Dominion Six Sigma Workforce Adoption

Dominion Six Sigma journey has spanned almost a decade and trained over one third of the workforce on the path to excellence. ...



Dominion has integrated Six Sigma into all facts of improvement in the company. For example, safety performance is approaching the best practice in the utility industry. ...

Dominion Dimensions (PDF): "The company’s award-winning Six Sigma process improvement program has contributed to this success. It has helped reduce accidents and injuries at our Dominion Virginia Power unit, cut gas losses at Dominion Energy, slashed water usage at our fossil power stations, and boosted productivity at our nuclear stations. "

NYC Management Statistical Controls

New York City refines its key performance indicators to sustain its management visibility reporting process. It is not unusual, in the Six Sigma control phase, to revise the measurement system with an updated set of relevant KPI's. ...

... "The administration said that a substantial number of the indicators that were dropped had become outdated and noted that it had added about 200 new measurements to a streamlined version of the Mayor’s Management Report" ...

Via New York Times: Management Statistics

The NYC management report (PDF) reviews the performance of each department or office.

Manufacturing Sector Contraction

The Institute for Supply Management manufacturing index shows continued contraction of activity by manufacturers across broad industry sectors. ...

... "Manufacturing contracted in December as the PMI registered 32.4 percent, 3.8 percentage points lower than the 36.2 percent reported in November. This is the lowest reading since June 1980 when the PMI registered 30.3 percent. A reading above 50 percent indicates that the manufacturing economy is generally expanding; below 50 percent indicates that it is generally contracting. " ...

Via Institute for Supply Management: December 2008 Manufacturing Report

Lean Accounting Lacking

Manufacturers in UK could benefit from applying lean accounting practices to complement their manufacturing improvement initiatives. ...

... "manufacturers are not using the right financial metrics in measuring and monitoring their improvements under lean manufacturing. As a result, it could be reducing the benefits available under continuous improvement processes. " ...

Via Birmingham Post: UK Lean accounting

Six Sigma Measurement Systems

Understand how your customers measure success and position your product or service to exceed their expectation in a differentiated way. Be prepared to offer the associated metrics. ...

... "If their company is involved in Six Sigma or other quality-type initiatives, measurement is an integral part of their operations. Your job is to uncover the existing metrics. That means you need to ask about what they track and how they measure results. " ...

Via 4Hoteliers: Value Proposition

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