Use DMAIC

Use DMAIC

1. Must now do to remain competitive

   • Faster embraces everything from product development to through-put to productivity to speed to market.
   • Better means higher quality, innovation, fewer defects and less variation.
   • Cheaper translates into reduced costs, less waste, greater efficiency and bottom-line benefits

2. The seven-step process:

   • 1. Define the system
   • 2. Assess the situation
   • 3. Analyze the cause
   • 4. Try out an improvement theory
   • 5. Study the results
   • 6. Standardize improvements
   • 7. Plan for continuous improvement

3. 8D

   • Refers to the eight disciplines the company fol-lows in the identification, investigation and resolution of problems.
     • Team contact
     • Problem description
     • Root cause analysis
     • Action taken (interim)
     • Action taken (permanent)
     • Verification of action
     • Prevention
     • Team congratulations

4. PDCA cycle

   • Plan
     • Recognize an opportunity and plan a change
   • Do
     • Test the change. Carry out a small scale study
   • Check
     • Review the test, analyze the results and identify what you’ve learned
   • Act
     • Take action based on what you learned in the study step