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   <pubDate>Tue, 12 Aug 2008 14:46:50 GMT</pubDate>
   <lastBuildDate>Tue, 12 Aug 2008 14:46:50 GMT</lastBuildDate>
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    <title>Six Sigma Process Basics</title>
    <link>http://www.bexcellence.org/six-sigma-process.html</link>
    <description>In order to better understand the detailed methods of Six Sigma Process , it is important to first have a clear understanding of the basics involved</description>
    <pubDate>Tue, 12 Aug 2008 14:46:50 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Business Excellence.Org &gt;&gt; The Way To Success</title>
    <link>http://www.bexcellence.org/index.html</link>
    <description>Business excellence is featured by good profitability, business capability, growth in sales, and market share, on the basis of quality (TomPeters, 1982).</description>
    <pubDate>Sun, 10 Aug 2008 15:36:51 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>six sigma tutorial</title>
    <link>http://www.bexcellence.org/six-sigma-tutorial.html</link>
    <description>six sigma tutorial,six sigma methodology,overview of six sigma</description>
    <pubDate>Sun, 10 Aug 2008 14:39:52 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Process control</title>
    <link>http://www.bexcellence.org/process-control.html</link>
    <description>Process control is the 2nd step in Business Process Management</description>
    <pubDate>Tue, 05 Aug 2008 12:40:31 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Process planning</title>
    <link>http://www.bexcellence.org/process-planning.html</link>
    <description>Process planning is the 1st step in Business Process Management</description>
    <pubDate>Tue, 05 Aug 2008 12:38:35 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Takt Time</title>
    <link>http://www.bexcellence.org/Takt-Time.html</link>
    <description>Takt Time is defined as</description>
    <pubDate>Mon, 04 Aug 2008 21:17:49 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Activity Network Diagram</title>
    <link>http://www.bexcellence.org/Activity-Network-Diagram.html</link>
    <description>Activity Network Diagram,Total Quality Management Tool , six sigma tools , tqm tools ,process improvement</description>
    <pubDate>Mon, 04 Aug 2008 19:31:00 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>process capability</title>
    <link>http://www.bexcellence.org/process-capability.html</link>
    <description>process capability</description>
    <pubDate>Mon, 04 Aug 2008 18:58:32 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>PDCA cycle</title>
    <link>http://www.bexcellence.org/PDCAcycle.html</link>
    <description>PDCA cycle , Deming cycle, Shewhart cycle ,</description>
    <pubDate>Mon, 04 Aug 2008 18:47:43 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Mistake proofing</title>
    <link>http://www.bexcellence.org/Mistake-proofing.html</link>
    <description>Mistake proofing  is defined as an improvement technology that uses a device or procedure</description>
    <pubDate>Mon, 04 Aug 2008 18:37:35 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Appraisal Costs.</title>
    <link>http://www.bexcellence.org/Appraisal-Costs.html</link>
    <description>Appraisal Costs are the costs incurred to determine the degree of conformance to quality</description>
    <pubDate>Mon, 04 Aug 2008 18:32:46 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>discovery</title>
    <link>http://www.bexcellence.org/discovery.html</link>
    <description>discovery phase  : There might be many potential projects across the process and the Team is charged with identifying them prior to selecting one and carrying it to conclusion.</description>
    <pubDate>Mon, 04 Aug 2008 18:19:23 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Prevention Costs</title>
    <link>http://www.bexcellence.org/Prevention-Costs.html</link>
    <description>Prevention Costs  are costs incurred to keep failure and appraisal costs to a minimum.</description>
    <pubDate>Mon, 04 Aug 2008 18:05:17 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Balanced scorecard</title>
    <link>http://www.bexcellence.org/balanced-scorecard.html</link>
    <description>The Balanced Scorecard  provides a clear prescription as to what companies should measure in order to 'balance' the financial perspective.</description>
    <pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2008 14:33:03 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>process capability</title>
    <link>http://www.bexcellence.org/Process-Capability.html</link>
    <description>process capability</description>
    <pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2008 14:29:36 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Fish Bone</title>
    <link>http://www.bexcellence.org/Fish-Bone.html</link>
    <description>Fish Bone , Cause-and-Effect Diagram, Ishikawa Diagram, Total Quality Management Tool</description>
    <pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2008 14:23:24 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Data  and Information</title>
    <link>http://www.bexcellence.org/data.html</link>
    <description>Data and Information , re often used interchangeably, they dont mean the same thing.</description>
    <pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2008 14:18:01 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>External Failure Costs.</title>
    <link>http://www.bexcellence.org/External-Failure-Costs.html</link>
    <description>External Failure Costs associated with deficiencies that are found after product</description>
    <pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2008 13:46:09 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Theory of Constraints</title>
    <link>http://www.bexcellence.org/Theory-of-Constraints.html</link>
    <description>The theory of constraints (TOC), created by Dr. Eli Goldratt, is based on the</description>
    <pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2008 13:38:27 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>One Piece Flow</title>
    <link>http://www.bexcellence.org/One-Piece-Flow.html</link>
    <description>one piece flow is to connect and synchronize each individual activity process to eliminate the eight categories of waste</description>
    <pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2008 13:31:19 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>knowledge Management</title>
    <link>http://www.bexcellence.org/knowledge-management.html</link>
    <description>knowledge Management (KM) is the activity of expanding, storing, and retrieving intellectual capital, which may be defined as the collective knowledge (including experience, skills, data, and informat</description>
    <pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2008 13:24:54 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>SIPOC</title>
    <link>http://www.bexcellence.org/SIPOC.html</link>
    <description>SIPOC , Total Quality Management Tool , six sigma tools, tqm tools ,process improvement tool</description>
    <pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2008 13:21:53 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>FMEA</title>
    <link>http://www.bexcellence.org/FMEA.html</link>
    <description>FMEA, Failure Mode And Effects Analysis,Total Quality Management Tool , six sigma tools , tqm tools</description>
    <pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2008 13:11:13 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>deming total quality management philosophy</title>
    <link>http://www.bexcellence.org/deming-total-quality-management-philosophy.html</link>
    <description>deming total quality management philosophy, Deming was a protege of Dr. Walter Shewhart;he also spent one year studying under Sir Ronald Fisher</description>
    <pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2008 13:01:23 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Standard Work</title>
    <link>http://www.bexcellence.org/Standard-Work.html</link>
    <description>Standard work is defined as a set of work procedures that effectively combine people, materials, processes, technology, and machines to maintain quality, efficiency, safety, and predictability.</description>
    <pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2008 12:52:06 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>waste categories</title>
    <link>http://www.bexcellence.org/waste.html</link>
    <description>8 waste categories , Overproduction :Reduce lot size/batch size , Waiting:  Balance workloads</description>
    <pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2008 12:48:48 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>value stream mapping</title>
    <link>http://www.bexcellence.org/value-stream-mapping.html</link>
    <description>a value stream mapping is the first step required in any lean improvement initiative</description>
    <pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2008 12:41:53 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>kanban demand pull</title>
    <link>http://www.bexcellence.org/Kanban.html</link>
    <description>Kanban is a Japanese word that means</description>
    <pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2008 12:37:37 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Level Mix Model Production</title>
    <link>http://www.bexcellence.org/Level-Mix.html</link>
    <description>Level Mix Model Production is a method of scheduling daily production of various types of products in a sequence that evens out the peaks and valleys of quantities produced.</description>
    <pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2008 12:30:29 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Anova</title>
    <link>http://www.bexcellence.org/Anova.html</link>
    <description>Anova : One-Way Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) is used to compare the means of two or more samples</description>
    <pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2008 12:21:54 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>ezine</title>
    <link>http://www.bexcellence.org/ezine.html</link>
    <description>ezine</description>
    <pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2008 12:18:23 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>What Is Quality</title>
    <link>http://www.bexcellence.org/What-Is-Quality.html</link>
    <description>If you want To understand what is quality management , what is business excellence , YOU have to</description>
    <pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2008 12:16:06 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Business Operation Model</title>
    <link>http://www.bexcellence.org/Business-Operation-Model.html</link>
    <description>Know Business Operation Model is the 1st step to understand business excellence</description>
    <pubDate>Wed, 16 Jul 2008 18:08:22 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Philosophy Of Total Quality Management &amp; Management Strategies</title>
    <link>http://www.bexcellence.org/philosophy-of-total-quality-management.html</link>
    <description>Philosophy Of Total Quality Management is a management approach to long-term success</description>
    <pubDate>Wed, 16 Jul 2008 17:56:47 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award</title>
    <link>http://www.bexcellence.org/Malcolm-Baldrige-National-Quality-Award.html</link>
    <description>Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award It is a criteria designed to help organizations use an integrated approach to organizational performance management</description>
    <pubDate>Tue, 15 Jul 2008 06:46:39 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Lean manufacturing</title>
    <link>http://www.bexcellence.org/Lean-manufacturing.html</link>
    <description>Lean manufacturing is a generic process management philosophy derived mostly from the Toyota Production System (TPS)</description>
    <pubDate>Mon, 14 Jul 2008 15:20:26 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Total Quality Management Tools</title>
    <link>http://www.bexcellence.org/Total-Quality-Management-Tools.html</link>
    <description>Total Quality Management Tools , six sigma tools , tqm tools ,process improvement tools ,quality management tools , problem solving tools, quality tools</description>
    <pubDate>Mon, 14 Jul 2008 14:49:58 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Matrix diagram</title>
    <link>http://www.bexcellence.org/Matrix-diagram.html</link>
    <description>Matrix diagram , Total Quality Management Tool , six sigma tools , tqm tools ,process improvement tools.</description>
    <pubDate>Mon, 14 Jul 2008 14:15:57 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Six Sigma Overview</title>
    <link>http://www.bexcellence.org/Six-Sigma-Overview.html</link>
    <description>Six Sigma Overview: Six Sigma has been a popular management philosophy for years.</description>
    <pubDate>Mon, 14 Jul 2008 13:33:42 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Cost Of Quality</title>
    <link>http://www.bexcellence.org/Cost-Of-Quality.html</link>
    <description>We identify Cost Of Quality associated with business  for three reasons</description>
    <pubDate>Sun, 13 Jul 2008 19:58:21 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>What Is Total Quality Management Principles</title>
    <link>http://www.bexcellence.org/Total-quality-management.html</link>
    <description>What Is Total Quality Management , it  is a methode for business excellence</description>
    <pubDate>Sun, 13 Jul 2008 19:44:17 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>5S visual management</title>
    <link>http://www.bexcellence.org/5S-visual-management.html</link>
    <description>5S visual management is defined as an improvement process originated by the Japanese to create a workplace</description>
    <pubDate>Sun, 13 Jul 2008 18:51:55 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Statistical Process Control </title>
    <link>http://www.bexcellence.org/Statistical-Process-Control.html</link>
    <description>Statistical Process Control :(SPC) is the use of Control Charts to help control a process. Most novice Belts confuse SPC with Control Charts and vice versa. Control Charts are used in a number of plac</description>
    <pubDate>Fri, 30 May 2008 14:10:39 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Spaghetti </title>
    <link>http://www.bexcellence.org/Spaghetti.html</link>
    <description>Spaghetti Map or Physical Process Map is the simplest Lean Sigma tool. It demonstrates the physical flow of an entity or multiple entity types</description>
    <pubDate>Fri, 30 May 2008 13:15:57 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Regression</title>
    <link>http://www.bexcellence.org/Regression.html</link>
    <description>Regression is one of the statistical tools usedin the Multi-Vari approach and isprobably the most powerful. A Regression analysis determines</description>
    <pubDate>Thu, 29 May 2008 12:13:54 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>SMED</title>
    <link>http://www.bexcellence.org/SMED.html</link>
    <description>SMED: Rapid changeover or rapid setup is also known asSingle Minute Exchange of Dies (SMED) and was devised by ShigeoShingo.</description>
    <pubDate>Thu, 29 May 2008 11:08:17 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>OEE</title>
    <link>http://www.bexcellence.org/OEE.html</link>
    <description>Overall Equipment Effectiveness ( OEE ) is used extensively in the maintenance and equipment reliability world to examine equipment availability. </description>
    <pubDate>Wed, 09 Jan 2008 10:12:08 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Total Productive Maintenance</title>
    <link>http://www.bexcellence.org/Total-Productive-Maintenance.html</link>
    <description>Total Productive Maintenance : Tools and roadmap </description>
    <pubDate>Wed, 09 Jan 2008 09:35:04 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Capability</title>
    <link>http://www.bexcellence.org/Capability.html</link>
    <description>Capability : There are many performance metrics available (throughput, Overall Equipment Effectiveness, quality, and so on) of which Capability is just one</description>
    <pubDate>Mon, 24 Dec 2007 18:53:06 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>business week</title>
    <link>http://www.bexcellence.org/business-week.html</link>
    <description>As every business week pass , we learn from it , we need to share our expet</description>
    <pubDate>Fri, 14 Dec 2007 19:03:53 GMT</pubDate>
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