What is DFSS? How does it fit with my organization?
Design for Six Sigma (DFSS) is the goal of the process (re)design strategy (DMADV). It means that we set out to create a design that is Six Sigma capable. This involves a trade-off between the top-down cascade of design requirements (from customer to system to subsystem to design element) and the bottom-up stacking of process capabilities (from element to subsystem to system to customer). The DFSS objective is to balance this trade-off using transfer equations that relate the X’s at the lower level to the Y’s at the higher level, and then either adjust the allocation of requirements or improve the process capabilities.
