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INTEGRATING LEAN AND SIX SIGMA

Lean and Six Sigma both provide customers with the best possible quality, cost, delivery, and a
newer attribute, nimbleness (the quality of being quick and exact either in movement or thoughts).
There is a great deal of overlap between the two disciplines; however, they both approach their
common purpose from slightly different angles:

• Lean focuses on waste reduction, whereas Six Sigma emphasizes variation reduction.

• Lean achieves its goals by using less technical tools such as

 kaizen,
 workplace organization, and
 visual controls,

whereas Six Sigma tends to use

 statistical data analysis,


 design of experiments, and
 hypothesis testing.

Often successful implementations begin with the lean approach, making the workplace as efficient
and effective as possible, reducing waste, and using value stream maps to improve understanding
and throughput. If process problems remain, more technical Six Sigma statistical tools may then be
applied.

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