Lean Six Sigma Glossary

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A-C | D-F | G-O | P-R | S-Z

A – C

A3

Affinity Chart
(aka Affinity Diagram)

Alternative Path

Alternate Hypothesis

Analyze

Andon

ANOVA

Assumption Busting

Attribute Data

Baseline Measures

Black Belt

Box Plot

Brainstorming

Business Case

Cause and Effect Diagram

Central Tendency

Charter

Checksheet

Chi-Square Test

Master Black Belt

Cockpit Chart

Common Cause

Comparative Analysis

Contingent Actions

Continuous Data

Continuous Improvement

Control

Control Chart

Cost/Benefit Analysis

Cost of Poor Quality (COPQ)

Criteria Matrix

Correlation Coefficient

Customer

Customer Focus

Customer Requirements

Cycle Time

D – F

Dashboard

Data Analysis

Data Collection Plan

Defect

Defect Opportunity

Defective

Define

Deployment Map

Discrete Data

Dispersion

DMAIC

DMADV

Documentation

Downstream

Defects per Million Opportunities (DPMO)

Defects per Opportunity (DPO)

Effectiveness

Efficiency

External Failure

Facilitator

Failure Modes & Effects Analysis (FMEA)

Focus Groups

Force Field Analysis

G – O

Goal Statement

Green Belt

Handoff

Histogram

Hypothesis Statement

Improve

Input

Input Measures

Institutionalization

Internal Failure

Kaizen Event

Kanban

Kano Model

Line Balancing

Management By Fact

Measure

Measurement Selection Matrix

Moment of Truth

Multi-Voting

Non-Value Adding Activities

Operational Definition

Output

Output Measures

P-R

Pareto Chart

Pareto Principle

PDCA/PDSA

Pilot

Poka-yoke

Preliminary Plan

Preventive Action

Problem Statement

Process

Process Analysis

Process Capability

Process Capability Indicators

Process Improvement

Process Management

Process Map

Process Measures

Process Redesign
& Reengineering

Proportion Defective

Pull

Push

Quality

Repeatability

Reproducibility

Response Plan

Rework Loop

Risk Management

Rolled Throughput Yield (RTY)

Root Cause Hypothesis (RCH)

S – Z

5S

Sampling

Sampling Bias

Scatter Plot

Scope

SIPOC

Six Sigma

Spaghetti Chart

Statistical Process Control (SPC)

Special Cause

Stakeholder

Standard Deviation

Stratification

Subject Matter Expert

Supplier

Survey

Takt Time

Tree Diagram

Time Analysis

To-Be Maps

Upstream

Value Adding Activities

Value Enabling Activities

Variation

VOC Translation Matrix

Voice of the Customer (VOC)

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