Six Sigma is a highly disciplined approach to decision making that helps people focus on improving processes to make them as near perfect as possible. Six Sigma is attempting to improve both effectiveness and efficiency at the same time.

Thanks to the efforts of Linetec Black Belts, Green Belts, and associates involved with Six Sigma projects, we have again achieved greater accomplishments than required by Apogee and our share holders. For the fourth year in a row, we are on pace to achieving the Apogee Chairman's Award for meeting criteria set by Apogee that recognizes a company for exemplary performance in the area of Six Sigma/Lean initiatives.

The term "Six Sigma" relates to the number of mathematical defects in a process. Six Sigma practitioners focus on systematically eliminating the defects so they can get as close to "zero defects" as possible.

Some of the world’s largest companies – including GE, Bank of America, Honeywell, DuPont, Samsung, Starwood Hotels, Bechtel, and Motorola – have used Six Sigma to achieve considerable improvements in business performance, in everything from products to processes to complex systems and even in work environments. These companies have paved the way for making Six Sigma deployable through large networks of Champions, Black Belts, Green Belts, Yellow Belts and Process Owners.