Six Silver Sigmas Cap

AVAILABLE ONLY AT QI CURIOSITIES

The many thousands of six sigma practitioners, men and women alike, ought not go around hatless. 

Dad hats aren't just for dads. Our exclusive design of six sigmas makes an excellent gift for industrial engineers, quality improvement experts, op-ex professionals, and all lean thinkers.

Our embroidered emblem is slick, simple, and shimmering. Several shades of grey thread weave in an out to create six shades of silver.

This soft and flexible, low profile beauty should be hanging from every black belt’s and green belt's hat rack. It comes equipped with an adjustable strap and curved visor. Process improvement is too vital to risk the sun getting in your eyes. 

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If somehow you’re on this page and yet you don’t know what Six Sigma is, read on.

Six Sigma is a collection of analytical tools and techniques, undergirded by process improvement principles, and organized into a five-phase methodology known in short as DMAIC (“duh-may-ick”):

   1)  DEFINE the business problem, the SMART goals, project resources, scope, and timeline. Maybe get some voice of the customer activity going, perhaps a SIPOC.

   2) MEASURE current process and performance variables. Establish your baseline.

   3) ANALYZE to identify, validate and target root causes. Nail down which process inputs have the greatest leverage over the outcome measures.

   4) IMPROVE the process. Design an intervention. Test it. Implement it, either in part or as a whole.

   5) CONTROL the new process. Build in sustainability mechanisms, something beyond promises of vigilance.

The term Six Sigma originated in the quality control departments of manufacturing, primarily Motorola’s. Unisys, AlliedSignal, and General Electric were other prominent early adopters. The term comes from a reliability level. Six Sigma reliability means long-term defect levels are below 3.4 per million opportunities (DPMO).

Investopedia has a nice summary statement: “Six Sigma has since evolved into a more general business concept, focusing on meeting customer requirements, improving customer retention, and improving and sustaining business products and services.”

We at Quality Improvement Curiosities think of DMAIC as the universal scientific approach to process problems. Following the DMAIC methodology focuses us on process and encourages sustainability.

Product Specifications
• 100% chino cotton twill
• Green Camo color is 35% chino cotton twill, 65% polyester
• Unstructured, 6-panel, low-profile
• 6 embroidered eyelets
• 3 ⅛” (7.6 cm) crown
• Adjustable strap with antique buckle
• Blank product sourced from Vietnam or Bangladesh

This product is made especially for you as soon as you place an order, which is why it takes us a bit longer to deliver it to you. Making products on demand instead of in bulk helps reduce overproduction, so thank you for making thoughtful purchasing decisions!

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