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The six-sigma program for quality improvement and control outlined in Chapter 1 has provided many hardware companies with a method of greatly increasing profits by reducing costs associated with every department in the company, and by product reliability improvements. The program requires that every employee be accountable for understanding and implementing six-sigma. This conflicts with Dr. Deming’s principle that 85% of the quality problems are faults of the system which can be corrected only by management.
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Hubbard, M.R. (2003). Six-Sigma. In: Statistical Quality Control for the Food Industry. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-0149-7_16
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