Six sigma template kit

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What is Six Sigma

What is Six Sigma

First, what it is not. It is not a secret society, a slogan or a cliche. Six Sigma is a highly disciplined process that helps us focus on developing and delivering near-perfect products and services. Why ”Sigma“? The word is a statistical term that measures how far a given process deviates from perfection. The central idea behind Six Sigma is that if you can measure how many “defects” you have in a process, you can systematically figure out how to eliminate them and get as close to “zero defects” as possible. Six Sigma has changed the DNA of GE — it is now the way we work — in everything we do and in every product we design.

Six Sigma is a set of techniques, and tools for process improvement. It was developed by Motorola in 1986. Six Sigma seeks to improve the quality of process outputs by identifying and removing the causes of defects (errors) and minimizing variability in manufacturing and business processes. It uses a set of quality management methods, including statistical methods, and creates a special infrastructure of people within the organization ("Champions", "Black Belts", "Green Belts", "Yellow Belts", etc.) who are experts in the methods.

Each Six Sigma project carried out within an organization follows a defined sequence of steps and has quantified value targets, for example: reduce process cycle time, reduce pollution, reduce costs, increase customer satisfaction, and increase profits.

The term Six Sigma originated from terminology associated with manufacturing, specifically terms associated with statistical modeling of manufacturing processes. The maturity of a manufacturing process can be described by a sigma rating indicating its yield or the percentage of defect-free products it creates. 

A six sigma process is one in which 99.99966% of the products manufactured are statistically expected to be free of defects (3.4 defective parts/million),

Key Concepts of Six Sigma

At its core, Six Sigma revolves around a few key concepts.

Critical to Quality: Attributes most important to the customer

Defect: Failing to deliver what the customer wants

Process Capability: What your process can deliver

Variation: What the customer sees and feels

Stable Operations: Ensuring consistent, predictable processes to improve

what the customer sees and feels

Design for Six Sigma: Designing to meet customer needs and process capability

Why The Service Sector Feels That Six Sigma Is Not For Them

Why The Service Sector Feels That Six Sigma Is Not For Them

The most obvious reason why service companies keep away from Six Sigma is because they perceive it as a manufacturing tool. Service organizations feel that because their companies have a large amount of human work force, there are no measurable defects to be corrected. However, experts say this is not true. A recent survey has shown that service companies that have invested in Six Sigma are all saving millions of dollars for every project. Human resources make up a large part of all service organizations. To conquer this problem, leaders of the industry can be trained in Six Sigma to balance their employment expertise with statistics-based analytical tools.

The fear of metrics is another obstacle that stands in the way of the service sector and Six Sigma. Most people feel that Six Sigma sounds too technical. The importance of metrics is to give an insight into the business working processes. Service based companies need to focus all their attention on developing Six Sigma projects that specialize in their business needs like customer and cash generation. Convincing the service sector about the merits of taking up Six Sigma has proven to be a big challenge. Most service companies still believe that Six Sigma can only benefit the manufacturing industry.

How Six Sigma Can Benefit The Service Industry

Six Sigma goes in to the details of improving customer service, generating business expansion and gaining knowledge about the service sectors business processes. Most service industries revolve around areas of finance, human resources and sales and marketing. Hence, Six Sigma delves deeply into the subject of soft skills. Six Sigma can be applied to a company that provides housekeeping services. Firstly, the companies working processes would need to be understood. Using the DMIAC method or the define-measure-improve-analyze-control method, Six Sigma can definitely implement quality in any industry. As the main aim of this methodology is to reduce defects, the first step would be detecting the particular defect. Secondly, data will be collected to observe how, why and how often these defects occur. Next, the Six Sigma team implements an outstanding employee’s method of working as the normal method for all employees. Finally, new employees are taught the correct techniques. 

Six Sigma is useful in the field of sales and marketing as well. According to Six Sigma data, during sales, too much face time with a customer can prove to be counter-productive. Changing this process can result in an increase in the percentage of sales per product. Other industries that Six Sigma has assisted in the past are the financial service sector, insurance companies, management companies, educational institutions, high-tech companies, state agencies and many more.

IBM announcement : price changes for subscription and support software

Last year we already signaled a price raise for DB2 V8 for z/OS starting at April 1, 2011. Hey, come to think of it, no April Fools' Day joke, this one. Here's another announcement for some Subscription and Support software in order "to bring the price of the Subscription and Support offerings in line with the price of the associated product offerings" : Price changes on several IBM Subscription and Support Software Programs (S&S) (ZA11-1001)("http://www-01.ibm.com/common/ssi/ShowDoc.jsp?docURL=/common/ssi/rep_ca/1/877/ENUSZA11-1001/index.html&breadCrum=DET001PT022&url=buttonpressed=DET002PT005&specific_index=DET001PEF502&DET015PGL002=DET001PEF011&submit.x=7&submit.y=8&lang=en_US")

The products with their respective S&S are :

IBM WebSphere Portal Enable for z/OS V7.0
IBM Rational Asset Analyzer for z/OS V6
IBM Tivoli Omegamon XE for DB2 PE on z/OS V5.1
IBM Tivoli Omegamon XE for DB2 PM on z/OS V5.1
IBM DB2 Utilities Suite for z/OS V10.1
IBM DB2 High Performance Unload for z/OS V4.1
IBM DB2 Administration Tool for z/OS V10.1
IBM DB2 Object Comparison Tool for z/OS V10.1
IBM DB2 Buffer Pool Analyzer for z/OS V5.1
IBM DB2 SQL Performance Analyzer for z/OS V4.1

Price increases vary per product and go from 0% up to 55% for Belgian customers. Prices also become effective April 1, 2011. Check out the announcement for more details.

Query for selecting second maximum salary from a table

Many a times i heard that it is the most asking questions by the mainframe opportunity seeker that "Query for selecting second maximum salary from a table"
here is the code

SELECT MAX(SAL) FROM EMP WHERE SAL < (SELECT MAX(SAL) FROM EMP);
Where SAL is the salary column,
EMP is the name of table.
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Find out Nth highest salary from emp table

SELECT DISTINCT (a.sal) FROM EMP A WHERE &N = (SELECT COUNT (DISTINCT (b.sal)) FROM EMP B WHERE a.sal<=b.sal);

lets take an example:
EMP
e_no e_name sal
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001 ram 15000
002 shyam 35000
003 hari 5000
004 krishna 20000
005 rahul 25000



eg:-
a= 3;
20000
hope this will help

List of company working on mainframe

INFOSYS
HCL
ACCENTURE
TCS
IBM
PATNI
KANBY
CTS
COVANYS
EDS
WIPRO
POLARIS
L&T
VETTRI
SATHYAM/PCS
MASCON
SYNTEL
XANSA
HCL
HPS4
Ford
Hexaware
verizon
Mpowerss
MASTEK
ANZ
Iflex
CGI
HSBC
MPHASIS
MBT
CITI BANK
COLES MYERS
DETUSCHE BANK
NET CRAFT
INFINITY
PHENIX
EFUNDS
MINDTREE
MINDTEK
FEDILITY
TIMKEN
DIGITAL
KEANE
POLARIS
MAJORIS
US Software
Macro Soft
Nest
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Here is the list of company having monopoly in specific sectors:
Health care - Wipro(Cardinal,pedigree)
Banking - HSBC,IBM,ACCENTURE
Insurance - SATYAM,PATNI,IBM
Admin&production support - IBM,CSC,SATYAM

difference between examine and inspect in cobol used for IBM Mainframe

EXAMINE & INSPECT are used for same purpose. INSPECT is used now, which has replaced EXAMINE. The EXAMINE statement is an HP extension to the ANSI COBOL standard. It has been replaced by the INSPECT statement, Although HP COBOL II includes the EXAMINE statement for compatibility with COBOL'68, it is advisable that one should use the INSPECT statement for coding new programs.
For reading more please refer the following link:
http://docs.hp.com/cgi-bin/doc3k/B3150090013.11820/84