In an article this week in one of the US’ leading manufacturing journals, Industry Week, David Cochran, Vice President of Operations, QualPro, launches a damning attack on Six Sigma, claiming it is expensive, slow, not hands-on, complicated, disruptive, inflexible, demanding, and not suited for performance breakthroughs.
He makes the point that with the current state of the US$ in international exchanges, US-based global companies are doing very well, and can afford to allow their quality improvement processes to slip.
Well, what do you think?