What is Six Sigma Lean?
Six Sigma is a customer-focused business-management system developed by Motorola to identify and eliminate the causes of variability and minimize defects.
Lean is a philosophy developed by Toyota to operate a more profitable company by systematically reducing non-value-adding waste and including everyone in the continuous improvement process.
Working together, Six Sigma Lean is a powerful operational excellence strategy with a major focus on employee knowledge, contributions and participation. Six Sigma Lean uses a continuous improvement methodology and accompanying tools to improve productivity, quality and lead time (or service response time) through the discovery and elimination of productivity limitations such as variability, waste and overburden.
