what is six sigma certification?
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Six Sigma certification usually involves both an education and a project portion.  There are two main levels for which certifications are normally given:  Green Belt and Black Belt.  I typical Green Belt certification involves 2 full weeks of education, whereas Black Belt certification normally involves 4 or more full weeks.  Both usually require a project, but a Black Belt project will be more involved and will ususally last 4-6 months.    \n\nThe curriculum usually involves process improvement and problem solving tools to be used in the DMAIC approach.  DMAIC consists of Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, and Control.  \n\nIn the define stage, you learn to properly state the problem at hand, form an effective cross-functional team to be involved in the project, and state a goal in terms useful to the process owner and to senior management (dollars saved, define the scope of the project, and begin to map the process at hand.\n\nIn the measure stage, you check the measurement systems that are involved to ensure that they will produce reliable data, and you establish a baseline to which to compare the improvments.\n\nIn analyze, you gather and select possible solutions, collect and analyze data to support the solution.\n\nIn improve, you implement the solutions generated from the analyze phase.\n\nIn control, you create a plan to ensure that the improvments are sustained and you transfer ownership of these improvments to the process owners to allow for work on another project.\n\nThere are some organizations beginning to offer master black belt certification, which normally requires at least 3 projects completed and sometimes up to ten, and more education, possible DFSS (design for six sigma) and courses to help with training black belts.  Sometimes actually experience training or mentoring black belts is required.
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You are certifying the correctness of the document
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NACE : NAtional Association of Corrosion Engineers\n\nThey certify a material, (initially for piping requirements), suitable for corrosive, sour service applications.\n\nTill recently NACE mainly confirmed if a material is resistant to corrosion due to Hydrogren Sulphide. Very recently, according to ISO standards, they have inlcuded the effect of Chlorine on the material.
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hi,\n     In hyderabad newlly started a testing institute called STC \n it provide certification course in software testing and also arrenge 3 interview after the complition of course.\n     after ur course complition u hv to go for online test (60% passing ) for certification.this certificatio is valid in all the companies.\n      i m also join this course .the facaulty is really nice and giving \nrunning notes with their stc notes .its really good.\n      Address is STC technology ,himayetnagar,libatry road ,3 rd  floar ,land mark KFC .
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still ISO 9001 is applicable in education. as far as i know there is no sector specific standard like iso/ts 16949 or any other.
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There are different aspects and tools used with Six Sigma.  It may be a Lean project of a Design for Six Sigma.  Ceck out the link for some good info.
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here are a couple good links.  The iso9001 one is very helpfull... I hope this helps :\n\n\nhttp://www.customerexpressions.com/cex/cexweb.nsf/landing-quasy?openpage&campaign=syqasgoog&kw=quality+assurance+system\n\nhttp://www.iso9001qualityassurance.com/
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Hi. Sigma is a unit of standard deviation. Six sigma is a level of quality control that assures (theoretically) a level control that only allows a very small number of defects. A black belt is someone certified to not only understand this concept, but can assure that processes are in control (or figure out how to get them in control) within Six Sigma.
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Hi,\nBefore i can answer this question, i want to clarify what is your background? if you are asking this question just out of curiosity then the answers given by others are decent enough.\nBut if you are really want to do some six sigma project then you can read next lines..\n\nSix Sigma stands for Six Standard Deviations (Sigma is the Greek letter used to represent standard deviation in statistics) from mean. Six Sigma methodology provides the techniques and tools to improve the capability and reduce the defects in any process. \n\nIt was started in Motorola, in its manufacturing division,  where millions of parts are made using the same process repeatedly. Eventually Six Sigma evolved and applied to other non manufacturing processes. Today you can apply Six Sigma to many fields such as Services, Medical and Insurance Procedures, Call Centers.\n\nSix Sigma methodology improves any existing business process by constantly reviewing and re-tuning the process.  To achieve this, Six Sigma uses a methodology known as DMAIC (Define opportunities, Measure performance, Analyze opportunity, Improve performance, Control performance).\n\nSix Sigma methodology can also be used to create a brand new business process from ground up using DFSS (Design For Six Sigma) principles. Six Sigma Strives for perfection. It allows for only 3.4 defects per million opportunities for each product or service transaction. Six Sigma relies heavily on statistical techniques to reduce defects and measure quality. \n\n\nSix Sigma experts (Green Belts and Black Belts) evaluate a business process and determine ways to improve upon the existing process. Six Sigma experts can also design a brand new business process using DFSS (Design For Six Sigma) principles. Typically its easier to define a new process with DFSS principles than refining an existing process to reduce the defects.\n\n\nSix Sigma incorporates the  basic principles and techniques used in Business, Statistics, and Engineering. These three form the core elements of Six Sigma. Six Sigma improves the process performance, decreases variation and maintains consistent quality of the process output. This leads to defect reduction and improvement in profits, product quality and customer satisfaction.\n\nSix Sigma methodology is also used in many Business Process Management initiatives these days. These Business Process Management initiatives are not necessarily related to manufacturing. Many of the BPM's that use Six Sigma in today's world include call centers, customer support, supply chain management and project management.\n\nCustomer requirements, design quality, metrics and measures, employee involvement and continuous improvement are main elements of Six Sigma Process Improvement.\n\nThe three key elements of Six Sigma are: \n \nCustomer Satisfaction\n\nDefining Processes and defining Metrics and Measures for Processes\nUsing and understanding Data and Systems\n\nSetting Goals for Improvement\n\nTeam Building and Involving Employees\nInvolving all employees is very important to Six Sigma. The company must involve all employees. Company must provide opportunities and incentives for employees to focus their talents and ability to satisfy customers. \n\n\n\n\n\nIf you have more queires then you can contact me on abhisheknjain5@gmail.com\ni am doing two projects of six sigma in Mindtree consulting Bangalore , India.\n\nI hope that with my little knowledge i will be helpful to you.
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quality control/quality assurance. basically you inspect the product and the process of making it to ensure it works as well as claimed and that people are doing their jobs properly, without cutting corners.
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Companies such as GE and Motorola of course train and certify their own Six Sigma Black Belts and Master Black Belts but there are private companies that do the training as well. The training requirements are rigorous around statistical analysis and mathematics. It helps to be excellent at Excel and Minitab and have a curious mind. I will attach a good web site to get started and find some private courses. Today, most companies add training for Lean principles into Six Sigma but really they have little intrinsically to do with one another.\n\nEdit:\n\nIn that case, I would add some things below, including 101 things a BB should know\n\nhttp://www.pyzdek.com/101.htm\n\nHow to certify:\n\nhttp://www.pyzdek.com/PDF/2001-03.pdf\n\nAn appraisal form\n\nhttp://www.isixsigma.com/library/content/c030305a.asp\n\nA good practice exam\n\nhttp://www.qualityamerica.com/Exams/Public/Blackbelt/login.ahtml\n\nHit me up if you have more questions \n\n(I am a certified BB in case you had not guessed)
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Here is everything about Mercury Quality Center\n\n\nMercury Quality Center™ provides a web-based system for automated software quality management and testing across a wide range of application environments. \n\nhttp://www.starbase.co.uk/mercury-quality-center.asp\n\nMercury Quality Center™ provides a web-based system for automated software quality testing and management across a wide range of application environments. Dashboard technology gives you the visibility to validate both functionality and automated business processes – and identify bottlenecks in production that stand in the way of business outcomes\n\nhttp://www.mercury.com/us/products/quality-center/\n\nMercury Unveils Mercury Quality Center 9.0\n- Introduces New Capabilities for SAP(R) Application and SOA Testing\n\nhttp://www.prnewstoday.com/release.htm?cat=computer-electronics&dat=20060403&rl=SFM06603042006-1
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I dony know but could it be "to be certified"
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You may mean the ISO (International Standards Organization) tolerance grade, which is not limited to drilling (applies to all dimensions).  The method is an efficient way to express tolerances, and is being used more frequently on CAD drawings these days. (Smaller drills have tighter tolerances; larger drills have looser tolerances).\n\nMachinery's Handbook has the standard (and the ANSI/ASME version too), and is the most useful way to obtain the information.\n\nOtherwise, check the links out below - you can purchase the standard directly from ISO - there is not much free information on the Internet because it is copyrighted.
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A Six Sigma black belt is someone with extensive experience and training in the implementation of Six Sigma at a high level within the organization.
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there's no HIPAA 'certification'... you just need to know the guidelines and observe them.  if you're ever audited they're not gonna look for certification but to make sure you're compliant with all of their rules.
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National Association of Securities Dealers and six sigma is the quality control method developed by GE's legendary ex-CEO, Jack Welch.  I believe the six sigma standard refers to defect rate of one millionth of a percent.  You may want to search the web or wikipedia to confirm...