Lean Six Sigma

Lean Six Sigma: Advantages and Disadvantages.
This essay examines the advantages and disadvantages of implement Lean and Six Sigma to improvement in manufacturing and service operations. The level of Quality Management adoption and the correct use of the Improvement Approaches are hypothesized to be the factors that determine the result of implementing Lean Six Sigma. Literature review on implementing Lean and Six Sigma shows that low level of Quality Management adoption has a negative impact on the success of Lean Six Sigma. The implication for managers are: first, they have to understand the scope and limits of quality approaches; second, before any LSS programme, companies must to apply quality assessment in order to be prepared to implement Lean, Six Sigma or both. The value of this essay is in providing an explanation about the success and fail of companies in its way to LSS.

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Implementing Lean Six Sigma: Advantages and Disadvantages.
Abstract.
This essay examines the advantages and disadvantages of implement Lean and Six Sigma to improvement in manufacturing and service operations. The level of Quality Management adoption and the correct use of the Improvement

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