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DMAIC versus DMADVIIt is understood that everything in business is a process. Sales people have a list of companies and contacts that they work in a certain fashion to produce a sale, production receives an order and schedules the manufacturing, and the product is built, packaged, shipped and invoiced for the customer. Yet the question remains that when problems arise with the process, though, should they fix it with a DMAIC or DMADV type project? It is important to first look at the DMAIC and DMADV methodologies and talk about how they are alike. DMAIC and DMADV are both:
While DMAIC and DMADV sound very similar and the acronyms even share the first three letters there are significant differences. In fact sharing the first three letters in their names is about where the similarities stop. The differences between DMAIC and DMADV is
The DMAIC methodology should be used instead of the DMADV methodology, when a product or process is in existence at your company but is not meeting customer specification or is not performing adequately.
Occasionally a project is scoped as a DMAIC for incremental process improvement when what it really required was a DMADV methodology improvement. And worse yet perhaps it was a month into the project that management realized this. The key here is not to be discouraged about the work you put into the DMAIC because:
The idea here is to pick yourself up, dust yourself off and re-craft your define piece of the project so you can begin with a fresh look at the project and solutions. Keep in mind that you never know what insights you will have now that you may not have been aware of before. The bottom line is that both DMAIC and DMADVI are highly evolved processes that will allow companies to focus on the core of their production in both cost-saving and time saving ways that will highly increase efficiency. |
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