Six Sigma - towards operational excellence

SKF is working with Six Sigma which is a systematic and disciplined approach to achieving excellence in all new and existing processes. It is an important part of the continuous improvement process within the SKF Group and a natural development from TQM, Lean, 4Z and other improvement programs.

Black and Green Belts

The core of Six Sigma is the improvement projects, lead by the "Belts". The Black Belts are full-time committed project managers and the Green Belts are part-time committed project managers. They are thoroughly trained in the Six Sigma methodology and tools. With the help of project teams, consisting of experts in the different processes, and using the different tools that the Six Sigma roadmap contains, their objective is to improve the different processes and to develop new processes.

At SKF there are some 2500 people actively working as Six Sigma project leaders today, and the number is rising every month as the training continues.