GainSeeker® Provides Missing Link for Transactional Six Sigma

GainSeeker Suite forms a critical link between your business system and other Six Sigma tools. Many organizations fail to achieve the full benefit of Six Sigma efforts because their tools lack connectivity to the business systems generating the data.

GainSeeker Suite reduces the costs and cycle times of Six Sigma projects by:

  • Capturing the right data to drive business transformation
  • Connecting with other information systems to streamline and reduce data acquisition costs
  • Sustaining the gains in the Control Phase with real-time data collection and control failure notification
  • Multiplying ROI from existing business systems by making better use of data
  • Focusing attention on improvement goals through innovative Defect Improvement Charts
  • Quickly uncovering hidden sources of variation with automated analysis by GainSeeker Wizards
  • Deploying in weeks, not months or years

Measurement systems rounds out Six Sigma software infrastructure

Since the early days of Six Sigma, professionals have relied on software. Most people recognize two main types of software packages: Project Tools (like MINITAB) and Deployment Tools (like ProjX or Enterprise Track). If Six Sigma had stayed on the manufacturing floor, that might be all you'd ever need. Transactional Six Sigma often looks for data from Business Systems. Surprisingly, these environments are typically data poor.

Transactional areas are typically data poor because business systems:

  • Contain too much of the wrong type of information
  • Do not have the right level of data granularity
  • Report on the Critical Y, with no knowledge of the Key and Important Xs that drive the Y
  • Do not support Six Sigma and lack key connecting points such as date and time stamps
  • Are not Black Belt friendly
  • Lack easy-to-use ad hoc query tools for asking new questions from the data

Transactional Six Sigma calls for a Measurement System that sits between the business system and the other Six Sigma tools. This Measurement System should:

  • Harvest data from existing business systems
  • Massage data as needed
  • Collect additional data details if needed
  • Standardize this collected data to simplify Six Sigma analysis

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GainSeeker Suite is that measurement system

The GainSeeker Suite supports your Transactional Six Sigma efforts:

  • Connect easily to business systems, Six Sigma project tools and Six Sigma deployment tools
  • Build a rich warehouse of enterprise data for easy access and data sharing with project tools and deployment tools
  • Provide a framework for infrastructure solutions to both IT staff and Six Sigma practitioners
  • Enforce your procedures for detecting and responding to out-of-control conditions and other failures
  • Ask process owners for additional detail at the time a problem occurs. For example, when an order misses a critical milestone, GainSeeker can ask the process owner to record what happened
  • Provide the correct level of data granularity for achieving Six Sigma improvements

GainSeeker Suite forms a critical but often overlooked link between your company’s business systems and other Six Sigma tools. GainSeeker Suite helps you capture the right data to drive business transformation through process improvement.