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The improvement method is designed to improve application/system utilization rate, increase efficiency of support activities, increase productivity through automation, maintain intellectual property investment, and preserve value of technology.

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The main purposes of using the Six Sigma process are listed below:

  1. To deal with a world of declining product prices
  2. To compete successfully with the best companies in the world
  3. To establish standard language and approaches across functions and across businesses
  4. To develop the next generation of leaders
This approach can be defined as the relentless pursuit of process variation reduction and breakthrough improvements that increase customer satisfaction and impact the bottom-line. Lean can be summarizingly be described as a fundamental approach/instruction to waste removal. Waste was defined at Toyota (TPS) as 'anything other than the minimum amount of equipment, materials, parts, space, and time which are absolutely essential to add value to the product'. The TPS became the dominant production model to emerge from a number of concepts around at the time.

Lean practices can be used in all processes in any type of industry or organization to improve their efficiency. It is applicable to all stages in a supply chain and is thus collectively called the "Lean Enterprise. It is very well-known that a far-reaching performance is achieved by the use of Six Sigma and Lean to reduce waste. This in turn reduces cost, an important factor in determining the survival of an enterprise.

Manufacturing with Lean in mind, has certain features such as reduced lead times of processes, faster delivery, improved quality of end products, reduction in inventory such as the work-in-process (WIP), low customer service activities, core materials, and products at all customer interfaces. This gives room for incorporating changes.

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