(Quality Digest: Chico, CA) -- In January 2017 Richard Schonberger, researcher and author of Best Practices in Lean Six Sigma Process Improvement (Wiley, 2009) issued an open letter to Motorola published in ISE magazine asking the company to withdraw Six Sigma as a copyrighted term.
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Six Sigma is a methodology in wide use in process-improvement endeavors. It was copyrighted in 1993 by its developer, Motorola Corp., which renewed the copyright in 2003 and 2013.
The oddity, says Schonberger, is that the term, in published matter, is always capitalized, to the “consternation of writers and editors.”
As Schonberger explains in the letter, the purpose is to “allow the term to be printed as ‘six sigma,’ a common noun for a methodology recognized globally as a decidedly uncommon contribution of Motorola to the vast body of knowledge in quality assurance.”
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Using Six Sigma
Why would anyone in their right mind want to use Six Sigma?
Six Sigma is a destructive scam based on pure farce. It was created by psychologist, Mikel Harry. Harry claimed that all processes drift by +/-1.5 sigma, every 50 measurements, making them wildly out-of-control, and hence unpredictable. A Six Sigma process cannot achieve good quality, no matter where specification limits are set. Harry based his ludicrous claim on the height of a stack of discs! EVERY aspect is as worthless as its laughable foundations.
Dr Wheeler, the world’s leading process statistician, calls Six Sigma “GOOFY”. CBS calls it the most stupid fad of all time.
Of the 58 large companies that announced Six Sigma programs, 91 percent have trailed the S&P 500 since. Six Sigma has helped destroy its once best references GE and Motorola.
Why do people turn their backs on the great men of QUALITY: Professor Deming, Professor Lewis, Professor Ishikawa, Dr Shewhart and Dr Wheeler, for the lunacy of psychologist/salesman Mikel Harry.
Please read my papers exposing the Six Sigma scam:
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/broken-dr-tony-burns/
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/blame-mr-bill-smith-tony-burns/
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/six-sigma-psychology-part-2-tony-burns/
https://www.qualitydigest.com/inside/six-sigma-article/sick-sigma-04180…
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/pillars-six-sigma-stupidity-tony-burns/
https://www.qualitydigest.com/inside/quality-insider-column/six-sigma-p…
https://www.qualitydigest.com/inside/six-sigma-article/predictable-0613…
https://www.qualitydigest.com/inside/six-sigma-article/six-sigma-lesson…
https://www.qualitydigest.com/inside/six-sigma-article/six-sigma-lesson…
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/control-charts-keep-simple-dr-tony-burns/
https://www.qualitydigest.com/inside/six-sigma-article/sick-sigma-041806.html
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