The Six Sigma Handbook, Third Edition Author: Thomas Pyzdek | Language: English | ISBN:
B002R0JXDQ | Format: EPUB
The Six Sigma Handbook, Third Edition Description
The authoritative classic--revised and updated for today's Six Sigma practitioners
Whether you want to further your Six Sigma training to achieve a Black or Green Belt or you are totally new to the quality-management strategy, you need reliable guidance. The Six Sigma Handbook, Third Edition shows you, step by step, how to integrate this profitable approach into your company's culture.
Co-written by an award-winning contributor to the practice of quality management and a successful Six Sigma trainer, this hands-on guide features:
- Cutting-edge, Lean Six Sigma concepts integrated throughout
- Completely revised material focused on project objectives
- Updated and expanded problem-solving examples using Excel and Minitab
- A streamlined format that puts proven practices at your fingertips
The Six Sigma Handbook, Third Edition is the only comprehensive reference you need to make Six Sigma work for your company. The book explains how to organize for Six Sigma, how to use customer requirements to drive strategy and operations, how to carry out successful project management, and more. Learn all the management responsibilities and actions necessary for a successful deployment, as well as how to:
- Dramatically improve products and processes using DMAIC and DMADV
- Use Design for Six Sigma to create innovative products and processes
- Incorporate lean, problem-solving, and statistical techniques within the Six Sigma methodology
- Avoid common pitfalls during implementation
Six Sigma has evolved with the changing global economy, and The Six Sigma Handbook, Third Edition is your key to ensuring that your company realizes significant gains in quality, productivity, and sales in today's business climate.
- File Size: 20256 KB
- Print Length: 560 pages
- Simultaneous Device Usage: Up to 4 simultaneous devices, per publisher limits
- Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional; 3 edition (September 21, 2009)
- Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
- Language: English
- ASIN: B002R0JXDQ
- Text-to-Speech: Enabled
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The book contains a lot of information, but it's very difficult to learn from it. I already knew the basics of 6 Sigma, so I was able to understand what the author was talking about. If I didn't already know the concept, it would have been like reading greek. The book never gives a simple overview of what 6 Sigma means. He explains the details of each piece of the jigsaw puzzle, but doesn't tell you what the puzzle will look like in the end. The book begins not with an explanation of what 6 sigma is, but with the benefits of it. He provides equations on limits of r, u, np, sigma, averages charts, and others, early on, but doesn't explain what those charts are until chapter 8. I kept reading and re-reading, thinking that I missed something. Another example: He uses the term "subgroup" in equations, examples, and descriptions of situations. The term "subgroup" is not defined until page 235. Sure, I tried to look it up in the glossary -- it isn't there. I tried the index, as well. It's not there either. Believe me, if you need to read a book in order to learn and understand 6 Sigma, look elsewhere. I admit, I didn't read the entire book. That's because I didn't learn anything in the first 250 pages.
By David Elliott
I took a very in-depth online Six Sigma certification class. This book was the required textbook for the course. It does thoroughly cover all aspects of Six Sigma, but BE WARNED!! It is dry reading FILLED with acronyms that I don't think even certified black-belts could remember all of. I was glad to see another reviewer comment on the writing style. I also found it poorly written. The author reminds me of a boss I once had- it's the classic "I'll just keep talking over everyone's head, until they see my superior intellect or I convince them of their own stupidity." I consider myself to be well educated, and one who picks up almost any project easily. I found myself scratching my head and asking, "SERIOUSLY? Is this guy for real??" While it probably is the definitive Six Sigma textbook, be prepared for the math, algebra, an alphabet soup of acronyms and more corporate "buzz word" speak than you can shake a stick at!
By R. D. Hill
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