Six Sigma

99%

Is 99% good enough elsewhere?

99% Accuracy

• 12 babies to the wrong parents each day
• 103,260 tax returns processed incorrectly
• 880,000 credit cards with wrong info on magnetic stripe
• 20,000 incorrect drug prescriptions written each year

Six Sigma is a method for achieving near-perfect quality

Sigma Levels

• 30.9% / 691,462 defects per million
• 69.1% / 308,538 defects per million
• 93.3 / 66,807 defects per million
• 99.4 / 6,210 defects per million
• 99.9 / 233 defects per million
• 99.99966% / 3.4 defects per million

Leading manufacturers use Six Sigma

3M

Apple

Ford

NASA

Rock-well

UPS

Today's Objective:
Demonstrate the ability to test and refine a manufacturing production process for use by others.

Today

• Complete production kits
• Test production kits
• Refine production kits as required
• Be ready to trade kits at the beginning of class Wednesday
• Answer questions in packet.
• If time permits, work on SolidWorks tutorials.