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Everyone starts a business with an aim to succeed. When the fundamental and the technical aspects of the action are right, the chances of excelling are assured. With flaws eradicated, and perfection, monitored, the road can only lead to being successful. Understanding this principal, Six Sigma was created. It is a management method that was specially detailed to ensure success in businesses by Motorola. Created in 1968, this quality deciding tool became slowly accepted and practiced in even the industrial sector. One of the main reasons behind its acceptance in, that there is no scope for mistake. Besides, quality becomes a figurative analysis. How can you judge quality? What is quality for one, can be sub-standard fro the other. But when there is a particular number or statistic to follow and which can help make a comparison, it is easy to decide on quality. Six-Sigma can be also understood as a way to analyze and evaluate every process involved in any industry. Right from the accessing the raw material, to every single step at every level is analyzed. Thus each step has to be error proof. The quality is monitored and rectified at every single process. Thus the final product is the mean of all the perfect steps taken previously. Can the end result of the conglomeration of the perfect go imperfect? Highly unlikely! Thus one can ensure that every product manufactured each time will be of the same quality and the same standard. This is because we have a measurement and rating of the same. By being a methodology of attaining quality, Six-sigma is today absorbed and is a tool used by many industries. With error of as little as 0.00034%, Six Sigma Certification guarantees a 99% success. It guides you to the insufficiencies and also shows you which step can be corrected and which needs improvement. The tool is not only used in the production level, it is also used in and applied in monitoring the management to man power. The duties performed at each step, the transfer of instructions, the skills of the work force, the needed training etc, every aspect of the managing and every sector involved in the industry comes under this scrutiny. This tool thus helps a calculative and systematic study for quality judgment. There is o substitute for quality. Today with tough competition, one cannot have the ruling monopoly in any industry unless you are the best. The competition is tough in every field. So how can you be chosen instead of your neighbor? There is one basic need or pre-requisite for you to stand tall amongst the rest, and that is quality. One time quality is insufficient. Quality is a standard that has to be constant and maintained time and again. This is consistency is the key for trust. Any business is based on trust. Once you assuring delivering quality time and again the customer and client are bound to build trust in you and your association. Thus imposing Six-sigma tool is beneficial for earning success and trust due to consistency in quality maintenance.
