六西格玛是美国人在全面质量管理基础上发展起来的。朱兰、费根堡姆于20世纪60年代提出了全面质量管理的概念。他们提出，为了生产具有合理成本和较高质量的产品，以适应市场的要求，只注意个别部门的活动是不够的，需要对覆盖所有职能部门的质量活动进行策划。-Six Sigma is the Americans in the total quality management developed on the basis of. Juran, Feigenbaum 60s in the 20th century put forward the concept of total quality management. They proposed that in order to produce a reasonable cost and higher quality products to meet market requirements and only pay attention to the activities of individual departments is not enough, need to cover all functional departments of the quality planning activities.