Lean Six Sigma Glossary

There are several definitions and articles for the terms used in Lean Six Sigma over internet. But for the reader sometimes it becomes very difficult to understand the difficult meaning of these terms. So for the ease of the readers, we have compiled the Lean Six Sigma Glossary at one place.

A – D

Alternate Hypothesis

Analysis of variance (ANOVA)

Attribute Data

Bottleneck

Business CTQs

Continuous data

Continuous Improvement

Control Charts

Control Plan

Cost-Benefit Analysis

Cost of Poor Quality (COPQ)

Cross Training

CTQ (Critical to Quality)

Customer in Lean Six Sigma

Customer Requirements

Cycle Time

Dashboard

Data Analysis

Data collection

Deployment Map

DMAIC

DMADV

Defect

Defective

Defects Per Unit (DPU)

Defects Per Million Opportunities (DPMO)

Bias

E – H

Failure Modes And Effects Analysis (FMEA)

I – L

Linearity

M – P

Opportunities for error

Principles of lean

Mean

Median

Mode

Project Charter

Process Capability

Q – T

Quality Function Deployment (QFD)

SMART

SIPOC

Standard Deviation

Stability

System FMEA

Range

Repeatability

Reproducibility

U – X

VOC – Voice of Customers

Variance

Y – Z

Z Score