"Leveraging Technology to Transform Culture" complements the Aberdeen Group's 'Lean Six Sigma Benchmark Report". Where the Benchmark Report identifies a long list of specific challenges facing companies adopting Lean Six Sigma, this white paper summarizes those into three areas: Cultural, Training and Data; and explains how these challenges are intertwined.
Executive Overview While you’d have to travel a long way to find a business leader who would argue against the need to create a data driven organization, if you put a dozen leaders in a room you’d probably end up with nearly a dozen definitions of the "data driven organization." Lacking a common understanding [...]
Adapting to the rigors of Six Sigma requires significant culture change for most companies and many find it a challenge. Companies are finding innovative ways to address this issue along with the usual training programs and by attempting to introduce change gradually. However, training needs to reach the mind, heart and soul of a company and must be an ongoing effort.
This white paper gives examples of understanding process variation in a manufacturing situation, but they apply equally other situations. Examples might include understanding variations in sales performance, wait times in hospital emergency rooms, cycle times for order fulfillment. GainSeeker allows you to group data by time period, process change, or any traceability field.
This white paper explores the key Information Technology (IT) issues that engineers and quality professionals should consider when developing a net contents or weight control program. The intent of this paper is to give non-IT specialists the background they need to better communicate with their IT counterparts and other business leaders, and thus have more effective conversations.
OPC (OLE for Process Control) is an industry standard created with the collaboration of a number a leading worldwide automation and hardware software suppliers working in cooperation with Microsoft. OPC creates an interface between hardware and software systems.
GainSeeker 7.5 introduces new features for supporting localized (non-English) deployments. However it does not meet all the requirements for a fully localized release. This white paper outlines what can and cannot be done with the system. What Description Status Operator prompts during data entry. Messages given to the operator during data entry. Examples might [...]
The quality and engineering teams for a tier-one exterior automotive lighting systems supplier dramatically increased the reliability of their collected data and their credibility with their customer in using GainSeeker automated reports. Meanwhile, costs and efforts required to properly service the customer were reduced.
The quality and engineering teams for a tier-one exterior automotive lighting systems supplier dramatically increased the reliability of their collected data and their credibility with the customer by using GainSeeker automated reports. Meanwhile, costs and efforts required for properly servicing the customer were reduced.
A hi-tech audio equipment manufacturer reported a 171% ROI the first six months after using GainSeeker, 98% of which was derived from increased throughput and improved first pass yield. The other 2% came from reduced costs in data collection.
