1st Edition

Six Sigma and the Product Development Cycle

By Graham Wilson Copyright 2005
244 Pages
by Routledge

248 Pages
by Routledge

192 Pages
by Routledge

Six sigma is an effective and important management approach particularly used by multinational companies with manufacturing bases in the Asian and Pacific rim. One of the key issues facing businesses today is how to eliminate the high cost of developing new products. This is an area where the potential of six sigma has not been widely appreciated before. Six Sigma and the Product Development... Read more
Culture; What is six sigma?; The transformation that is six sigma; The product development cycle; Quality function deployment; Taguchi’s techniques; Statistical process control; Appendix 1: F-statistics (95% confidence); Appendix 2: F-statistics (99% confidence); Appendix 3: Logarithms (base 10); Appendix 4: Decibel values; Appendix 5: Quality function deployment house of quality summary; Appendix 6: Capability report form; Appendix 7: Attribute data control chart; Appendix 8: Variables data control chart; Index.

Biography

Graham Wilson