I bought a book on Lean Six Sigma from Shenzhen Bookstore.
The book combines the two most important improvement trends of our time: making work better (using Six Sigma) and making work faster (using Lean principles).
The idea is to lean the things first, then improve it better! It's a good book and make the concept easy to understand and you can try to apply the tools in your daily work.
You can find this book in bookstore I think, author is Michael L George. You can find the book in bookstore.
China Machine Press translated it into Chinese and I found some of the translations really hard to understand. For example: delivery lead time tanslated as 提前期, I think 交货期 is more easier to be understood.
Six Sigma is a data-driven framework designed by Motorola to make breakthrough, rather than incremental, quality improvements in an organization's value-adding processes while simultaneously saving money or increasing revenues. This represnts the goal of having a defect occur in a process only 0.00034 percent of the time, or 3.4 times out of every million measurement opportunities - a goal beyond the reach of the typical organization today. Six Sigma is also ment to embody a philosophy or culture in which everyone from CEO to frontline service employee is involved in improving quality and uses a project management approach. Lean operations ia a phrase coined in the United States but is based on the Toyata Production System ( TPS) and a philosophy of continuous improvement. The TPS follows a philosophy of continuous learning and keeping things simple. An organization should make the est use of its time, people and physical assests to optimize productivity. Organizations also work to connect each value-added step in a process, in the best sequence and most effective way possible without imterruption.