The Six Sigma Way Team Fieldbook: An Implementation Guide for Process Improvement Teams

Index

A

Accountability, 24

Action alarms, 349

Advanced tools

design of experiments, 231, 270, 277–79, 329

Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA), 326–28

House of Quality, 91, 122

Quality Function Deployment (QFD), 120–22

regression analysis, 230–31, 274–77

short- and long-term capability calculation, 187–90

statistical significance testing, 229–30, 270–74

Affinity diagrams, 58

Affinity process, 55, 56–57, 58

Agendas, 47–48, 68

Agreement, on team ground rules, 50

Alternative paths, 291, 386

Analogy method, 307–8

Analysis of variance (ANOVA), 229, 273

Analyze stage

advanced tools, 269–79

approaches, 200–1, 235

basic goal, 198

closing steps, 231–34, 266–69

data exploration tools, 202–13, 236–47

data hypotheses, 213–17, 247–53

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