Eliminating data massaging, scrubbing, and manipulating

摘要

Jeff Holman, President of Micro-pump, a Lean Six Sigma manufacturing company, captures the challenges of how to best use engineering staff. According to Holman, "I had these two high-powered and highly compensated engineers spending hours scrubbing data and building databases to get the information they needed for their projects." The Six Sigma community puts up with amazing amounts of busy work in order to become data-driven. Evan J. Miller, president and chief executive officer of Hertzler Systems, (and manufacturer of GainSeeker), notes that, "Frequently manufacturing executives define this data collection process as "the every day junk work that we do that we call our jobs." The roots of this situation are deep within Six Sigma itself: Black Belts are brought into training, assigned to a project, and told to go start measuring something. They are rarely IT people, but they are smart, resourceful, and very driven. They go and get some data."