Six Sigma and Design For Six Sigma

(6s & DFSS)

Available Papers from the 1999 ASA

Quality & Productivity Research Conference


Quality & Productivity Conference Main Page    |   Presentation Abstracts    |    An Introduction to Six Sigma
QPRC Workshop A:  "Introduction to Six Sigma Concepts for Statisticians."
    Part 1:    Hill,  William (Workshop Presentation)
    Part 2   is not available on the www. 

QPRC Workshop B:  "Useful Statistical Tools That You Did NOT Learn in Six Sigma Training"
    is not available on the www.

Note:  If you do not see the author/presenter's name, find them in the attendee list and contact them directly.


Presentation Files and Links


Name of Presenter

 Paper

Agrawal, Rekha "Statistics in the Real World:  What I've Learned in My First Two Years in Industry"


Baik, Jaiwook "6 Sigma Activities in Korea"
Beeson, Don "PEZ 1.4:  A General Purpose Software Tool for Designing for Six Sigma"
Bisgaard, Soren
Link to Center for Quality and Productivity Improvement
at U. of Wisconsin -Madison
"Quality Economics"
Boardman, Thomas
Link to Web Page
 "Control Charts for Means with Limits Obtained by Bootstrap Methods"
Bokhodir, Ergashev "An Analytical Approach for Studying EWMA Control Charts"
Box_and_Luceno
Link to Center for Quality and Productivity Improvement
at U. of Wisconsin -Madison
"Six Sigma, Process Drift, Capability Indices, and Feedback Adjustment"
Brey, Marcia "Reliability Analysis for the Brake Hub Isolator"


Cadima,_Paul "Central Composite Response Surface Designs"
Caffrey, S. J._and_Pociatek, B "A Control Chart for an Improvement Metric"
Cawse,_James "Combinatorial Search and Experimental Design Strategies"
Chokshi,_Daksha "Statistical Design Of Experiments Applied To A Rocket Thrust Chamber Brazing Process"
Choudhury,_S. Roy "DFSS on Feasibility of High-Flux Industrial CT Tube"
Choudhury,_S._Roy (Zipped Version) "DFSS on Feasibility of High-Flux Industrial CT Tube"


Dixon, Walter: 
please contact the author directly
Dudding, Katherine "A Technique for Analyzing One Product for Several Customers"


Early and Neagu "ANOVA Models and Data Reduction:  Application to Gage R&R Studies"
Ergashev, Bakhodir "An Analytical Approach for Studying EWMA Control Charts"
Fiallo, Willy "Digital Products Repair & Return Cycle Improvement"
Finn, Gavin
Link to Web Page
"Six Sigma in the Engineering Design Process: Improving the Quality of the Engineering Product"


Gabel, Stanley "Six Sigma at Eastman Kodak Company"
Gau, Kristy "Improve Designs Using Probabilistic Sensitivity Information"
Godfrey, Blanton
Link to Juran Institute Web Page
"Six Sigma Quality: From Strategic Deployment to Bottom Line Results"
Goh, T. N. "Enhancing The "Design" Process In Design Of Experiments"
Gomez, Luis_(A) "Electric Overload Line Balance"
Gomez, Luis_(B) "Variation Reduction in Fabrication Area"


Hahn, Gerald
Web Reference
"The Six Sigma Initiative:  Lessons Learned"
Harrison, Lester "UR Power Supply Analysis for Reliability Predictiction"
Hill, William (Invited Presentation)
Web Reference
"Six Sigma - The AlliedSignal Experience"
Hill, William_(Workshop)
Web Reference
William Hill's Six Sigma Workshop A Materials
Hubele, Norma "A Simple Graphical Hypothesis Testing Procedure for Cpm Goals"
Hunter, J. Stuart 
Link to "Box, Hunter, and Hunter" Information: 
(Web Page A) (Web Page B)
Link to ASA Stuart Hunter Video Information.  Access to Stuart Hunter's 1999 ASA QPRC talk is not available on the www or in the ASA video lecture series, however.


Johnson, George "Utilizing Classical DOE to Enhance a Component Search Strategy"


Kacker, Raghu "Why And When Should One Calibrate A Measurement System"
Keyes, Timothy "On Statistics and the Consumer Credit Life Cycle or Six Sigma Credit"


Lee, Audrey "Using Statistics to Improve Quality and Productivity"
Liggett, Walter "Between Rockwell Hardness And Six Sigma"


McGrath, Richard and Lin, Dennis
Link to Dennis Lin's Web Page
"The Confounding Relationship of Location and Dispersion Effects in Unreplicated Fractional Factorials"
Meeker, William    Web Page 1   Web Page 2  "Accelerated Reliability Testing - Applications and Pitfalls"
Mishkoy, Gheorghe (A) "Stationarity Conditions for a System with Priorities and Orientations"
Mishkoy, Gheorghe (B) "Stationarity Conditions for a System with Priorities and Orientations"
Moreno, Carlos "Improvements Through Process Adjustments"


Rutledge, Jim (A)  "Using the Beta Distribution on Confidence Intervals for Proportions"
Rutledge, Jim (B) "Using the Beta Distribution on Confidence Intervals for Proportions"


Snee, Ron (Zipped Files)
Web Reference
"The Impact Of Six Sigma: Today And In The Future" & "Institutionalizing Six Sigma in Large Corporations: A Leadership Roadmap"
Stanard, Christopher "Six Sigma Special Topics:  Z-Shifts, Statistics, & Non-Standard Data Analysis"
Stanard, Christopher  (Zipped Version) "Six Sigma Special Topics:  Z-Shifts, Statistics, & Non-Standard Data Analysis"
Sener, Bulent: 
please contact the author directly
"Highly Accelerated Reliability Testing and MTBF Prediction Simulation Tools"
Sullo, Pasquale and VanDeven, Mark: 
please contact the author directly
Web  Page
"Optimal Adjustment for Processes with Run-to-Run Variation"
Voelkel, Joseph (Paper)
(note:  may need to download Adobe Acrobate Reader 4.0 for best viewing results.) 
Web Page
"Process Indices for Certain Non-Stable Processes"
Voelkel, Joseph (Slides)
Web Page
"Process Indices for Certain Non-Stable Processes"


Wang, Liping "Fast Probability Integration (FPI) and Its Applications to DFSS"
Whittaker, Bradley "Getting Statistics Off the Shelf:  The Culture Change Challenge"
Willemain, T. and Runger (A)
(Willemain Web Page)
"Statistical Process Control Using Run Sums"
Willemain, T. and Runger (B)
(Willemain Web Page)
"Designing Control Charts Using an Empirical Reference Distribution"
Wu, Ai-Chu (Presentation) "The Power Of Synergy: Using Survival Analysis For Business Forecasting"
Wu, Ai-Chu (Paper) "The Power Of Synergy: Using Survival Analysis For Business Forecasting"
Wunderlin, William  "The Normal Distribution in Six Sigma Projects"

 

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