Lean Six Sigma is used by businesses the world over as a means to improve quality and efficiency. Its impact on business cannot be overstated with everyone from Amazon to Vodafone adopting the principles.

What started in the manufacturing industry has since swept through the service, tech and financial sectors. It’s not just for corporate business either: governments and other public organisations have used Lean Six Sigma with enormous success. It’s even been used to control diabetes!

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It is though, somewhat surprising (although not illogical) news to learn that Lean Six Sigma has been used by US crime labs, to streamline and improve their processes.

Lack of Efficiency is a Crime

Last year, Monroe County Crime Lab in New York State was struggling with certain issues; it was:

• Unable to deal with its huge backlog of cases
• Not able to get the work done on each case fast enough
• Producing low quality reports

Something needed to be done and so with those issues at the forefront, from August to September 2012 the crime lab began testing the adoption of Lean Six Sigma principles in regard to its workflow.

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Posted by Andy Trainer in Lean Six Sigma, News on April 19th, 2013| 1 Comment »

We recently wrote about an American man who used Six Sigma to control his diabetes. It went to show that Six Sigma is gradually being recognised as a system that can be used beyond the workplace and especially for more than just manufacturing.

Six Sigma is all about improving the quality of processes and thereby the end result. Now if you’ve ever burnt your dinner or tried out a new recipe that has not quite ended up how you expected, you’ll know that cooking is an area in which quality can always be improved!

In this post then, we’re going to look at one of the main tenets of Six Sigma: the DMAIC method and see how it could be applied to kitchen to show how useful it is as process and demonstrate how it works.

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DMAIC in the Kitchen

So let’s say you’ve got a classic go-to meal that you just love cooking; I’ll use my own example of chilli con carne.

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Posted by Andy Trainer in Lean Six Sigma, News on February 14th, 2013| No Comments »