The Six Sigma handbook : a complete guide for green belts, black belts, and managers at all levels / Thomas Pyzdek, Paul Keller.
By: Pyzdek, Thomas [author.]
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Contributor(s): Keller, Paul A [author.].
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BookPublisher: New York : McGraw Hill, [2023]Copyright date: ©2024Edition: Sixth edition.Description: xviii, 701 pages : illustrations (black and white).Content type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781265143992 (hardback) .Subject(s): Six sigma (Quality control standard) | Production management | Quality control -- Statistical methodsDDC classification: 658.562 PYZ | Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Notes | Date due | Barcode | |
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
The most important reference to Six Sigma―fully updated for the latest advances
This thoroughly revised, industry-standard guide delivers all the information you need to apply Six Sigma techniques and dramatically improve processes, profitability, sustainability, and long-term growth. Written by two of the foremost authorities in Six Sigma, the book shows you, step by step, how to build the best teams and foster effective leadership while maximizing customer satisfaction and boosting profits. This new edition features a number of important updates, including AI, big data and machine learning, healthcare statistics, and modern supply chain challenges. This hands-on resource also lays out cutting-edge applications for social media data, decision trees, remote technology, and web scrapers.
Coverage includes:
Six Sigma implementation and management Recognizing and capitalizing on opportunity Data-driven management Selecting and supporting Six Sigma projects Six Sigma tools and techniques The define phase The measure phase Measurement systems evaluation The analyze phase The improve/design phase The control/verify phasePrevious edition: 2018.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Building the Responsive Six Sigma Organization -- Recognizing and Capitalizing on Opportunity -- Data-Driven Management -- Selecting and Supporting Six Sigma Projects -- Project Management using DMAIC and DMADV -- The Define Phase -- The Measure Phase -- Process Behavior Analysis -- Measurement Systems Evaluation -- Analyze Phase -- The Improve /Design Phase -- Control / Verify Phase.
Author notes provided by Syndetics
Thomas Pyzdek, Thomas Pyzdek earned his Bachelor's Degree in Liberal Arts from the University of Nebraska at Omaha and earned his Master's in Systems Engineering in 1982, and Management in 1995, from the University of Arizona.Pyzdek taught management statistics at the University of Arizona and for the American Society for Quality. He is a fellow of ASQ and is certified as both a Quality Engineer and a Reliability Engineer. Pyzdek has consulted for such large companies as Avon, McDonalds and Federal Mogul. He himself has launched two successful companies, Quality America, Inc, that specializes in statistical software, and Quality Publishing, Inc. which specializes in books and multimedia training materials. He also writes a regular column for Quality Digest Magazine.
In 1995, Pyzdek was awarded the ASQ Edwards Medal for outstanding contributions to the practice of quality management. He also received the Hughes Engineering Master's Fellowship in 1980. He was a member of the Board of Examiners for the first Malcolm Baldridge National Quality Award and the Panel of Judges for the first Arizona Govenor's Award for Quality. Pyzdek is listed as an Outstanding Writer and Author by the INternational Who's Who in Quality.