Comments on: Lean or Six Sigma? https://6sigma.com/lean-or-six-sigma/ Six Sigma Certification and Training Fri, 28 Feb 2025 07:31:46 +0000 hourly 1 By: Dave Welch https://6sigma.com/lean-or-six-sigma/#comment-25352 Thu, 22 Jul 2010 08:02:05 +0000 https://opexlearning.com/resources/?p=2822#comment-25352 Having worked in this field for 25 years, I see this very clearly and simply.

Lean is Global; Six Sigma is Local.

Six Sigma is concerned with individual processes and is a development of Juran and Deming Quality Improvement Activities.

Lean is concerned with the Total Result, i.e. Overall Cycle Times; Global Inventory Deployment; Flexibility, Agility and Responsiveness, etc.

Lean Six Sigma is a Marketing Concept to try to make Six Sigma seem more powerful/acceptable.

Each suffers from a little “Navel-gazing” by assuming that faster, cheaper and flexible will meet most Customer Requirements.

Fortunately we now have the technology to better focus our efforts. It is Enterprise Feedback Management (EFM), which delivers real customer needs.

Listen and Learn.

]]> By: Calvin https://6sigma.com/lean-or-six-sigma/#comment-25351 Wed, 07 Jul 2010 12:39:13 +0000 https://opexlearning.com/resources/?p=2822#comment-25351 I agree. Six sigma and LEAN are different.
Six sigma is focus on quality improvement. which are the defect reduction and process stabilize.
LEAN concepts is more on the wastage reduction or saying cost/time reduction but not the quality.
Therefore, many company and manufacturing are go for the LEAN six sigma nowadays

]]> By: D. Dold https://6sigma.com/lean-or-six-sigma/#comment-25350 Tue, 06 Jul 2010 13:31:11 +0000 https://opexlearning.com/resources/?p=2822#comment-25350 Good article
I support your statement: “both”.
Please find a direct comparison of both approaches DMAIC vs. PDCA.

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