What is Six Sigma: A Complete Overview

When entrepreneurs has fixed the necessary finance for a business startup, they must take
their idea from concept to reality. The quicker they can generating profits the better they are.
For a start up to be successful, there are a multiple tasks that need to be completed at the
proper time and in a correct way. The chances for errors are high, and they tend to get bigger
as the entrepreneur employ more employees. Every manufacturing business, whatever the
size may be, faces a lot of pressures to lower the costs and minimise the defects in the
product. Six Sigma is a production philosophy that uses data, processes, and tools to nearly
put an end to the defects and increase the performance so that it is close to perfection or
excellence.
Mainly, attaining Six Sigma means that not more than 3.4 defects occur per one million
opportunities to create an allowable output. Six sigma is the statistical measure that describes
that defect rate. Hence, Six Sigma six standard makes a reference to the deviations between
the mean of a process and the specification for whatever output is being measured.
Specifications are set by customers.
In six sigma, the process is dependent on the following factors:

1. Define: Identifying and pinpointing the areas where unevenness could occur.
2. Measure: Develop various data metrics which must add the value-added and non-
value-added steps in the work. Customers would not mind paying for processes that
indeed add value.
3. Analyse: Making use of data and other tools in order to identify the unevenness as
well its causes.
4. Improve: Make the work process error free by the utilisation of technology.
5. Control: Controlling the new process in order to make sure that there is no creation of
unevenness again.

The aim of the six sigma is to analyse and focus on the process so that everything starting
from the product development, production to sales and service goes well in every sense and
the actions that do not create value are removed from the process and actions which create
values continuous as they would be demanded by the customer. In order to implement Six
Sigma effectively in company, every employee should opt for Six Sigma Training, which is
designed to establish Six Sigma as a part of the organization's culture. Including this, an
employee should be elected and trained as a Six Sigma Black Belt. A Black Belt holder can
guide the project teams. He is expert in using the analytical tools which includes the software
that are customized to make improvements in the organization.