Seagate Technology Is A New Product Quality Based On Lean Six Sigma Improvement Projects

With international economic keeping down and the competition in hard disc industry become more and more hotly. Seagate Technology as the hard disc industry leader is facing more and more pressures.Time to market and improve production quality is the most important criteria for company to improve its production and gain. Lean Manufacture and Six Sigma is the way to approach that two target. In order to reduce cost, speed up producing and provide high quality products and services to customer, more and more managers are interested in how to combine the "efficiency of Lean Manufacture" and the "Quality improvement from Six Sigma" - Lean Six Sigma.Here I will first study the origin and some basic theoretical of the Lean Six Sigma methods, and then analyzed the characteristic of Lean Six Sigma and how to combine it with TQM and ISO9000 quality manage system which are used in most of the electronics manufacturing company. Then work out a Lean Six Sigma quality management model for Seagate Technology. Finally, using the latest new product Wyatt program's quality management project as the example to do the analysis. In order to checkout the effect for Lean Six Sigma and optimize Seagate Technology's project quality management system. Then help Seagate Technology get continue improvement - include avoid low efficiency, approach worldwide class manufacturing level, speed up time to market project and etc to help improve company management efficiency and increase company's profit.