No formal approach. No systematic approach evident, no results, poor results or. Reactive approach. Problem- or prevention-based systematic approach;. Stable formal system. Systematic process-based approach, early stage of. Continual improvement. Improvement process in use; good results and emphasized.
Best-in-class performance. Strongly integrated improvement process; best-in-class. CMM also refers specifically to the first such model, developed by the Software. Engineering Institute SEI in the mids, as well as the family of process models that followed.
The Capability Maturity Model can be used to assess an organization against a scale of five process. Each level ranks the organization according to its standardization of processes in the. The subject areas can be as diverse as software engineering, systems. The first CMM was for the purpose of developing and refining software development processes. A maturity model provides:. A maturity model can be used as a benchmark for assessing different organizations for equivalent.
It describes the maturity of the company based upon the project the company is dealing. Structure of CMM. Managed — Managers consistently capture data on their processes and use that data to keep processes on track. Level 5, as described by CMM, is nothing less that the company-wide embrace of process quality that we see at Toyota and at GE.
Once CMM was established, SEI proceeded to gathered large amounts of information on software organizations and begin to certify organizations as being level 1, 2, etc. The fact that several Indian software firms were able to establish themselves as CMM Level 5 organizations is often credited with the recent, widespread movement to outsource software development to Indian companies.
At some point there were several different models, and, recently, SEI has made an effort to pull all of the different approaches back together and have called the new version CMMI — Capability Maturity Model Integrated.
At the same time, SEI has generalized the model so that CMMI extends beyond software development and can be used to describe entire companies and their overall process maturity Chrissis et al. We will consider some new developments in this approach, later, but suffice to say here that CMMI is very much in the Quality Control tradition with it emphasis on output standards and statistical measures of quality.
If one considers all of the individuals working in companies who are focused on quality control, in all its variations like Lean and Six Sigma, they surely constitute the largest body of practitioners working for process improvement today. Six Sigma and Lean The goals of Six Sigma and Lean are in alignment because both are designed to improve process efficiency, eliminate waste, improve quality, and create efficiency in systems. This is accomplished by streamlining and improving processes across the business.
These all above defined standards series together improves product quality and service to customer. Seaver, Matt, 4. Introduction Six Sigma is different from the other processes in a way that it mainly concentrates on measuring the existing process while the other provides a way to create a new process for producing a product.
Six Sigma measures existing process and will modify it in a way that number of defects is reduced. Using Six Sigma we can only reduce the number of defects but we cannot produce zero defective system. In Six Sigma we can have a maximum of 3. It means that if we produce a million products we can just have 3 to 4 defective products. Persse, James R. Variation of data will be in a very predictable manner, most of the data will fall under the middle.
We measure variation in terms of Standard deviation. So, if we plot a graph between standard deviation and number of values under each deviation we will get a curve which is in a bell shape, normally referred to as bell curve.
Example of bell curve is shown below in figure 1. Figure 1. Above diagram just plots the graph until 3 standard deviations but if we can plot until 6 standard deviations almost So, this process is called Six Sigma.
Six in Six Sigma is not mandatory it depends on the type of business we are doing, customer requirements, quality we want and so on. They were in the pagers business and those pagers have quality problems, so they want to find a way to measure their existing process and want to find defects in that process.
Then they created this Six Sigma process. In that way it became very popular. He and his team made many changes to the original process. The Six Sigma what we right now using is mostly the one developed by Jack Welch and his team. As these many companies developed no body actually owns Six Sigma. It is an open source product and has no governing body which is the chief weak point of Six Sigma.
As there is no governing body many companies hesitate to implement this process. All these institutions are developing and maintaining Six Sigma but not have coordination between them. Those seven steps are 1. The first step is looking at the product in which we study what the product is, quality of the product and the way we are producing it.
Next, we try to identify the defects in the product. After identifying the defects in the product, we will look at the process. Here we understand the complete process which we are using to produce a product. If we have some defects in the product it is very likely to have defects in the process that is used to produce that product. Then we identify the sources for the defects. Once we know the actual sources for the defects then we improve the existing process by eliminating the actual sources for defects.
Then we will use the new process. Again, we will go to step 1 which indicates the feedback loop and also clearly states that Six Sigma is a continuous process and always tries to make process better and better. The Quality in that term is very important and very different from what actually quality means here Quality means what customer wants.
The main aim of Six Sigma is to deliver what customers want. The first step in Six Sigma is gathering what customer wants and then it concentrates on measuring the existing process. Here X and Y are two variables and according to the equation it is clear that X depend on Y.
It is the simple equation to express the cause and effect relation. Here Y is the cause and X is the effect we cannot directly control effect, the only way to control X is to control Y. Six Sigma concentrates on Y. After X is known we decompose it into several smaller parts to find Y.
Here we start modifying Y so as to reduce the number of defects in overall process. In order to modify Y, we have two steps to follow, first we have to know how our product works in the real time environment that means in the typical floor conditions. If the performance of it varies a lot from the ideal performance then we have to know the reasons why it is varying so? These are the original reasons for the defects and we can modify them to increase the quality of our process. So all the people who might be disturbed must be well prepared before the actual measuring process takes place.
Six Sigma concentrates on improving the quality quantitatively so establishing an empirical basis is extremely important.
This may include things like manuals and tutorial sessions and so on. Certification typically involves three steps. Training 2. Written test 3. Hands on competency display The major disadvantage of this certification is that there is no particular measure to say whether any individual pass of fail to display competency. Beth, M. The team contains several designations which we will discuss in detail. They are the high-level managers in any organization.
They act as executive sponsors to the project. They direct and develop Six Sigma projects. They are responsible for implementing the project across the organization in an integrated way.
They must have good understanding of DMAIC and can be able to apply statistics to complex applications. These people assist champions and will guide the next level designation Black belt people. They must be able to manage Six Sigma projects as well as Six Sigma teams. In order to claim to be a master black belt one must have save at least hundreds of thousands of dollars for the company.
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