Without taking too much time away from the debate watch, can you describe what Lean Sigma Six is?
Wow...first off, they’re really two related things.
Lean is a production system pioneered by Toyota. It involves scrubbing your processes from the ground up to eliminate waste in the form of overproduction, overprocessing, transportation, etc.
It’s very involved to implement, but ultimately really empowering to shop floor people. It involved close scrutiny of processes to remove non-value added activities and a strong focus on continuous improvement.
Sorry, I know this sound very generic. It’s basically a tool kit involving things like “5S” cleanup/standardization, “Kaizen” events to map and improve processes and many other proven ways to eliminate waste.
It’s ultimate point is to focus the organization only - to the extent possible - on activities that bring value to the customer.
If you’re in a production environment, it’s well worth looking into. It’s implementation can be a real struggle...but the payoffs are enormous.
Hope this helps.
Hank