The focus of six sigma. If you listen to the philosophy, teachings of saints and sages, you will hear one thing in common. There is an underlying cause for every effect to occur. This sentence is so powerful and worth repeating multiple times. The same philosophy is the principle of the Six Sigma methodology to the effects are termed as the capital letter why, and the causes for those effects are termed as the Xs. These y's are also called as dependent or output variables, and the x's are called as independent or input variables.

For every y to occur, there could be one or more x's in play, hence We establish the relationship between the y and x variables using an equation. You may have already studied this equation in school or college, it is y is a function of x. Let's look at the example. If you are getting late to office it can be termed as the effect or the why this could be due to many causes. These causes could be that you got up late. There was unusually heavy traffic.

You had to drop your daughter to school. You had to cook food before leaving. The car had a flat tire and you did not have a spare tire. Among others. These causes are termed as excess. So would you focus on the effect or the causes the focus of Six Sigma On the causes and not on the effect, if you work on ensuring that the x's are taken care of, you will observe the Y will automatically improve.

In other words, if we work on the cause, the effect is bound to come