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Abhijeet S
The entire genesis and history of Six Sigma can be explained with the chronology of events that are given as follows:
YEAR EVENT
1777-1855 Introduction of the concept of normal curve by Carl Federick Gauss
1920 Use of the word ‘sigma’ as symbol by mathematicians
1980’s 1980's engineers in Motorola Inc in the USA used 'Six Sigma' as an informal name for an in-house initiative for reducing defects in production processes
1991 Allied Signal, (a large avionics company which merged with Honeywell in 1999), adopted the Six Sigma methods, and claimed significant improvements and cost savings within six months
1995 General Electrics introduced the concept of six sigma in their company.
1998 1998 General Electric claimed that Six Sigma had generated over three-quarters of a billion dollars of cost savings.
2000 Six Sigma was effectively established as an industry in its own right, involving the training, consultancy and implementation of Six Sigma methodology in all sorts of organizations around the world.
That is to say, in a little over ten years, Six Sigma quickly became not only a hugely popular methodology used by many corporations for quality and process improvement, Six Sigma also became the subject of many and various training and consultancy products and services around which developed very many Six Sigma support organizations.
YEAR EVENT
1777-1855 Introduction of the concept of normal curve by Carl Federick Gauss
1920 Use of the word ‘sigma’ as symbol by mathematicians
1980’s 1980's engineers in Motorola Inc in the USA used 'Six Sigma' as an informal name for an in-house initiative for reducing defects in production processes
1991 Allied Signal, (a large avionics company which merged with Honeywell in 1999), adopted the Six Sigma methods, and claimed significant improvements and cost savings within six months
1995 General Electrics introduced the concept of six sigma in their company.
1998 1998 General Electric claimed that Six Sigma had generated over three-quarters of a billion dollars of cost savings.
2000 Six Sigma was effectively established as an industry in its own right, involving the training, consultancy and implementation of Six Sigma methodology in all sorts of organizations around the world.
That is to say, in a little over ten years, Six Sigma quickly became not only a hugely popular methodology used by many corporations for quality and process improvement, Six Sigma also became the subject of many and various training and consultancy products and services around which developed very many Six Sigma support organizations.
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