• DocumentCode
    809953
  • Title

    What´s different about Six Sigma?

  • Author

    Catherwood, Phil

  • Author_Institution
    Welsh Dev. Agency, UK
  • Volume
    81
  • Issue
    4
  • fYear
    2002
  • fDate
    8/1/2002 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    186
  • Lastpage
    189
  • Abstract
    The Six Sigma approach is one of the more recent initiatives adopted by organisations who seek to make a paradigm shift in performance improvement (attacking at least one of the cost, quality, delivery measurements for improved competitiveness). Is there anything new about Six Sigma, does it offer improvements that other approaches cannot, or is it just a clever delivery of repackaged goods? The author investigates the above questions related to the Six Sigma approach
  • Keywords
    management science; production control; project management; Six Sigma method; UK companies; manufacturing company; organisations; production control; project management;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Manufacturing Engineer
  • Publisher
    iet
  • ISSN
    0956-9944
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1049/me:20020410
  • Filename
    1029458
    • Link To Document
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