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Design for Six Sigma (DFSS) is a time-tested methodology that helps organizations identify the changing needs of customers and businesses and design new product/service solutions through a strategic approach. BMGI Lean Six Sigma solutions help organizations improve operational excellence by implementing DFSS concepts to foresee and eliminate potential defects at the initial stages of the design process; it results in a flawless process design that improves customer satisfaction and growth potential.
Design for Six Sigma (DFSS), a systematic methodology used to improve products, processes, and services, is a proactive approach aimed at fostering quality at the initial stages rather than correcting it at the advanced stages of inspection. DFSS approach employs a number of tools and techniques like Voice of the Customer (VOC), Quality Function Deployment (QFD), Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA), Design of Experiments (DOE), Process Mapping, Benchmarking, Statistical Process Control (SPC), Pareto Analysis, etc.
Lean Six Sigma's objective is to improve employee/ company performance by minimizing the waste of resources and eliminating process/product defects. Application of Design for Six Sigma in meeting Lean Six Sigma objectives involves five critical phases- define, measure, analyze, design, and verify. Design for Six Sigma solutions, created to improve operational excellence through Lean management, deliver a number of benefits like improved customer satisfaction, reduced variation, and defects, cost reduction, improved efficiency, support for innovation to develop a class-apart product, evidence-based decision making, reduced time-to-market, risk mitigation, continuous improvement, etc.
With operations in 15 countries, Ruukki is Europe’s leading supplier of metal-based solutions to the construction and engineering industry. Staying ahead of its competitors by incorporating innovative solutions to meet the changing needs of customers, while increasing operational efficiency was the core issue that BMGI India succeeded in managing successfully by introducing Lean and Six Sigma methodologies across all the operations of Ruukki. The strategic solutions implementation helped Ruukki to save over €16 million in operating costs and €100 million through reduced inventories and operational excellence.
