Chapter 7Green Six Sigma in Manufacturing, Services, Projects and SMEs
7.1 Introduction
The first wave of Six Sigma, following the grand groundwork carried out by Motorola, included AlliedSignal, Texas Instruments, Ratheon and Polaroid (to name a few). GE entered the arena in the mid-1990s and in turn was followed by many powerful corporations including Sony, Dow, Bombardier and GSK. The ability to leverage the experience of successful Six Sigma players proved highly attractive both as a competitive issue and also to improve profit margins. However, the early applications were focused on large manufacturing as reflected by these examples. In the second wave of Six Sigma came Lean Six Sigma and we saw successful ...
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