Six Sigma and Beyond: Design for Six Sigma, Volume VI
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Earning ratios, 693 “695
Earnings, 692 “693
and change management, 127
and luck, 693
retained, 670
Earnings before interest and taxes (EBIT), 668
Earnings per share (EPS), 662, 669
EBIT (earnings before interest and taxes), 668
Economic buyers , 117
Economic order quantity (EOQ) model, 707
Economies of scale, 155
Effort goals, 159
Eigenvalues, 177
Eigenvectors, 177
Eight-level factors, 389
Elastic buckling, 176
Elasticity, 177, 179
Elastic of modulus , 654
Electrical design margins, 359
Electrical discharges, 289
Electrical measurements, 527
Electroforming, 204
Electronics industry, 2, 5
Element connectivities, 180
Element data recovery, 181
Element properties, 180
Elevating hopper feeders, 207
Emission standards, 54
Employees, 663
and benchmarking, 104, 107
motivation and earnings of, 693
Enclosures, 358
Encyclopedia of Business Information Services , 145
Encyclopedias, 145
Engineering
in business assessments, 136 “137
conformance elements in, 502
manufacturing, 494
nonconformance elements in, 503
plant, 494 “495
Engineering analysis, 266
Engineering changes, costs of, 297 “298
Enhancing functions, 58 “59, 264
Environmental controls, 526
Environmental FMEA, 225
Environmental laws, 54
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), 147
EOQ (economic order quantity) model, 707
EPS (earnings per share), 662, 669
Equal bilateral tolerance, 523
Equipment, 362, 675
Equipment errors, 526
Equity
in balance sheet equation, 664, 674
and debt, 692
ratio to total debt, 697
of shareholders, 667
in theory of firm, 661
Equity/debt ratios, 692
Equity earnings, 484
Erlicher, Harry, 555
Errors, 526 “527
eliminating, 212
inevitability of, 212
proofing, 208, 274
variables , 336 “337
Essential functions, 58 “59
Esteem value, 558
Estimated costs, 703
Euclid, 542
Euler buckling analysis, 176, 177
Evaluation phase (job plans), 585 “591
Evaluation summary, 587
Evidence books, 475, 477
Excel (software), 182
Exchange value, 558
Excitement needs, 229
Excitement quality, 69 “71
Executives, 663
Expanded partnering, 12 “14
Expansion, coefficient of, 531
Expected customer life, 289
Expenditures, 680
Expenses, 701
vs. assets, 680 “681
depreciation as, 684
and productivity, 702
Experiments, 249;
see also DOE (design of experiments)
analysis in, 405 “410, 415 “418
column interaction tables in, 384
confirmatory tests in, 418 “421
degrees of freedom in, 383
dynamic situations in, 430 “441
factor levels in, 380 “382
factors with large numbers of levels in, 392
factors with three levels in two-level arrays in, 391
factors with two levels in three-level arrays in, 390 “391
hardware test setups in, 385 “386
inner and outer arrays in, 393
linear graphs in, 382 “384
nesting of factors in, 392
orthogonal arrays in, 383 “384
parameter design, 441 “447
planning, 372 “380
randomization of tests in, 394
test arrays in, 387 “389
tolerance design, 447 “454
Exponential distribution, 617, 641
in fixed-sample tests, 318 “320
in reliability problems, 618
in sequential tests, 321 “323
Exponential function, 619
Extended interior penalty functions, 185
External failure costs, 101, 483, 491
External gate hopper feeders, 207
External manufacturing, 6 “7
External variations, 28
Extraordinary costs, 703
Extrusion, 204