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6 Sigma Samurai (1/06/09)
Copyright 2010. All rights reserved.
Written by Chris McMichael.


I’m a Six Sigma ninja.
I’m a Six Sigma samurai.
I’ve got my blackbelt .
Six Sigma ‘til I die.

Aaah tsugoi Six Sigma dai suki. (How exciting. I love Six Sigma!).
Hey what’s that? It’s Japanese.
Nah, Six Sigma, can you please expound?
It’s nothin’ new, man it’s been around?
I guess I should go ahead and start from the top
And educate the peeps with some crazy hip-hop
6 follows five, as I’m sure you well know
But sigma is Greek and it comes after rho
You didn’t study Greek in college? Uh, No!
But that’s just the name, UH-OH here We GO!
Now we get into statistical terms
And things get messy like an 80’s perm
Let’s Say rho is a stats population
Then sigma is rho’s standard deviation.
Now let’s say you have a process suspect
you don’t want an item to fail your spec.
6 standard deviations you must collect
between the mean of the process
and the nearest limit spec
If you collect all 6, no item can fail
You just succeeded so now you yell.

Chorus

Now what’s key is that you understand Muda
Muda is waste, and waste ain’t gooda
There are 7 basic types that we must define
And I’ll give ‘em to you one by one in rhyme

Word by word and line by line
First on the list is a waste of time
Known as waiting, and time is money
Equipment sitting and engines running
Employees sitting with nothing to do.
Hope you’re hungry for the soupline blues.

Next is defects, man that stinks
Production Ghosts with the product jinx
Fix it good and fix it fast
Cause you need this job
And you need it bad

Then there’s product conye-vance
You must stop waste at every chance
Move it once, then move it twice
Move it again, and that makes thrice
The forklift’s busy with the fuzzy dice
Solve it quick cause promotion’s nice

Over-production off the line
too much product all the time
Trim the line and make it lean
Time for a break if you know what I mean…

Intermission
(mind ya business, make it lean, yo!) x4

Up to bat is inventory
Again and again this is the story
Parts and pieces and things and stuff
Shelves are crowded with too much junk
Keep what you need, and that is all
Clean it now and don’t you stall

Then there’s movement of yo’ peeps
Too many steps can cost you steep
Keep them close to the task at hand
And them comfy with an ergonomic plan

Don’t forget Production Process
Old techniques can make a mess
Work instructions like the Dead Sea scrolls
You must update those protocols
Keep rules current and keep them new
And come and join the get fresh crew

CHORUS

This lingo’s like an alphabet soup-so…
Listen real close and we’ll keep you in the loop-o:

First There’s kaizen, kanban, muda
We’re startin’off slow like a chubby old Buddha.
TPS, DPMO’r
3D, 5S, you need to know more.
SMED, CTQ
PDCA, watcha gonna do?
DMAIC, oh me
Mura, muri, OEE
DMADV, oh mys
My head is spinning and I’m rubbin’ my eyes
J-I-T, yes, that spells jit
Almost done, but we can’t quite quit
Hey what’s that? It looks like SIPOCs?
Cutting through waste like a samurai Cyclops
Now we’re done, yeah Just in Time
On the beat-box is the Heijunka mime
Silly oh you, mimes can’t rhyme
But maybe with some work they can pantomime-

I’m a Six Sigma ninja
I’m a Six Sigma samurai
Now I’ve got my blackbelt
Six Sigma till I die