Monday, October 30, 2006

Black Belt... Karate Chops? ... More like mental block

So you want to know what I do ... you can't handle it ... you can't handle what I do ... because I'm a six sigma black belt, in training. Why you can't handle it? Well becuase I'm only in day one of training and there is a good chance that I will die of exessive lecturing and lack of interest. Well at least I only have 19 more days to go. So what is it that I will be doing for the next year and a half. Basically put ... reducing the number of manufacturing defects. If we produce 1,000,000 plastic pellets, my job is to ensure we only have 4 defects out of all those 1,000,000 pellets. No karate, just lots of statistics and project management. If you need more info ... check the below book out written by our corporate six sigma champion Don Linsenmann.