wins Deloitte Technology Award for Fifth Consecutive Year

From Yahoo News (press release) ... in best practices that support a broad range of regulatory requirements including Sarbanes-Oxley, HIPAA, 21 CFR Part 11, cGxP, Six Sigma Content Management and ...

Sarbanex-Oxley and other compliance requirements are enabled through Six Sigma discipline. Qumas offers compliance management software that drives the data and document management processes needed to support compliance tracking ...

... QUMAS ( http://www.qumas.com ), the world's leading provider of Enterprise Compliance Management software solutions, today announced that for an unprecedented fifth time in succession, Deloitte has named the firm as one of the fastest growing international technology companies. At a gala ceremony last night, it was revealed that QUMAS secured seventh position in the Top 50 rankings, the company's highest placing to date. ...

QUMAS provides a suite of integrated Enterprise Compliance Management software solutions that are designed to help companies ensure corporate compliance. QUMAS promotes corporate compliance through a suite of solutions that address the document and data-centric processes such as the creation, review, approval and distribution of controlled documentation. QUMAS applications include built-in best practices that support a broad range of regulatory requirements including Sarbanes-Oxley, HIPAA, 21 CFR Part 11, cGxP, Six Sigma Content Management and others. The products are based on open systems platforms ensuring rapid deployment within existing technology infrastructures and include validation, training and technical support. For over a decade, QUMAS has delivered corporate compliance solutions to over one hundred global life sciences organisations. QUMAS clients have achieved dramatic return on their technology investments as well as improved operational efficiency. The QUMAS worldwide headquarters is located in Cork, Ireland with U.S. headquarters in Florham Park, NJ and satellite offices throughout the United States and Europe.

Balanced Scorecard Success: Chrysler Group Named to the Balanced Scorecard Hall of Fame

From Yahoo News (press release) ... Chrysler Group has been named today to the Balanced Scorecard Hall of Fame(TM) at the Balanced Scorecard North American Summit in ...

The Balanced Scorecard can sharpen a corporation's focus on strategic goals and the key performance measures that confirm progress of the enterprise and align the workforce behind the enterprise vision ...

... Faced with significant challenges, Chrysler Group introduced the Balanced Scorecard in March 2001 to describe the strategic goals and key performance measures for the company. The focus and discipline of this methodology has become a cultural foundation of the Chrysler Group's transformation. The Balanced Scorecard ensures that departmental goals, as well as the goals of individual employees, are aligned to the overall company targets. ...

DaimlerChrysler is unique in the automotive industry: our product portfolio ranges from small cars to sports cars and luxury sedans; and from versatile vans to heavy duty trucks or comfortable coaches. DaimlerChryslers’ passenger car brands include Maybach, Mercedes-Benz, Chrysler, Jeep®, Dodge and smart. Commercial vehicle brands include Mercedes-Benz, Freightliner, Sterling, Western Star and Setra. It offers financial and other automotive services through DaimlerChrysler Services.

Healthcare Six Sigma: LSU Healthcare Network Taps New IDX Flowcast(TM) Business ...

From PR Newswire (press release) ... IDX expects to drive quality and performance for each BSO customer using the principles of Six Sigma(R). IDX will use Six Sigma to drive revenue cycle process ...

IDX Systems Corporation provides information technology solutions to maximize value in the delivery of healthcare, improve the quality of patient service, enhance medical outcomes, and reduce the costs of care.
IDX supports these objectives with a broad range of complementary and functionally rich products installed at 3,300 customer sites. Customers include 138,000 physicians who utilize practice management systems to improve patient care and other workflow processes.

Flowcast adheres to a discipline of continuous innovation, powered by Six Sigma™, to ensure each new Flowcast product and service exceeds customer expectations. Success backed by best practices: Flowcast drives best practices into customer organizations, enabling the adoption of standard processes and workflows proven to demonstrate positive results.

Six Sigma STARR Methdology...

Six Sigma Brokers™ quickly connects you to the right resources – reducing risk, eliminating guesswork, and saving you valuable time and money...

Six Sigma Brokers is an innovative international company offering one-of-a-kind services from offices in New York and London. The key to our business is impartiality. With independence and objectivity we utilize our knowledge, experience, relationships and STARR™ methodology to help build the optimum deployment plan and then to ensure you partner with the best consulting, software and training service providers and new employees available. We offer a fast, personalized and effective, value-based system that will ensure success.

Our experience is extensive. Our repository of information is unparalleled. We operate using Six Sigma and Lean principles and methodologies gained from our wide professional experience. We recognize the importance of cultural awareness and provide a global yet local service. A significant strength of Six Sigma is the structure and discipline that underpins the methodologies used to optimise both processes and new designs. The benefits accruing from DMAIC, DMADV and IDOV, and the toolkits contained within them, are now universally recognised. Six Sigma Brokers believe that a similarly structured and disciplined approach to the deployment process itself is critical to success. Consequently we have created a unique deployment methodology called STARR™ - Strategy, Tactics, Action, Review and Reflect. Supporting each step is a set of tools that maximise the probability of a successful outcome in less time, whilst reducing the risk of things going wrong.

Master Black Belt candidates will be selected from Black Belts who demonstrate the ability to consistently deliver high levels of performance, and have an aptitude for training and mentoring. Master Black Belts will lead complex projects supported by other Black and Green Belts, and will deliver internal training and mentoring within the organisation. Master Black Belts will advise Executives and Managers on ongoing Six Sigma opportunities.

Six Sigma Platform: EQUITANT et Visteon signent un contrat de services mondial

From PRLine.be (Communiqués de presse), Belgium ... Equitant's pervasive culture of measurability, accountability and process-discipline guided by a Six Sigma management platform is the cornerstone of our ...

Equitant's Order-To-Cash proprietary systems and software applications are designed to help deliver key business outcomes to clients, such as increased cash flow and stronger customer relationships. Equitant's systems represent best-in-class solutions to improve O2C workflow, communications, and data integration. Equitant's technology provides clients with critical intelligence on their financial performance and customers.

Equitant enables companies to rapidly achieve and sustain measurable improvements in working capital, costs, and customer satisfaction through our Order-To-Cash management services. Today, we manage billions of dollars of revenue for the world's largest companies, delivering measurable business outcomes that produce real, long-term shareholder value. The Order-To-Cash (O2C™) process is composed of a number of activities: order management, credit analysis and approval, invoice and billing, cash collections, dispute resolution, cash application, and financial reporting and analysis. These activities span and impact multiple areas of the business and can either present undue risk of provide enormous reward.

Kaizen: A lesson in organization

From Battle Creek Enquirer, MI ... give you tips. They reorganized and streamlined their processing room this week under the Kaizen management plan. The processing ...

What is Kaizen: Taken from the Japanese words kai and zen where kai means change and zen means good. The popular meaning is continual improvement of all areas of a company not just quality. Kaizen is actually a way of life philosophy, assuming that every aspect of our life deserves to be constantly improved. The Kaizen philosophy lies behind many Japanese management concepts such as Total Quality Control, Quality Control circles, small group activities, and labor relations. Kaizen is Japanese for "continuous improvement." The method was developed in Japan and first used in the automotive manufacturing industry. It is gaining in popularity because it involves a simple, practical approach to the goal of "process improvement." A Kaizen event is a highly focused, action-oriented, improvement workshop where an improvement team takes immediate action to improve a specific process. Any business process can be improved using Kaizen. In a Kaizen event, a small group of people get together and concentrate on improving one specific process, making a major improvement in five days or less. A Kaizen event is a good way to get instant results... The Kaizen management philosophy is more people-oriented, more easy to implement, and requires long-term discipline.

Lear Honored with Ford's 2003 World Excellence Awards

From Yahoo News (press release) ... Additionally, Lear won a Recognition of Achievement for consumer-driven Six Sigma efforts improvements in headrest production. The ...

...Lear received three Gold Awards for excellence in quality, cost and delivery for interior soft trim produced at our Hermosillo, Mexico facility; seats from our Atlanta, Ga. facility; and textiles from Lear in Sheboygan, Wis. Additionally, Lear won a Recognition of Achievement for consumer-driven Six Sigma efforts improvements in headrest production. The Six Sigma recognition of Achievement is awarded to suppliers that had a Black Belt lead a project that had a direct impact on Ford customer satisfaction...

In an increasingly impersonal world, consumers are craving individual expression more than ever. Lear Corporation lets consumers express themselves through its Common Architecture Strategy and makes it possible for automotive manufacturers to offer their customers the ability to personalize the interior of their vehicle.

The success of Lear is a result of our dedication to serving our customers, understanding their customers: the consumer and continuously improving our process and product quality through the latest technologies. All of this is reflected in Lear’s exclusive People-Vehicle-Interface Methodology™. By utilizing the PVI Method, Lear employs an innovation development discipline that turns market opportunities into the products that consumers want and customers need in their vehicles.

Lear is also a leader among the automotive industry in the Six Sigma application area. Our objective is to maximize manufacturing efficiency and continually raise the bar on customer satisfaction levels to further expand our position as a world-leading supplier of complete automotive interior systems.

Lear Corporation, a FORTUNE 500® company headquartered in Southfield, Mich., USA, focuses on integrating complete automotive interiors, including seat systems, interior trim and electrical systems. With annual net sales of $15.7 billion in 2003, Lear is the world’s largest automotive interior systems supplier. The company’s world-class products are designed, engineered and manufactured by more than 110,000 employees at 280 facilities located in 34 countries.

Six Sigma Career: Equitant Names Two Key Executives...

From TMCnet ... Equitant's pervasive culture of measurability, accountability and process-discipline guided by a Six Sigma management platform is the cornerstone of our ...

Six Sigma Career: Hundreds of Six Sigma Jobs Are Available Now

Here are some sample Six Sigma job opportunities:

Six Sigma Black Belt Job Opportunity - person who has managed operations and/or pricing, marketing initiatives and can champion the principles across an organization. A persuasive selling versus telling style is necessary. Open communication skills and ability to present and articulate ideas to engage a wide audience is critical to success. If you’d like to expand your six sigma skills across a broad range of projects including operations, sales, marketing and finance, then this is a great opportunity with a leading consumer company. 6-10 years experience with a Black Belt in Six Sigma. Flexible work style needed to bring in discipline of six sigma...

Transactional Six Sigma Black Belt Job Opportunity - An opportunity for a Black Belt with solid transactional project work to join thriving Six Sigma program, in a lead Black Belt role, and then rolling off into a Lead Branch/Regional Operations position. As a Certified Black Belt, you must have worked projects in a Transactional environment, and have had previous Operations Experience, with a preference towards P&L responsibility. In addition, you will work closely with Senior Management on Six Sigma initiatives; mentoring and training Green Belts...

Six Sigma Black Belt/ IT Strategy Job Opportunity - Company is enjoying a successful Six Sigma program. They are committed to Six Sigma from the top down, and are seeking dynamic leaders to drive the Six Sigma charge. This expansion position is for an experienced and qualified Six Sigma Black Belt with a strong background in process re-engineering and IT project management strategies. This individual will work closely with the senior leadership, interfacing with the technical IT professionals as well as the Operations Management of this high growth organization. Candidates must possess proven experience in Six Sigma as a methodology. Must have specific training in Six Sigma. Understanding of Voice Of the Customer and customer satisfaction is ideal...

Master Black Belt Job Opportunity - Transform healthcare by bringing Six Sigma tools and tactics to healthcare customers. Deliver value to healthcare customers by improving their key operating performance indicators and by reducing process variation using Six Sigma methodologies. Develop and execute specific project plans using Six Sigma. Participate in delivery of customer accounts as project lead and/or team member. Identify and develop internal resources to deliver on contracts and to expand product/service offerings. Facilitate Six Sigma training and mentoring to develop customer black belts. Conduct regular project reviews with assigned customer black belts to assure accomplishment of key results...

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Six Sigma Business Excellence Breakthrough

From The Texas Technology Showcase ... What is Six Sigma? Six Sigma Defined... A quality discipline that focuses on product and service excellence to create a culture that demands perfection (on target, every time!)... But, it is much more!

Kaizen Influence: Rales Brothers Eclipse Buffett as Danaher Shares Soar

From Bloomberg - Mar 31, 2004 ... Stressing kaizen, a Japanese term for continuous improvement that is a watchword of Toyota's system, gives an exotic flavor to the management discipline. ...