Re: Six Sigma--an unfinishing journey of learning

[demingtw <demingtw@ms17.hinet.net>]

Paul Beven wrote:
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> Before we wrap-up,please let some black-belt experts answer Deming's
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Thanks for the posting. I hope most of us can learn something from all
the sound and noise about about so-called 6 Sigma programs or promotion.
Some of my 'against the currents' and perhaps with a little emotional
comments are based on our usderstanding of the magic word called 6
Sigma.
 
We didn't communicate well for what is this 'new' generation of 6 Sigma
means operationally. You didn't answer WED's cencerns in definition and
measuring processes issues(to which Motorola has its systems to answer
but you answered the benifits-as-the-result part only), not to mention
about the more important and maybe intangible savings of '6 sigma'.

I think this learning(if I can communicate well) is one of the key
contributions WED taught us. I hope people in this web can have some
shared or common understandings of of it instead of using Understanding
Variation or System Thinking labels, because what your understandings of
these might be different from mime or others'.I still can not convinced
current 6 Sigma is a legacy of W. A. Shewhart or WED.This is another
example of guilty by association.

I hope later some people might write a best-selling book on 6 Sigma
instead making it as a proprietary one so that it can be
learned,reviewed and commented by outsiders.

Hanching Chung
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