{"id":27508,"date":"2021-12-23T07:09:49","date_gmt":"2021-12-23T06:09:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.testify.io\/glossar\/six-sigma\/"},"modified":"2026-09-09T19:37:39","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T17:37:39","slug":"six-sigma","status":"publish","type":"glossary","link":"https:\/\/www.testify.io\/en\/glossar\/six-sigma\/","title":{"rendered":"Six Sigma"},"content":{"rendered":"<nav aria-label=\"breadcrumbs\" class=\"rank-math-breadcrumb\"><p><span class=\"last\">Startseite<\/span><\/p><\/nav>\n<h1 data-renderer-start-pos=\"43167\"><strong>What is Six Sigma?<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p data-renderer-start-pos=\"43167\"><strong>Six Sigma<\/strong> is a management system for process optimization, a statistical quality objective and at the same time a methodology in quality management and includes the description, measurement, analysis, improvement and monitoring of business processes using statistical means. ISO 13053, the first standard for Six Sigma, was published in 2011 and describes a kind of toolbox: <\/p>\n<ul class=\"ak-ul\" data-indent-level=\"1\">\n<li>\n<p data-renderer-start-pos=\"43539\"><strong data-renderer-mark=\"true\">Customer tools: <\/strong><br \/>\nKano model, requirements analysis, House of Qualirty, loss function according to Taguchi Gen&#8217;ichi, customer interviews and questionnaires, conjoint analysis<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p data-renderer-start-pos=\"43703\"><strong data-renderer-mark=\"true\">Project tools<\/strong><br \/>\nNetwork planning technique, project description, CTQ analysis, tree diagram, cost-benefit analysis, control charts<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p data-renderer-start-pos=\"43824\"><strong data-renderer-mark=\"true\">Lean tools<\/strong><br \/>\nStandardization, bottleneck and material flow analysis, value creation and waste analysis, supply chain matrix, setup time analysis, red tag analysis, etc.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p data-renderer-start-pos=\"44009\"><strong data-renderer-mark=\"true\">Management tools<\/strong><br \/>\nDecision tree, affinity diagram, relationship diagram, matrix diagram and matrix data analysis<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p data-renderer-start-pos=\"44129\"><strong data-renderer-mark=\"true\">Design tools<\/strong><br \/>\nParameter design, Quality Function Deployment (QFD), TRIZ, FMEA\/VMEA, fault tree analysis, tolerance analysis<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p data-renderer-start-pos=\"44253\"><strong data-renderer-mark=\"true\">Graphic tools<\/strong><br \/>\nTest forms and measurement plan, histogram, Pareto diagram, cause-and-effect diagram, relation diagram, control charts<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p data-renderer-start-pos=\"44387\"><strong data-renderer-mark=\"true\">Statistical tools<\/strong><br \/>\nStatistical design of experiments (DoE), process capability analysis, regression analysis, statistical test procedures (F-test, ANOVA), measurement system analysis (Gage R&#038;R), probability network<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related links:<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"5iL4nvkOgx\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.testify.io\/en\/solutions\/quality-control\/\">Qualit\u00e4tskontrolle<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"\u201cQualit\u00e4tskontrolle\u201d \u2014 Testify\" src=\"https:\/\/www.testify.io\/en\/solutions\/quality-control\/embed\/#?secret=ea9BRwtPux#?secret=5iL4nvkOgx\" data-secret=\"5iL4nvkOgx\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is Six Sigma? Six Sigma is a management system for process optimization, a statistical quality objective and at the same time a methodology in quality management and includes the description, measurement, analysis, improvement and monitoring of business processes using statistical means. ISO 13053, the first standard for Six Sigma, was published in 2011 and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-27508","glossary","type-glossary","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.testify.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/glossary\/27508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.testify.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/glossary"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.testify.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/glossary"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.testify.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.testify.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}