Process and Tools

Six Sigma is one of the most potent strategies ever developed to accelerate improvements in processes, products, and services, and to radically reduce manufacturing and/or administrative costs and improve quality. It achieves this by relentlessly focusing on eliminating waste and reducing defects and variations.

Leading-edge companies are applying this bottom-line enhancing strategy to every function in their organizations -- from design and engineering to manufacturing to sales and marketing to supply management -- for dramatic savings.

Now, Honeywell has developed a new generation of Six Sigma. It's a proprietary system called Six Sigma Plus. This powerful quality strategy was developed through the 1999 merger of the two technology giants, AlliedSignal and Honeywell, both long-time leaders in applying modern methodologies to meeting customer needs.

Many in business already understand Six Sigma as a measure of excellence. Honeywell used the merger to combine the best practices of both companies, add capability and take its continuous process improvement methods to a new level of excellence which it calls "Six Sigma Plus."

Six Sigma Plus is Morris Township, NJ-headquartered Honeywell's principal engine for driving growth and productivity across all its businesses, including aerospace, performance polymers, chemicals, automation and control, transportation, and power systems, among others. In addition to manufacturing, Honeywell applies Six Sigma Plus to all of its administrative functions.

Through Six Sigma Plus, Honeywell empowers its employees with the skills and tools necessary to create more value for its customers; improve its processes, products, and services.

Six Sigma Plus methodology (Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, and Control) is applied to a wide variety of projects -- not only to the elimination of variation in processes. That means Honeywell's Six Sigma Plus umbrella is larger than that of many companies; its skill sets include Lean Enterprise, Activity Based Management, Honeywell Quality Value assessment, Total Productive Maintenance and Growth projects, among others.

Honeywell infuses and sustains Six Sigma Plus in the culture at each of its work sites around the world. That is why it invests heavily in Six Sigma Plus learning for its employees. This is a huge commitment that fuels customer-driven process improvements as well as new products and services in each of Honeywell's businesses everywhere.