Design for Six SIGMA

By Robert Launsby and Greg Brue

Book Overview

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DESIGN FOR SIX SIGMA

Six Sigma has revolutionized the ways in which companies meet and beat today's stringent quality expectations. But achieving Six Sigma results first requires Six Sigma building blocks. Design for Six Sigma unveils a systematic methodology for enabling the design of products, services, and processes to meet Six Sigma quality levels.

Designed to be easily read and implemented, this concise Briefcase Book shows managers at all levels how to include Six Sigma at the earliest stages of virtually any manufacturing process. Here are DFSS's techniques for:

Optimizing the design process to achieve Six Sigma performance Integrating Six Sigma from the outset of new product development Self-examinations, explanatory sidebars, and chapter-ending checklists

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0071413766
• ISBN13: 9780071413763
• Release Date: June 2003
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Good High-Level Summary

A tightly written, high-level summary of working with Six Sigma in the product development and commercialization area. The book is particularly relevant for consumer product businesses. That said, if your firm deals with the FDA, there are a number of aspects in the book that correlate perfectly with the FDA's Quality by Design initiative to encourage pharmaceutical and medical device companies to build safety and efficacy into their products from Day One on the drawing table rather than toward the end in clinical trials. Specifically, you'll find the PIDOV (Plan, Identify, Design, Optimize, Validate) methodology helpful, as well as the CtQ (Critical to Quality) concept. If your firm already uses Six Sigma in manufacturing and operations, this book will give you enough information to make the decision if you want to implement Six Sigma earlier in your product development cycle. As an overview, this book is targeted at managers and senior executives, and should not be mistaken for a "how-to" manual. J. Avellanet, Cerulean Associates LLC

Design for Success

Very readable and applicable to new product introduction success. I liked the use of sidebars and icons for definitions,tools, cautions, tricks of the trade, examples and smart managing tips. Management checklists at the end of each chapter were good for summarizing and action planning. Generous use of references for more detailed information on specific tools and methods allowed focus on main topic of DFSS methodology and organization/management issues of implementation. Left me with desire to get more involved with DFSS in new product development to improve a company's growth.