Development and Validation of an Instrument for Six Sigma Implementation in Small and Medium Sized Enterprises

Author

Deshmukh, S.V. ; Lakhe, R.R.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Mech. Eng., B.D. Coll. of Eng., Sewagram, India

fYear

2009

fDate

16-18 Dec. 2009

Firstpage

790

Lastpage

797

Abstract

This paper presents a study aimed at developing and validation of an instrument for Six Sigma Implementation in Small and Medium Sized Enterprises (SMEs) of India. It provides amalgamation of the quality literature by identifying 12 critical factors (areas) of Six Sigma. The Instrument consisting 42 items was design after extinctive literature review. The SMEs can used these measures individually or perform to produce a outline of organization-wide Six Sigma practices. The developed instrument was found to be reliable and valid to achieve objectives of this study. These measures can be used to assess the status of Six Sigma, in order to imply further development.

Keywords

organisational aspects; six sigma (quality); small-to-medium enterprises; SME; amalgamation; organization-wide Six Sigma practices; six sigma implementation; small and medium sized enterprises; Companies; Educational institutions; Government; Instruments; Mechanical engineering; Quality function deployment; Quality management; Robustness; Six sigma; Velocity measurement;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Emerging Trends in Engineering and Technology (ICETET), 2009 2nd International Conference on

Conference_Location

Nagpur

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-5250-7

Electronic_ISBN

978-0-7695-3884-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICETET.2009.79

Filename

5395029