Operations Management, Financial and Non-Financial Measures of Performance, Improvement Tools – 217

What are the five (5) phases of the Six Sigma DMAIC (Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, and Control) project methodology?

  1. Define customers and their requirements
  2. Measure defects and other items related to quality
  3. Analyze to determine root cause of failures and the sources of variation
  4. Improve through experimentation
  5. Control results using TQM statistical process control tools (e.g. control charts)