Why Six Sigma?

Achieving Six Sigma means that your business processes produce fewer than four defects per million. Most companies today operate at around three sigma or 67,000 defects per million.

Don't be fooled!

Achieving Six Sigma is difficult, involves everyone in the company and it is not only about statistics.

Why is it difficult?

Because you will have to think in a new way, gain commitment from everyone and be determined to be the best.

How can it be achieved?

By getting guidance from people who have experience in industry and take a pragmatic approach. People who understand the day-to-day pressures on a company, and want to get their hands dirty by working on your real problems with your own experts.

Why work with us?

We understand the issues that affect your business. We know that you will need a wide range of skills from IT support through to in-depth statistics.

We know that you will need training and support in a number of techniques not all of which are statistical. We know there will be organisational implications and can help to resolve those.

We also know you will need to achieve success early without committing lots of resources.

This is how we prefer to work:

• We ask you to identify a process related problem.
  
• We help you to assemble a cross-functional team.
  
• We work with the team to apply our methodology for process improvement.
  
• As the methodology identifies tools and techniques required to improve the process, we will provide the necessary training and help you apply them (Just-In-Time Training).
  

Benefits from this approach include:

• Process improvements will provide an immediate return on investment in training.
  
• The cross-functinal team will learn about the appropriate tools and techniques.
  
• We will show the organisation a better way of problem solving, based on a rigorous method and facts.
  

We provide a comprehensive package of IT and statistical tools and expertise to support you quality improvement programme. We support all of the popular off-the-shelf software including SAS, Excel, Minitab, Cornerstone and RS/1.

Our comprehensive consulting service offers the following:

• Project management for the introduction of Six Sigma and other quality initiatives.
  
• Deployment of a methodology for process improvement and the achievement of Six Sigma.
  
• Implementation of new software or improving the use of existing software through additional training, tailoring or platform migration.
  
• Programming applications to achieve specific results for production and engineering.
  
• Developing control strategies and SPC procedures.
  
• Designing and analysing statistically robust experiments for process optimisation and improvement.
  

Our training works at a number of levels and is tailored to use your company data and examples:

• Those new to statistics can learn about process variation, sourcesof error, distributions, control charts and how to interpret them.
  
• For process engineers we deliver more advances courses in Statistical process Control, Failure Modes and Effects Analysis, Gauge Repeatability and Reproducibility.
  
• Those involved in R&D or those responsible for process optimisation will benefit from a broad range of statistical methods, including Design of Experiments and Quality Function Deployment (QFD)
  
• A range of management training is also available, introducing the concepts and background to the basic techniques and highlighting the business benefits gained from their application.
  

Talk to us about your requirements and let's see if we can help. For more information telephone 44 (0)118 934 5722 or email.