In Engineering and Construction, Bechtel, on
the Channel Tunnel Rail Link project in the UK, the project team
uncovered a way to save hundreds of job hours on one of the tunneling
jobs. http://www.bechtel.com/sixsigma.htm
In healthcare, North Carolina Baptist
Hospital says, "The Six Sigma process improvement deployment at
North Carolina Baptist Hospital is starting to show the kind of
results that convert skeptics to believers." and "A Six
Sigma process improvement team charged with getting heart attack
patients from the Emergency Department into the cardiac
catheterization lab for treatment faster slashed 41 minutes off the
hospital’s mean time" http://www1.wfubmc.edu/articles/Six+Sigma
Six Sigma-Based Methodology A Motorola/3M
Case Study
http://www.future-fab.com/documents.asp?d_ID=2308
According to the The Institute of Quality
Assurance …
Reference: http://www.iqa.org/publication/c4-1-38.shtml