Six Sigma

About MVT^®

Advantages of MVT^®
Beyond Six Sigma
MVT^® vs. Six Sigma

Breakthrough
Business Results
with MVT^®

Beyond Six Sigma

Many of the top managers that we interact with are "underwhelmed" with their Six Sigma results.

QualPro feels the major reasons are:

Process improvement competence cannot be developed in only a few weeks or even a few months. Six Sigma black-belt process-improvement novices get the low-hanging fruit, but they won't be able to take the company to a whole new level of performance. Without years of experience under the guidance of an expert, they will not develop the needed competence. Just as learning to use a hammer and saw does not make a carpenter, learning to create flow charts and control charts or perform T-tests and F-tests does not make a process-improvement expert.
Internal training is performed by Six Sigma black belts who usually have been exposed to four-to-five weeks of class room training and a practice project. If any guidance is provided to newly trained persons attempting projects, it is provided by these process improvement novices.
There is no assurance of a high success rate. The four-step Six Sigma methodology lays out a very loosely structured path. Six Sigma black belts are taught a wide variety of statistical tools and are given great latitude in deciding when to use each tool. This loosely organized methodology and the limited training experience provided combine to create a very questionable success rate.
The tools used in Six Sigma are not powerful. A look at the American Society for Quality (ASQ) Six Sigma black belt curriculum reveals that the topics taught are simple statistical methods and statistical process-control techniques. QualPro's experience indicates that we can expect to achieve about 10% of the potential process improvement with Six Sigma methods. QualPro's proprietary Multivariable Testing (MVT^®) system uses more complex mathematics than is used in a Polaris Missile. The complete QualPro 12-Step Process combined with the MVT^® solution will capture the 90% of process improvement missed by most Six Sigma efforts.
A tremendous upfront outlay of resources is required for a Six Sigma effort. In a large organization, thousands of people are trained, tens of thousands of hours of organizational time and energy absorbed, and millions of dollars of direct and indirect costs are incurred. MVT^® by QualPro is focused to deliver quick, large scale successes at a fraction of the cost.
With the organizational pressure on managers to do Six Sigma comes a tendency to do something and activity often is expended on projects with low potential.

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Since 1982, QualPro has used Multivariable Testing (MVT®) with 1000+ companies to test 100,000+ improvement ideas. MVT® tests between 20 and 40 ideas simultaneously, accurately predicting the bottom-line impact of potential process changes in as short as 12 weeks. Take existing process initiatives, like Six Sigma, to a whole new level. All process improvement tools and approaches (TQM, DOE, Six Sigma, Re-Engineering, SPC) can be enhanced through the use of Multivariable Testing® by QualPro.