Mercury Marine Completes 1,000th Six Sigma Project; Milestone achieved with use of PowerSteering Software.CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- PowerSteering, the market leader in On-Demand Enterprise Performance Improvement solutions, announced that longtime customer Mercury Marine Mercury Marine, founded in 1939, is a division of Brunswick Corporation of Lake Forest, Illinois, in the United States. Company beginnings The company began when engineer Carl Kiekhaefer purchased a small outboard motor company in Cedarburg, Wisconsin. has surpassed the 1,000th Lean Six Sigma Lean Six Sigma is a business improvement methodology which combines (as the name implies) tools from both Lean Manufacturing and Six Sigma. Lean manufacturing focuses on speed and traditional Six Sigma focuses on quality. By combining the two, the result is better quality faster. project milestone. Mercury Marine is the world's leading manufacturer of recreational marine propulsion Marine propulsion is the act of moving an object through the water or across its surface. The most common types are underwater propeller, water jet, paddle wheel and, experimentally, magnetohydrodynamic drive. engines. A $2.3 billion division of Brunswick Corporation The Brunswick Corporation NYSE: BC, formerly known as the Brunswick-Balke-Collender Company, is a United States-based corporation that has been involved in manufacturing a wide variety of products since 1845. It had 2006 sales of US$5. , Mercury and its 6,400 employees worldwide provide engines, boats, services and parts for recreational, commercial and government marine applications. The company has been a PowerSteering customer for two years and has more than 2,000 users. PowerSteering is used to integrate Lean Six Sigma with Strategic Business goals and help drive greater deployment effectiveness and efficiency. Team members rely on PowerSteering to keep champions engaged, identify opportunities to reduce project cycle time, create a consistent financial tracking methodology and optimize project selection. "Completing our 1000th project is a significant milestone for Mercury Marine as we have transformed our business processes, engaged our employees and reduced costs along the way. All of our Lean Six Sigma projects are managed through PowerSteering and, as a result, our deployment team has streamlined project execution, increased team productivity and leveraged best practices across divisions," remarked Brad Beaird, director of Lean Six Sigma for Mercury Marine. Since the launch of the company's Six Sigma Not to be confused with Sigma 6. Six Sigma is a set of practices originally developed by Motorola to systematically improve processes by eliminating defects.[1] A defect is defined as nonconformity of a product or service to its specifications. efforts in 2003, thousands of Mercury employees around the world have embraced continuous improvement as a way to improve the company's business processes, increase quality, enhance customer service and lower costs. Lean Six Sigma techniques have been successfully applied to the product design, manufacturing, planning, sales, distribution and service processes. Mercury Marine has even extended the use of Lean Six Sigma to its supply chain. About PowerSteering PowerSteering Software is the leader in On-Demand Enterprise Performance Improvement solutions for Lean, Six Sigma, Operational Excellence and other strategic initiatives including Merger Management, Product Development and Project & Portfolio Management. Its easy-to-use On-Demand software provide executives at Raytheon, Brunswick, U.S. Army, NAVAIR NAVAIR Naval Air Systems Command AIRSpeed airspeed Noun the speed of an aircraft relative to the air in which it moves Noun 1. airspeed - the speed of an aircraft relative to the air in which it is flying speed, velocity - distance travelled per unit time , U.S. Air Force, Textron, Tyco, IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) , Merck, SABMiller, Johnson & Johnson, and others with real-time executive visibility, strategy alignment, and enhanced program and team productivity to drive strategy and accelerate results across the enterprise. Visit www.powersteeringsoftware.com for additional information. |
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