What is Six Sigma and what are the advantages of six sigma
Origin Mapping Starting from the dabbawallas in the busy streets of Mumbai, Lean and Six Sigma approaches have reaped positive results for aerospace companies. Mapping the impact of Lean and Six sigma compels digging into the advent of this performance regulatory model. Rooted 1980s USA, Motorola, a well-known telecommunications company, devised this methodology while trying to counter the kaizen manufacturing model of Japan. The beauty of globalization lies in the fact that eventually the strategies that were supposed to counter each other eventually merged into one. A combined model of Lean manufacturing also called kaizen and Six Sigma appeared for the first time in 2002 in a book titled Lean Six Sigma by authors Micheal George and Robert Lawrence Jr. Lean manufacturing traditionally operated in minimizing discharge in the manufacturing units. Six sigma focused on quality by recognizing and eliminating ineffective processes in the manufacturing chronologies. As a co...