https://qz.com/work/1635960/whatever-happened-to-six-sigma/
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Haha, apparently no one told Culp that Six Sigma was "86'd"
Whatever happened to six-sigma? It was 86'd.
Six Sigma - a useless designation that requires someone to spend $ to get it on their LinkedIn site. Much like PMP.
Six sigma was introduced at a time when most engineers were quite busy. The only people who had time to take the early six sigma courses were engineers that nobody wanted on their team. They became the Black Belts, knocking off meaningless Green Belt projects. They became current crop of managers that destroyed the Company.
GE always blames the vendor or customer for any problems that happen. Most of the time it’s GE’s lack of effective communication and management with the vendor. GE always wants to blame the customer for lack of maintenance. The gas turbine blade failures and the collapsed wind turbines recently was not caused from lack of maintenance. It is a result of GE’s disconnect from reality and engineering design. In other words, GE imagines and produces junk.
"I just opened a box of parts from a vendor. What a mess. Almost half of them had to be written up as non-conformances. Obviously, our vendors never heard of six sigma."
Excellent point ! You can add GD&T to that pile too. GE has been making turbines for over 100 years. And it wasn't until the early 90's they decided to add GD&T to every drawing. Regardless if the people applying it to drawings or making the parts understood it. Here we are 30 years later and people still don't grasp the concept of how to apply it, read it, or explain it. And neither do the people making parts from the drawings.
Just remember on that 20/70/10 formula the 20 are the OMLP’s covering each other with a false sense of intelligence.. the 70 are the ones just trying to do their little section of tasks each day ...the 10 are those talented ones that were a threat to the OMLP’s be it capability, competence, or backbone... and there is your problem ...
Six sigma is old hat. Time to move on to a more successful formula not something yer granny would puke at.
I just opened a box of parts from a vendor. What a mess. Almost half of them had to be written up as non-conformances. Obviously, our vendors never heard of six sigma.
You guys like to complain.
I remember the facility manager in Greenville fought to keep Six Sigma when everybody else was laughing and joking about how worthless it is. That dude is a useless, arrogant, rump kisser. He is such an embedded parasite that it laughable.
Wow 4sdr you hit that one spot on! Don’t forget all the spell checkers with too much time on their hands!
Too many managers and black belts and bean counters trying to make themselves and their positions relevant and stay relevant. Poorly executed. The same with the 20/70/10. It became a weapon.
Just another concept that GE b–tardized and ruined. The rule that you had to be a blackbelt before you could be a manager was just one of the many screw ups implemented!
Just another buzzword and catch phrase to reel in investors. If it really worked, there would be very few defects in the administrative and manufacturing process. Just look around. Waste, defects, and poor procedures abound.
it was just another initiative and ironically implemented and measured incorrectly
Six sigma just one tool in a box of tools. It more amusing that immelt want the company to act like a startup aka fast works.Now that was funny to watch as everyone jumped on the bandwagon
Nice article, inaccurate but about the right idea. What happened, from my point of view, is that the vast majority of people who were good at six sigma have left GE.