DMAIC

A Value Stream Map is… A tool that helps visualize and understand the flow of material and information as a product or service makes its way through the value stream: A high-level map that visually presents the flow of a product or service from supplier to customer can be used…

The sigma value is the relationship between the actual number of failures and the different possible ways that the product or service can fail.

A strategy of implementing “fail-safe mechanisms” to prevent a process from producing defects.A timeless common-sense concept that was more recently popularized by Japanese industrial engineer Shigeo Shingo. Error-proofing is a philosophy whereby it is unacceptable to make even a very small number of defects or mistakes, and the only way…

Once the improvements have been implemented, the team needs to ensure that the project goals have been attained and that the required measures for sustainability are in place