Quality Management for Organizations Using Lean Six Sigma Techniques

299Chapter fourteen: Measure

It is desirable to use variable data as it provides more knowledge and, hence, proper

conversion techniques have to be applied. Instead of binary attribution to represent

data as good or bad, a degree of tness within tolerance level can be represented. Cost

of collection has to be considered as measurement using instruments is expensive due

to variability, slow speed, and analyze by secure storage of the overload of values like

mean, standard deviation, and other statistical estimates of given population. The attri-

bute data type has fewer values to store but manually procuring data requires skill. The

type of ...