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The History of Six Sigma Versus Lean Engineering
In the 1980s and 1990s, Six Sigma quality was, to put it succinctly, a big deal. There was concern in the US that companies needed to reach Japanese levels of quality to compete with Japan (ironically achieved by the advice of industrial engineering pioneers like Deming and Juran who were ignored in the US for years). Since the Great Recession started and arguably never ended, Lean has grown in ...