Column: Frontiers of Quality: Bottom-Line Success With Six Sigma
Column: Frontiers of Quality: Bottom-Line Success With Six Sigma
Define key process output variables and their effects on the cost of poor quality
- Publication:
- Quality Progress
- Date:
- May 2001
- Issue:
- Volume 34 Issue 5
- Pages:
- pp. 101-104
- Author(s):
- Breyfogle III, Forrest W., Meadows, Becki
- Organization(s):
- Smarter Solutions Inc.,
Abstract
Companies with profitable Six Sigma strategies are successful because they maintain effective infrastructures for selecting, supporting and executing projects. This article focuses on defining the project key process output variables (KPOVs): given to counting defects, metrics and the cost of poor quality (COPQ), otherwise known as the cost of doing nothing (CODN).
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