Design Excellence comes into play when you are starting a process from scratch or building a new space. Its tools and methodologies give you a more accurate picture of your space requirements and ensure that best practices are built into your process from the beginning.
Design Excellence drives performance by design. This disciplined approach and investment in the design phase predicts the success of a change or innovation before it is implemented using verification and validation tools.
Design Excellence is a process for ensuring that your new operation will incorporate these proven principles of Lean and Six Sigma.
DMADV =
Define > Measure > Analyze > Design > Verify/Validate

| Define | Develop business case and scope, and charter the project. |
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| Measure | Gather and quantify design inputs. |
| Analyze | Develop and investigate conceptual design. |
| Design | Develop detailed product designs, production and/or service processes. |
| Verify/Validate | Confirm design outputs meet design input requirements and ensure specifications conform with intended use and users. |


