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Have you ever tried to change your life with a diet or exercise program, only to backslide and lose all the positive changes you made? It's easy to lose sight of the ultimate goal--improved health and fitness--after reaching your goal weight and fitness

Two key methodologies for improving operations in the manufacturing world are lean manufacturing and Six Sigma. Both are designed to reduce variation, yet each takes a different track.

Six Sigma teams may be tempted to consider their work done once they have improved their processes during the Improve phase.

If you were an engineer charged with the health of a dam, would you fix a leak by pressing a cork into the crack? Would you consider such a solution permanent? When a Six Sigma team imposes control measures on a process it has improved, it does so with