February 6, 200917 yr FOLLOWING TOPIC PASTED FROM YAHOO GROUPS ORIGINATOR: Kushal Amin DATE: Tue Oct 7, 2008 Hi, We have identified a project in a Publishing house, on Optimizing no. of units to be printed. This would help in reducing inventory &streamline initial investment. We wanted a clarification on if this would be within the purview of a GB project or is it more suited for a Lean project ? Is there any specific criteria that would help us determine this. Kushal AminJapeth Ebenezer GB batch Aug'08Hyderabad _______________ FOLLOWING RESPONSES WERE RECEIVED Greetings This could be a lean project and we have investigated on this on a similar publisher to bring down inventory from 119 days to 40 days with regards T. M.Venkatesan _________________ Dear Kushal, Usually, if the root cause of the problem is NOT known and the solution is NOT known, then it would be a Six Sigma project. Lean on the other hand has well established solutions to handle common issues (say deploy 5S to improve organization). In these cases, why should we use Six Sigma and spend resources to work with facts & data toidentify a solution, if the solution is already known? Lean would be appropriate in these situations. If the process is not well controlled, and there are no well established processes or standards, we could straight away deploy Lean to improve the operations. However, Lean may not be able to attack tough problemsor causes of persistent variation. This would call for a more detailed investigation of the root cause and requires the discipline of Six Sigma. So, Six Sigma may be required after you deploy Lean. In order to avoid the confusion, just call it Lean Six Sigma and use what tools make sense! SJ.
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