Employees of Baxa Corp. recently graduated from a government-funded pilot program in Six Sigma methodology and were deployed to use their new skills to improve their company.

The training program is just part of Baxa’s quality improvement efforts. The company is now working on several quality improvement efforts designed to give the Six Sigma effort internal momentum, while using Six Sigma graduates to train other employees in the methodology.

“Six Sigma gives up practical solutions that impact the bottom line,” says Greg Baldwin, Baxa chairman and CEO. “Our expectation is that this means of process review and waste elimination will become part of our culture of delivering customer satisfaction and value, while at the same time improving profitability.”

The participants in the initial Six Sigma training have been charged with identifying six projects for implementation of the methodology that align with Baxa Corp.’s strategic goals and will provide tangible results for the rest of the organization. The 18 participants who completed the training work in the company’s quality, operations, engineering, finance, information systems and technical support departments. They were trained by a Six Sigma Master Black Belt.

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