NETWORKING CAFÉ: Monitoring quality with Six Sigma on Monday 5 October 2020

Speaker: Maarten van Beek, project & engineering expert at Worley

What exactly is Six Sigma?

With Six Sigma, you are minimising variation in a business process. This is how you ensure that the performance of your process is increased and consistent quality is ensured. And to break any illusion you may have: (almost) every process has variation. So even if you think your processes run perfectly and always exactly the same; unfortunately. This is (most likely) not true.

Present variation is often noticeable to customers, which in many cases leads to dissatisfaction among them. This works as follows: every process has quality boundaries. That is, limits within which the quality of a process is acceptable to the customer. There is still no problem if the variation remains between these quality limits. However, does this not happen? Then your customer will soon be dissatisfied. The aim of Six Sigma is therefore to minimise variation as much as possible so that it always falls within the quality limits.

Maarten's presentation will be as follows:

- Introduction

- What is Lean Six Sigma?

  • Historical perspective
  • Philosophy and basic idea
  • Toolkit
  • Current status

- Where to apply it and what results to expect

  • Classic production process
  • Supply chains
  • Business processes
  • Project management
  • Engineering

- Alternative continuous improvement programmes

  • Lean
  • 5S
  • TRIZ
  • Agile
  • Kepner Tregoe
  • SPC
  • Using common sense

Questions and discussion

Participation is free, registration is required.

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