SIX SIGMA FOR THE NEXT MILLENNIUM: A CSSBB GUIDEB

This book follows the ASQ Certified Six Sigma Black Belt (CSSBB) Body of Knowledge exactly and is designed to walk the reader through at a medium-level of detail. Organization of the material is completely straightforward— broken down into ""bite-size"" chunks with the student in mind. While a plethora of books claim some relation to Six Sigma, unfortunately very few of them support the body of knowledge explicitly.

The author supplies the Black Belt candidate with enough information to pursue the CSSBB examination aggressively, with the material in the book and also the ancillary works referenced. At the end of each chapter are one or two titles for further reading, works that the author owns personally and uses for both work and formal examination study.

Kim H. Pries is currently Director, Product Integrity & Reliability Section at Stoneridge Transportation Electronics Division, where he manages software integration testing, hardware testing, product verification and validation testing, and reliability testing, as well as the Production Test Equipment (automated test equipment) department. He also instructs at the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) professional and continuing education programs in Black Belt certification preparation and eight different phases of an automotive quality system including PPAP, FMEA, 8D, and problem solving. Pries has a B.A. in history, a B.S. in Met.Eng., and an M.S. in Metallurgical Engineering, all from the University of Texas at El Paso, as well as an M.S. in Materials Science from Carnegie-Mellon University. He is an ASQ Certified Quality Auditor (CQA), Certified Quality Engineer (CQE), and Certified Six Sigma Black Belt (CSSBB). Additionally, he is certified by APICS as a production and inventory manager (CPIM). He is an ASQ Senior Member.