Vdot: A COTS Tool to Optimize Aerospace Applications

Aerospace organizations around the globe are adopting Lean Six-Sigma (LSS) methodologies on an ever increasing basis in order to optimize and improve efficiency and create higher profits. Unfortunately, many companies struggle to implement and realize the true benefits of LSS, spending enormous time and effort trying to capture their processes and documentation only to find that their work gathers dust on a book shelf and is soon obsolete. This paper describes how key elements of LSS, i.e. Define – Measure – Analyze – Improve – Control (DMAIC), are actively enabled through a commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) process management tool called VdotTM from ESI Group. Vdot’s intuitive visual interface brings Lean Six-Sigma to life by turning static, paper-based processes into active, electronic processes that can be deployed, executed, managed, verified and continuously improved across the enterprise.