Product Description

* Includes new and expanded coverage of Six Sigma infrastructure building and benchmarking.
* Provides plans, checklists, metrics, and pitfalls.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #93107 in Books
• Published on: 2003-04-07
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 1229 pages

Review
"...a useful guide for both academia and organizations...useful source of reference for researchers...an excellent reference book..." -- The TQM Magazine, Vol 15(6) 2003

"An excellent reference book that should be on every individual involved in Six Sigma or even just quality assurance/quality improvement." (TQM Magazine) "...a useful guide for both academia and organizations...useful source of reference for researchers...an excellent reference book..." (The TQM Magazine, Vol 15(6) 2003)

"An excellent reference book that should be on every individual involved in Six Sigma or even just quality assurance/quality improvement." -- TQM Magazine

"The book is process oriented rather than tool oriented. This makes it refreshing and useful. This is a book every reliability engineer should own." (Reliability Review; 12/08)

"An excellent reference book that should be on every individual involved in Six Sigma or even just quality assurance/quality improvement." (TQM Magazine)

"...a useful guide for both academia and organizations...useful source of reference for researchers...an excellent reference book..." (The TQM Magazine, Vol 15(6) 2003)

Review
2004 Crosby Medal Winner

From the Back Cover
"No other book covers–at an adequate technical level–as many topics important to Six Sigma. An indispensable reference for the Six Sigma practitioner."
—Ramon V. Leon
Associate Professor, Statistics Department of the University of Tennessee
Associate editor, Six Sigma Forum magazine

"Breyfogle’s book should be valuable to every Six Sigma professional."
—Bill Scherkenback
Director, Samsung Quality Team

"The seamless integration of statistical methodologies . . . helps organizations execute their strategic plans and track both short- and longer-term strategic progress within their various departments and overall organizations."
—Donald C. Fisher, PhD
Executive Director, MSQPC–The Quality Center

"Implementing Six Sigma provides the most up-to-date material on the topic, complete with a project infrastructure roadmap and hundreds of real-life examples and exercises."
—Frank Shines
Project Manager, Pilgrim Software

This new and significantly revised edition of Implementing Six Sigma goes well beyond traditional Six Sigma methodologies, introducing an enhanced roadmap–S4/IEE (Smarter Six Sigma Solutionssm/Integrated Enterprise Excellence). This cutting-edge approach offers a solution to the common problem of sustaining Six Sigma activities and downplays the traditional policy stating that Six Sigma projects must have a defined defect. A variety of plans, checklists, metrics, and warnings of potential pitfalls provide thorough preparation for anyone implementing Six Sigma strategies.

With new coverage of Six Sigma infrastructure building, benchmarking, and real-world "lessons learned," this Second Edition is the best available tool for implementing these

powerful, profit-building strategies.

Customer Reviews

Highly recommended Six Sigma resource
Statistical tools and methodologies used by Six Sigma are not new but generally have been reserved for Quality and Engineering functions. My training and experience with Six Sigma crossed paths with employees across all departments - Buyers, Supervisors, floor employees, Human Resources, Finance, as well as Quality and Engineering personnel.

What makes "Implementing Six Sigma" significant is you do not have to be an expert in statistics or even in the Quality field to understand and implement the tools of Six Sigma. Forrest details and further defines the tools in an easy to read format, plenty of exercises and examples, and a thorough appendix. I didn't discover this book until recently and have since replaced over a dozen reference books.

Depending on the problem at hand, tool usage varies and not all are applicable (to one's project) or taught in training. I had excellent Black Belt instructors but Forrest's book would have come in handy during my training and would have been an invaluable resource when facilitating Green Belt training. Recommended for those new, and not so new, to Six Sigma.

6 sigma explained
Six sigma is faddish and overhyped. However the use of six sigma ideas along with many other useful statistical methods for development of high quality products has had a positive influence on many manufacturing systems in the US and elsewhere. This falls under the umbrella of Total Quality Management which is a system that encourage engineers to learn and impliment statistical quality control techniques, design of experiments, statistical process control and other things in the black belt training program. Six sigma is an important part of that. This book is a very thick and detailed text on the use of six sigma methods to produce very high quality systems. Although it is a long text, it cuts through the smokescreens and hype to get to heart of the matter. I recommend either edition as a great reference text and learning tool.

Good reference source for Six Sigma
At 700+ pages, this is the equivalant of a college level text book on applying Six Sigma methods. I suggest it be used as a reference guide in conjunction with a formal six sigma training program, (The author includes this book in his Six Sigma training seminars) as it is an excellent tools and reference book. The book also gives a good introduction and walk through on how a six sigma program is typically implemented. The appendix contains an excellent glossary of six sigma terms and symbols.

The only criticism I have is that some of the explanations on relatively simple concepts (Cause & Effect diagrams, FMEA, etc.) are a little more verbose than they need to be.