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Six Sigma The word "Six Sigma" is a statistical measure of faulty parts per million pieces manufactured. It refers to both products and business processes. The concept of Six Sigma signifies the attainment of a nearly perfect high-quality control level of 99.99999 percent! meaning that there are only ".# defects per million parts. This level has emerged as the benchmar$ for high quality-fewer than ".% defects per million.