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
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
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
“Six Sigma Award” February 2021 Published in the Rhein-Zeitung, Koblenz, business supplement
“Koblenz University of Applied Sciences twice successful at the German Six Sigma Award – Scientific papers deal with process optimization” January 2021 Published in the Rhein-Zeitung, Koblenz. Full article also available at https://www.hs-koblenz.de/…/hochschule-koblenz-beim-deutschen-six-sigma-preis-zweifach-erfolgreich
“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
“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
Rhein-Zeitung, Koblenz: “Six Sigma Bronze Award goes to Koblenz students – collaboration with the ZF Group in Neuwied” September 2020
“Six Sigma 4.0 – How is Six Sigma changing through digitalization and AI?” April 2020 Over twenty years old and not a bit outdated: the modular Six Sigma method is in principle ideally suited for use in Industry 4.0, but needs to be taken a step further. Six Sigma experts need additional knowledge in the area of agile methods and
“Roadmap to the future – Six Sigma taken further for business excellence” February 2020 To ensure that companies continue to generate competitive advantages in an increasingly complex environment, Six Sigma and business excellence must continue to evolve. The European Six Sigma Club Deutschland e. V. has identified the most important fields of action and their interrelationships and summarized them in
