Six Sigma

Who is considered to be the father of Six Sigma?

• Bill Smith

• Walter Shewhart

• Jack Welch

• None

The concept of Six Sigma was developed by the following company.

• General Electric

• Motorola

• Honeywell

• DuPont

Six Sigma strategies seek to improve the quality of the output of a process by

• identifying the causes of defects

• removing the causes of defects

• minimizing variability in manufacturing

• all of the above

Combination of Six Sigma and Lean manufacturing is known as

• Advanced Six Sigma

• Lean Six Sigma

• Operational Six Sigma

• None

“DMAIC” is used for projects aimed at

• improving an existing business process

• creating new product or process designs

• Both (A) and (B)

• None of the above

In “DMAIC”, M stands for

• Measure

• Method

• Machine

• Manpower

The percentage yield in Six Sigma is

• 93.3

• 99.38

• 99.977

• 99.99966

Six Sigma is a managerial approach designed to create processes resulting in at most how many defects?

• 340 defects per million

• 34 defects per 100,000

• 34 defects out of 10,000

• 3.4 defects per million

When following the five-step process known as the DMAIC Model, in which step are the root causes of why defects occur determined?

• Measure

• Improve

• Control

• Analyze

In DMADV, the second "D" (which is the 4th letter) stands for:

• Do

• Design

• Duplicate

• Dedicate