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Cummins Celebrates 10 Years of Six Sigma and Saving $3 Billion

18,000 projects provide $750 million in savings to customers.

Tue, 04/27/2010 - 09:06
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Cummins is celebrating 10 years of Six Sigma and $3 billion in annualized savings by recognizing the best work from among the nearly 4,000 projects completed worldwide in 2009.

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The top health and safety, and customer-focused Six Sigma projects will be displayed May 11 in an expo on the ground floor of the company’s engine plant in Columbus, Indiana. The best projects from across Cummins—winners of the chairman’s Six Sigma Quality Award—will be on display also on May 11 in a virtual expo. Some of those projects can be accessed on the Cummins web site.

These projects demonstrate that as Cummins enters its second decade of Six Sigma, the tools remain a vital part of how the company does business. In fact, Six Sigma is more important than ever as it requires employees in upper management to be Green Belt-certified in order to make an advance or lateral career move.

Consider the effect of the projects being recognized at the physical expo:

• The health and safety projects, which are being recognized with the President’s Safety Best Practice Award, are responsible for helping Cummins reduce injuries and make ergonomic improvements to equipment and processes.

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