Aims to provide a step-by-step roadmap for profiting from the best elements of Lean and Six Sigma; this book supplies a blueprint on achieving sustainable results from high-quality improvements and making organizations competitive and first in class in their marketplace. The book also presents optimization techniques from operations research methods, design experiment, and engineering process control. This is a comprehensive, user-friendly and hands-on book that is a single source of reference of tools and techniques for all quality practitioners.