Large scale performance improvement projects can boost profitability by 3-5% of revenue. Despite so much real upside, most ...

Manufacturing quality evaluation is a critical discipline that focuses on assessing a process’s ability to produce outputs within pre‐defined tolerance limits. Recent advances combine traditional ...

In a highly competitive market, a plastic parts company leveraged Lean Six Sigma methodologies, particularly Process Capability Analysis (C pk and P pk), to analyze supplier performance and ...

According to Jeffery Liker’s book, The Toyota Way, it’s estimated that most business processes are 90% waste and 10% value-added work. Value-added activities in a process are considered those that ...

Federal agencies face growing pressure to modernize outdated IT systems to meet evolving mission demands, improve service delivery and strengthen cybersecurity. But modernization must go beyond ...

Dr. Jim Kane addressed the Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI), ISO 9000, Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) and Six Sigma alternative frameworks for process improvement for ...

Small businesses need to remain continually agile to respond to a changing business climate internally and externally. Demand shifts and technology changes. Competitors enter the market. Businesses ...