Data Mining for Six Sigma Belts – ESSC-D develops training concept for Green and Black Belts

Digitization is creating a new, unprecedented availability of data. This means that more data, both structured and unstructured, is available from an increasing number of sources of varying quality. This is changing the approach to data-supported problem solving and process improvement and therefore also Six Sigma. In the past, the focus was on the project-related collection of the right data

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AI in production – at the ESSC-D, experts discussed with participants in the online lecture series

“Artificial intelligence in production – method overview, real applications and outlook” – Franziska Schäfer and Jupiter Bakakeu from the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Chair of Manufacturing Automation and Production Systems (FAPS), spoke on this topic in an online lecture by the European Six Sigma Club on March 12. More than 50 listeners learned about the jungle of buzzwords surrounding artificial intelligence

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10th anniversary: The winners of the German Six Sigma Award 2020

The European Six Sigma Club Germany (ESSC-D) has been awarding prizes for scientific work dealing with the application of the Six Sigma methodology for 10 years. Every year, it looks for the best work on the further development of the Six Sigma methodology in companies and at German-speaking universities and colleges. In 2020, the gold award goes to Philipp Müller

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New board at the European Six Sigma Club

The annual general meeting of the European Six Sigma Club (ESSC-D) took place as an online event for the first time this year. At the beginning of July, Björn Noreik (BNB Quality Statistics and Training) was elected as a new member of the board. Dieter Szemkus, the long-standing Chairman of the Board, who had held this position since the association

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The winners of the German Six Sigma Award 2019 have been announced

The European Six Sigma Club Deutschland e.V. (ESSC-D) presents the four winners of the 2019 competition. Every year, it honors scientific work that deals with the application of the Six Sigma methodology. To this end, it looks for the best work on the further development of the Six Sigma methodology at German-speaking universities and colleges. The Gold Award 2019 goes

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The digital European Six Sigma Club

The new board of the European Six Sigma Club (ESSC) is focusing on digitalization within the club. In doing so, it is following the trend that digitalization efforts are being accelerated by the pandemic in many business areas of the economy. Interest groups such as the ESSC thrive to a large extent on lively exchange, but meetings in person are

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Be a little faster – How S³ SPEED significantly accelerates Six Sigma process optimizations

“Be a little faster – How S³ SPEED significantly accelerates Six Sigma process optimizations” October 2020 It is standard practice for task forces to be used for urgent and complex problems. Unfortunately, it is not (always) the case that systematic work is carried out within the task forces. To counteract this, the quality management team at Festo Microtechnology AG decided

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A head start through selected knowledge – How Smart Knowledge Picking supports improvement projects

“Advantage through selected knowledge – How smart knowledge picking supports improvement projects” October 2020 Digitalization and connectivity make knowledge accessible to everyone today. Smart knowledge picking significantly improves the use of knowledge in organizations in a VUCA environment. It is a competence that supports the intelligent, targeted selection and provision of knowledge. The Smart Knowledge Picking approach can be applied

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