Six Sigma and Your LIMS System
A production facility running at a Six Sigma level is close to perfection, meaning that only 3.4 defects per million opportunities or units will be recorded. Many processes act on lower sigma levels; a 5 sigma level would result in approx 230 defects per million opportunities. This doesn’t sound great, but it is still a relatively low number in regards to defect ratios. Thinking of it as on-time deliveries for your daily newspaper, 5 sigma translates to the newspaper being late only once every twelve years!
The Six Sigma improvement process involves five steps, identified by the acronym DMAIC. DMAIC stands for Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve and Control. It takes a project management approach where each of these steps or phases finalizes before you can continue with the next. Define creates the business case on which the project will concentrate. In the Measure step, the data needed to make choices for the improvement are defined and gathered. In the Analyze step, the data are studied and improvements are defined which are implemented in the Improve phase. The Control phase will measure the consistency of the improvements over time.
LIMS and Six Sigma
Now how can your LIMS implementation leverage Six Sigma, and which of the Six Sigma steps can be helpful?…Read the complete article.
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