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A Systematic Literature Review of Lean Six Sigma in Various Industries

Hibarkah Kurnia1, Humiras Hardi Purba2
Industrial Engineering Department, Mercu Buana University, Jakarta, Indonesia1,2

Abstract The Lean Six Sigma / LSS approach has received a lot of attention in various industrial
sectors, from the manufacturing industry to the service industry. More specific knowledge about
Lean Six Sigma has increased. Much of the training and research on Lean Six Sigma is carried out
in various sectors. This literature review is related to LSS's purpose to provide an overview of Lean
Six Sigma implementation in the manufacturing industry. The Lean Six Sigma approach introduced
and implemented for a long time is DMAIC (Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, and control). This
paper discusses the published literature related to Six Sigma ranging from 2015 to 2020. This
paper involves the study review of 50 articles related to the implementation of LSS of general
database search, including Google Scholar, Elsevier, Science Direct, and other worldwide
publishers. This literature review contains results from a variety of different perspectives. The
perspective includes the industry's focus, the focus of the number of distribution by country, the
year of publication, and the number of publishers. This is useful for all types of manufacturing
industries to find solutions to problems. The paper also provides advantages for researchers next to
add to the literature.

Keywords: lean Six Sigma, quality improvement, DMAIC, industries

1. Introduction
In the competition in the global market, a speed is high. Generally, Six Sigma
business strategy is needed to win the match. implementation is carried out in the
The business strategy for achieving a manufacturing industry to reduce variability in
competitive advantage is the successful processes to provide a better organization,
implementation of a quality management product, or service to customers and minimize
system. Lean Six Sigma is here as a tool to error. According to (Winters-Miner et al.,
make it happen. Lean Six Sigma is one of the 2015), the chapter book about Six Sigma aims
most popular initiatives in industry sectors, to achieve quality by reducing variation in
including industrial manufacturing. Lean Six processes. Six Sigma seeks to reduce error rates
Sigma has developed rapidly in various such that six standard deviations around the
industries. The Six Sigma approach is used as a mean of a process fit between the upper and
tool s in solving the problem of production that lower tolerances. For example, a manufacturer
can be formulated breakthrough in the increase producing lock barrels had to make sure the
of production, reduce disability products, barrels' diameters were proper. If they were too
reduce the cost of production, reducing the time large, they wouldn't fit the lock's assembly, and
cycle of production, increase growth in the if they were too small, they also wouldn't
share of the market, to the retention of provide. Ideally, the upper and lower control
customers. The Six Sigma method is needed by limits include six standard deviations on each
companies, especially the production side of the mean to result in no more than 3.4
department, to improve their production quality. bad parts in 1,000,000 opportunities for error
Especially in technology, the products' power (99.9997% accuracy).
competitiveness is rigorous and demanding According to (Wang et al., 2016), numerous
companies have embraced Six Sigma projects
for improving their competitiveness over the
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emphasizing improving or optimizing existing enhanced in term length to prevent potential

products or processes. problems that will occur or when there is a
According to (Pereira et al., 2019), Six change of operations, personnel work, and
Sigma is accepted in companies for quality evolution of management of Statistical Process
improvement. If it is used just as a statistical Control (SPC). DMAIC is used when a
tool to solve complex problems, then it won't be company already has a product finished or
successful because Six Sigma sets the target products that are still in the process stage but
that needs to be achieved. In this context, Lean have not reached the customer's specifications.
Six Sigma uses a scientific method like DMAIC
and DMADV to solve problems. And then, 2. Methodology
according to (Vincent Gaspersz, 2002), two six This paper's purpose of exploring more
sigma methodologies can be used, namely: deeply the implementation of Six Sigma in
DMAIC and DMADV. DMAIC is used to various industries. Learn to search and find
improve the business processes that exist, several journals starting from the nearest year
whereas DMADV is used to create the new until 2015 in all international publications.
design process and or design of the product Studies carried out by men notice database
fresh in the way of such a form to produce a famed, including Google Scholar, Elsevier,
performance free of guilt (zero defect/error). Science Direct, and other publishers. This
This paper discusses the six sigma strategy with paper's purpose of elaborating on knowledge
the DMAIC stages. There is five stages or steps about the value of Six Sigma in the industry,
basis in implementing Six Sigma's approach: consider Six Sigma as an organizational
the Define-Measure-Analyze-Improve-Control strategy, and search for ways to get more
(DMAIC), where the stage is a stage that is insight into six Sigma.
repetitive or forming cycle of improvement of In doing a literature review, several steps
quality with Six Sigma. The following is an must be executed so that the systematic and
explanation of each phase: (1) Define: A stage directed implementation. The first step is to
of beginning the focus to identifying problems, formulate the problem. In this stage, the writer
determining the purpose of the process, and is required to choose a topic that matches the
identifying customers' needs are internally and issue taken. Questions must be written entirely
externally through Pareto Chart Critical To and accurately. Then the second step is looking
Quality. (2) Measure: Stages measure it for literature and journals. At this stage, the
objectively establishes the foundation of writer looks for literature relevant to the
improvement is a step of collecting the data research and then looks for an overview of the
with the purpose to develop a standard of research topic. After that, review according to
performance through Pareto Chart, case based on research sources.
measurement of process capability (Level The third step is to evaluate or identify the
sigma or process sigma), as well as the Four literature. Search results are sorted as case
Block Diagram. (3) Analysis: Phase Analysis studies or industry focus theory, focus number
isolate the cause of a major that is focused on of distribution by country, focus year of
by the team. The analysis's implementation is a publication, and publishers' number. The data
hydraulic diagram fishbone and test hypotheses collected, analyzed, and the results are
(Hypothesis test of a vital factor). (4) Improve: presented in graphical form. At this stage, look
Stage improvement focuses on understanding for the similarities and inequalities of the
fully the cause of a major who is identified in literature obtained. Then compare from various
phase analysis, in phases improve among perspectives, then make a summary
others, namely design of experiments, (summarize). The fourth step concludes the
measurement of process capability after identification of all the literature obtained. The
improvement (Level sigma-sigma process). (5) last stage is publishing in national and
Control: Stage set standardization, control, and international journals. More details can be seen
maintain the process has been improved and in Figure 1.

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LEAN SIX SIGMA IN VARIOUS INDUSTRIES, Journal of Engineering and Management in
Industrial System, 9 (2), p1-12
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Collect 55 Journals implementation Six Sigma in various Industry

Mapping and screening Journal the most relevant topic into 50 Journals

Journal summary based on paper identity, research object and research result

Journal Identification
Focus industry, Focus country, Focus year of publication, Focus number of
publication

Descriptive analysis for strenght and weakness

Fig 1. Study Framework

3. Result and Discussion or articles will be analyzed. The analysis was

3.1. Journal Summary carried out based on the researcher and year,
This paper identifies 50 journals related research object, and research results. The author
to the implementation of Six Sigma in the summarizes them in Table 1.
manufacturing industry. The selected journals

Table 1. Existing Literature review of Lean Six Sigma in Various Industries

No Paper Identity Research Object Result
1 (Kurniawan & Minimize defective Sigma value of 4.14, meaning a possible defect
Prestianto, 2020) product on baby product of 4033.39 opportunities per million
clothes products
2 (Haryanto & Defect reduction in Dirty defects are the most significant defect type of
Ichtiarto, 2020) automotive 20.92%, temperature and conveyor speed factors,
and environmental factors
3 (Kaswan & Rathi, The sustainable The framework provides a path for GLS
2020) oriented demand implementation through an appropriate selection of
the project
4 (L. B. M. Costa et To examine how the The Six Sigma role structure and Statistical
al., 2020) food industry sector's Process Control practices were among the least
characteristics affect adopted methods in the Sector
5 (Niñerola et al., To improve patient Can emphasize the operating room and radiology
2020) quality and safety service, the objectives are focused mainly on
achieving reductions of time, costs, and errors, to
quality improvement and the patient's satisfaction
6 (Reaz et al., 2020) Reducing such waste This shows that the defective rate dropped from 4.13
can be profitable to 1.25 of a line daily production.
options for the
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manufacturers
7 (Huda, 2020) Quality control The sigma level is in the 3.21 sigma position with a
welding construction DPMO value of 43,958.93
8 (Fithri, 2019) Quality control of the The Defect per Million Opportunity value obtained
textile industry was 181.67, and the Sigma value was 5.07
fabrics
9 (Aina Nindiani et al., Defect reduction in Butsu and hijiki defects were dominant, the DPMO
2019) automotive (Defects per Million Opportunities) value was
31.91%, and the sigma value increased from 2.90 to
3.10.
10 (Erdil, 2019) The development of Assessed on the framework of quality, robust and
quality management environment-oriented production such as green
in the textiles production
industry
11 (Lajoie et al., 2019) To resolve potential Three steps in a framework which includes the
issues related to the definition and the characterization in the industrial
variable process process, predictive modelling, and prescriptive
analytics
12 (Pereira et al., 2019) Analyze the Key The CS indicator for the year 2017 was relatively
Performance low, especially in gate 3. Part Per Million is lower
Indicator (KPI) because there are fewer complaints, and then there
would also be fewer rejected parts.
13 (Gaur, 2019) Improves the OR That by improving list management, OR
efficiency and rescheduling, reducing patient pathway time,
reduces the reinforcing Day Care Surgery Program
cancellation
14 (Goyal et al., 2019) Quality control at the Evidence of achieving higher sustainability for
production process competitiveness by classifying defects based on their
end impact
15 (J. P. Costa et al., Reduce the defective Reduction in the number of defective units from
2019) units produced by an 3231 ppm to 312 ppm and the increase in the sigma
automatic process level from 4.22 to 4.92
16 (Nørup et al., 2019) It improved reuse and The clothing and household textiles in residual waste
recycling. is 12 ± 5.3% and 15 ± 10.5%, and the dress and
household textiles in small combustibles is 14 ±
3.9% and 16 ± 8.7%
17 (Neutze & Stortz, Applicability in Performance-based to value-based payment models,
2018) health care health-care providers will need to become adept with
quality improvement skills.
18 (Söylemez & Product quality The suggestion method was efficient in the effort to
Tarhan, 2018) improvement be required and effective in development
performance and product quality improvement
19 (Wu et al., 2018) Wire Arc Additive The wide application of WAAM still presents many
Manufacturing challenges, and these may need to be addressed in
(WAAM) process specific ways for different materials to achieve the
operational system in an acceptable time frame
20 (Roesmasari et al., Quality improvement Open grain with a value of 576 and the second
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Industrial System, 9 (2), p1-12
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2018) in leather garment highest RPN value of 448 for fish eye defects. The
type of cracking defect also has an RPN value of 448
21 (Nasution & Quality improvement Mould defects were 109,439 units (49.2%) of the
Sodikin, 2018) in carton box total defects, namely 222,421 units
22 (Didiharyono et al., Quality improvement The average sigma level is 1.929, or 33.5% Defect
2018) in drinking water Per Million Opportunities (DPMO). Factory Reject
with a percentage of the total damage is 57.1% and
Reject Supplier as much as 42.9%
23 (Elza & Santosa, Reduce defect in the Off-centre oblique stitches' defects on day 1 were
2017) garment industry 61.8%, with 21 defects out of 34 defects and 55.0%
with 22 defects out of 40 observed B-Grade defects.
24 (Rimantho & Quality control of After improving the sigma value to 4.09 with a
Mariani, 2017) water production possible failure of the process of 5526
25 (Supriyadi et al., Reducing Flexo Capability and sigma value of company performance
2017) Machine production in improving product quality is 7560 DPMO with a
defects sigma value of 3.93
26 (Ekawati & Reducing defects in The DPMO value was obtained at 86.03, and the
Rachman, 2017) product horn sigma value of 5.28
27 (T. Costa et al., Improving the rubber The study thus culminated in a decrease of 0,89% on
2017) extrusion process of the indicator of work-off generated by the production
two tire semi- system
products
28 (Bakar et al., 2017) Increase fabric Input from the average index value of productivity,
productivity materials (98.85%), and energy (95.11%)
29 (Sihombing & Defective product Controlling the quality of raw materials and
Sumartini, 2017) quantity in textiles controlling the quality of the process hurts the
number of defective products as well as on the cost
of quality (Cost of Quality), while the quantity of
faulty products has a positive effect on the cost of
quality
30 (Nurprihatin et al., Reduction of waste in The values of Defect Per Million Opportunities
2017) the garment (DPMO) and Sigma are 2150 and 4.36 sigma
31 (Adikorley et al., To explore Lean Six The reduction in the increased sigma level to 3.74.
2017) Sigma (LSS) project Contamination was reduced on the third line
and program success resulting in a 4.32 sigma level
in the textile and
apparel industry
32 (Widiyawati & Quality control in the The value of DPMO = 18.92, so it can be seen that
Assyahlafi, 2017) Cigarette company the sigma value is 5.62 and the defect type of opp
peeling is 20.7%
33 (Pratiwi et al., 2016) Increase quality grey The DPMO value is 20.028 and is at the 3.57 sigma
fabrics level. While the cumulative sum is known that 579
out of control data from 888 all data
34 (Jardini et al., 2016) Additive A series of computed tomography data were
Manufacture obtained, and software was used to extract the
technologies applied cranial geometry
to design
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35 (Nakamura et al., Two-dimensional Design three-missing-air-hole and zero-cell-defect
2016) photonic crystal nanocavities with Q factors of 5,000,000 and
nanocavities 1,700,000, respectively, for demonstration
36 (Danny Darmawan Improved exhaust DPMO and sigma values of 12,879 and 3.73 sigma
& Ekawati, 2016) production indicate that improvements still need to be made to
the exhaust production process
37 (Pugna et al., 2016) Quality Improvement DPMO was reduced from 81 to 108, improved the
in the automotive riveting process led to a 40% defect reduction, for
industry choosing the most suitable Supplier to 30% defect
reduction
38 (Eleftheriadis & Quality Combination of quality methods as a contribution to
Myklebust, 2016) improvements to rework of products, less waste of material and
reach in aerospace Improved productivity
39 (F. Hutami & Quality control in the Sigma level 3.78 and priority improvement of work
Yunitasari, 2016) printing procedures in a company environment that is not
going well
40 (Wang et al., 2016) Developing a new The profit of this 4-year study is projected at
product called very- US$6,555,262. Seven patients are invented during
high-bit-rate digital this product development.
subscriber line 2
comprising multiple-
dwelling units
41 (Wardana et al., Quality improvement Sigma value after corrective action implementation
2015) in garment 3,31σ
42 (Prasetyo, 2015) Quality improvement DPMO amount is 22.749,787 with sigma value 3,50.
in an aerosol can And Weld Problem as the largest number of rejects
is 311.226 pcs or 37,91% from all defect
43 (Harpensa et al., Quality improvement DPMO reduce to be 14791, 667 dan sigma value
2015) in the tile industry increase to be 3,680
44 (Salomon et al., Quality improvement Sigma value amount is 4,28 and 1,61% defect to big
2015) in the plastic industry container 211 PLY, so sigma value amount is 4,40
and 1,09% defect to big container 1L AS
45 (Indrawati & To improve the The level of Sigma is 2,97. There are 33,67% non-
Ridwansyah, 2015) process capability in value-added activity and 14,2% necessary non-
the iron ores industry value-added activity that occurs during the
manufacturing process
46 (Alkatiri et al., 2015) Reduce loss product Value Sigma is 4,09 with average result DPMO are
grey fabric textiles reducing the amount is 1.769,47 (27,13%) and sigma
value result increase 0,11 sigma (2,76%)
47 (Rahmiyati & Increasing The leading causes of temperature and conveyor
Rahim, 2015) productivity speed and environmental factors
48 (Wisnubroto, 2015) Quality control in the Sigma value is 4,055with DPMO 5.310 and less
production process strict product quality control
49 (Boon Sin et al., Developed by Organizational knowledge creation processes
2015) integrating positively affect knowledge
organizational

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50 (Jevgeni SEduard Measure failures of Can apply corrective actions and perform continuous
SRoman Z, 2015) production processes improvement by performing daily monitoring of
production processes

3.2. Journal Identification implemented Six Sigma. In this case, Six Sigma
The identification of literature will be neglects, especially in developed and
identified from various perspectives. The developing countries. Growth in Indonesia is in
perspective includes the industry's focus, the the figure of 54% from the total publisher,
focus of the number of distribution by country, which of the literature review, the projected
the year of publication, and the number of increase in the economy's complexity. Reports
publishers. Six Sigma Implementation is very have indicated that Indonesia has many
popularly used in the manufacturing industry. opportunities that have not been utilized in
More precisely, in the automotive industry. various industries and encourage growth and
Figure 2 informed that Six Sigma is more fieldwork creation. With the development of the
widely implemented in industrial automotive economy and the progress of Indonesia's
(16%) and garment (16%). This is in line with scientific knowledge that sustained, the country
the growing trend of both industries. In is rated to be in the path of the right to be a state
automotive manufacturing companies and of the most powerful in the world. Six Sigma is
garment industries, Six Sigma is used to present in manufacturing enterprises'
improve the quality of production. The Six implementation, remarkably to reduce the
Sigma strategy aims to reduce cycle times and variability in the process to give the
increase customer satisfaction in determining organization, product, or service that is good to
the optimal level and cost of service quality. customers and reduce errors. More details can
More details can be seen in Figure 2. be seen in Figure 3.

Fig. 3 The Focus of the Distribution by Country

Figure 4 shows that Scholar Publisher was

Fig. 2 The Focus of the Industry Sector most frequently searched during the 2015-2020
period, 55% (Figure 5). This is evident in
Figure 3 analyzes the distribution of Six identifying the journal, at the most base on
Sigma publications in manufacturing publisher Google Scholar. The author suggests
companies. Indonesia is the most frequently that researchers use Google Scholar to collect
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reference sources in research because Google perspectives, namely journal writing,

Scholar is also a reputable journal publisher and industry, and science. Journal explained in a
quickly gets the desired paper research. More clear and complete ranging from the
details can be seen in Figure 4. abstract, introduction, review literature,
methodology, results & discussion, and
conclusions. The advantage for the
perpetrator of business is to apply Lean Six
Sigma to get the slim, reduce the time of
the cycle, my alias excellent, and minimum
cost. However, they provided new
references for the subsequent researchers in
problem-solving related to implementation
with the lean six sigma approach.

3.4. Weakness Analysis

In addition to the literature study's
strengths, the author also found several
Fig. 4 The Focus of the Publisher weaknesses based on journal writing,
industry, and science. The format of writing
Figure 5 shows that 2015 is a year of journals is not organized, so that makes the
publication that was most frequently searched writer difficulty in identifying literature.
during the 2015-2020 period amount is 11 The approach of Six Sigma requires a time
articles (Figure 5). This is evident in identifying that is very long in the implementation.
the journal; for several years, almost every year, Need stages which systematic to get a result
many journals have entered international that is best and necessary monitoring it
publications. More details can be seen in Figure regularly. There are many new tools in
5.
modern life so that researchers have many
options in solving problems. As a result, the
Six Sigma approach is neglected.

4. Gap in Literature Review on LSS

and Future Research Agenda
The authors have identified the
following gaps in the current literature on
Lean Six Sigma. This gap has been grouped
and prioritized as follows. Lack of
differentiation between leadership style
required from Senior/Executive
management and Middle management in
organizations. Leadership is a critical factor
Fig. 5 The Focus of the Year Publication in the success of Lean Six Sigma. Its impact
will be the subject of future research to
3.3. Strength Analysis determine which leadership characteristics
In this literature study, the authors are most conducive to Lean Six Sigma's
found the strength of all the journals that successful deployment. The Lack of
had been analyzed. Power is based on three differentiation among industry sectors such
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as manufacture and services. A different techniques do not seem sufficient because

leadership style may be required in other they require more time and value. It is
industry sectors and across organizations of possible to profit from advanced techniques
quite different sizes. Lack of results, the suitable for extensive data, like big data
most variation of each paper's goals, and analytics and process mining, and
the variation that depends on six Sigma will traditional methods to create effective
be used on industry condition. decisions, shown in Figure 6. In future
For future research, Lean Six Sigma research, Collaboration of 3 components,
collects data to attain its goal. Collected Six Sigma, Lean manufacturing, and
data should be analyzed to create an industry 4.0, can provide a guide that makes
optimum and proper decision. However, easier, faster, more reliable, and satisfied
Industry 4.0 technologies change to gather decisions with data for improving quality in
an enormous amount of information. processes.
Therefore, traditional data analysis

Fig. 5 Future Research Framework

5. Conclusion processes. This is a benchmark for

Lean Six Sigma approach is a manufacturing companies to provide an
structured and systematic methodology for overview of tools for solving quality-related
improving a process focused on reducing problems. Because with improvements with
process variance as much as possible, the lean six sigma approach, companies can
minimizing defects (products/services that get many benefits, including changes in
fall outside of specifications) by using product and service quality, increased
statistics and problem-solving tools productivity, lower costs, reduced defective
intensively. Six Sigma's primary focus as a products, and problems that can be resolved
management system is on three things: the quickly. This paper suggests that Six Sigma
focus on customers, processes, and data can be applied in the SME industrial sector
management. This paper identifies that of because financial SMEs often experience
the 50 journals analyzed, almost all of them obstacles.
can improve the quality of products
produced or manufacturing companies'
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