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please update your RSS feeds
2007-06-04 18:02:00 Can I please ask all my readers to update their RSS feeds? My new site is learnsigma.com [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] More About: Update , Lease , Ease
Update your links/bookmarks to leansigma.wordpress.com
2007-05-20 19:01:00 I'm in the process of migrating this blog over to the following address: leansigma.wordpress.com New posts will appear on leansigma.wordpress.com and not here! Please update your bookmarks and links. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] More About: Wordpress , Links , Update , Sigma , Mark
What is multi-vari analysis?
2007-05-19 18:05:00 Wikipedia says that: Multi variate analysis (MVA) is based on the statistical principle of multivariate statistics, which involves observation and analysis of more than one statistical variable at a... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] More About: Analysis , Vari , Anal
Six sigma leadership
2007-05-12 20:05:00 Two six sigma quotes I highlighted to myself recently. The first was from The Six Sigma Lead er by Peter Pande: ?Studies have repeatedly shown that the high failure rate of many promising leaders is... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] More About: Leadership , Six Sigma , Ship
Anderson-Darling Normality Test
2007-05-05 10:17:00 Using the Anderson -Darling Normality test helps to determine if different sets of data are normally distributed. You will never know if the POPULATION can fit a Gaussian distribution, you are only... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] More About: Test , Arli , Ality
Great Links - Free Resources!
2007-05-04 15:02:00 Some great links to I've spotted: openlearn is an opportunity for informal study ? in your own time access materials in areas familiar or new to you, without the pressure of keeping to a timetable... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] More About: Resources , Free , Links , Great , Resource
Deming Chain Reaction
2007-05-02 18:01:00 You took a mystery and made me want it You got a pedestal and put me on it You made me love you out of feeling nothing Something that you do These are the words to the song, Chai n Reaction. However,... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] More About: Deming , Ming , Demi
A bloodbath to finally dent America's love affair with guns?
2007-04-25 22:07:00 Will the Virginia Tech bloodbath finally dent America's love affair with guns? Unlikely: as the culture is simply too entrenched. America is a country, after all, where the thoroughly liberal... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] More About: Love , Guns , Fair , Blood , Finally
Why are Italians we so easily blackmailed?
2007-04-25 21:56:00 No other country besides Italy gives in so easily to blackmail. It readily stumps up huge sums in ransoms or insists that terrorists be handed over to get hostages released. Last month, for example,... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] More About: Toyota , Blackmail , Lack , Italians
A lunatic extremist fringe
2007-04-25 21:50:00 Fanatics have a habit of undermining their own cause: just look at animal liberationists, and how their gruesome antics diverted attention from worthwhile campaigns aimed at factory farming. A... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] More About: Extremist , Ring , Fringe , Luna , Mist
Introduction to Box Plots
2007-04-25 18:09:00 An essential part of any Belt training, box plots provide an excellent visual summary of many important aspects of a distribution. The box represents the middle 50% of the data; the whiskers the... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] More About: Introduction , Intro , Plot
A simple intro to DMAIC
2007-04-25 13:53:00 This is a portion of an introduction to Six Sigma strategies video from APS. It explains Six Sigma's DMAIC strategy in simple non-technical terms using the familiar setting of a pizza restaurant... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] More About: Simple , Intro
Cp / Cpk (again)
2007-04-13 17:43:00 If the calculated Cpk value is 2 then you are doing very, very well if you are a service or transactional organisation. Go celebrate! What is Cpk?[via FoxyTunes / Six Sigma] [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] More About: Again
PDCA is dead?
2007-04-12 23:46:00 The PDCA (or PDSA) Cycle was originally conceived by Walter Shewhart in 1930's, and later adopted by W. Edwards Deming. The model provides a framework for the improvement of a process or system. It... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] More About: Dead
Innovation and how to attain error rates equal to one in six million
2007-04-10 11:52:00 A couple of blog articles caught my eye today. The first from Seth Godin who suggests that by creating a flat organization and building (customer) relationships you can attain error rates equal to... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] More About: How To , Innovation , Lion , Equal , Error
29 Leadership Secrets from Jack Welch
2007-04-09 14:12:00 29 Leadership Secret s from Jack Welch is the first concise book of essential Welch-isms, abridged from the bestselling "Get Better or Get Beaten". Jack Welch built a career out of fighting waste. "29... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] More About: Secrets , Ship
Six Sigma Way: How GE, Motorola, and Other Top Companies Are Honing Their P
2007-04-09 14:12:00 Six Sigma Way: How GE, Motor ola , and Other Top Comp anies Are Honing Their Performance presents an implementation blueprint for SIX SIGMA. ""The Six Sigma Way" demystifies Six Sigma with a real-world... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Cause & Effect Diagrams
2007-04-08 20:37:00 AKA Fishbone Diagrams or Ishikawa Diagrams Kaoru Ishikawa pioneered the cause and effect diagram to explore all the potential causes that result in a single effect. Description: The fishbone... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] More About: Effect , Cause , Agra , Grams , Gram
"Great " Lean Manufacturing Blog
2007-04-06 10:49:00 This is a brief post to alert readers of this blog to my Lean Manufacturing blog: www.63buckets.co.uk It covers all aspects of Lean Manufacturing and is slowly getting ever more popular. Please pay... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] More About: Blog , Great , Fact , Ring
Zero Defects - Zero Sense
2007-04-05 15:06:00 ?The quality manager must be clear, right from the start, that zero defects is not a motivation program. Its purpose is to communicate to all employees the literal meaning of the words ?zero defects?... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] More About: Sense , Zero , Ense , Sens , Defect
Six Sigma and Multitasking
2007-03-29 18:12:00 I've mentioned before that Six Sigma certainly has its critics, and here are some more: almost five dozen companies that have adopted Six Sigma and found that the vast majority have underperformed... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] More About: Skin , Multi , King
Deming on YouTube!
2007-03-29 13:42:00 Tags: deming [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] More About: Youtube , Tube , Deming , Ming , Demi
Cp and Cpk
2007-03-29 13:42:00 Tags: process+capability [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
The essence of six sigma!
2007-03-29 13:42:00 I think this YouTube video says it all really! Tags: video, six+sigma [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] More About: Esse , Sigma , Six Sigma
Process Capability
2007-03-27 08:00:00 Cp index Cp index is a statistical measure of process capability. This means that it is a measure of how capable a process is of producing output within specification limits. This measurement only... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] More About: Proc , Bili , Process , Capa
Six Sigma is a marketing ploy
2007-03-21 18:18:00 Apparently Six Sigma is a marketing ploy First, it offers easy money, because both the training and qualification are controlled as though the concepts are unique and innovative and can only be... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] More About: Marketing , Market , Mark , Six Sigma
Is six sigma logical? updated 11/03/07
2007-03-11 10:28:00 From Wikipedia: In logic, an argument is an attempt to demonstrate the truth of an assertion called a conclusion, based on the truth of a set of assertions called premises. The process of... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] More About: Update , Sigma , Six Sigma , Logic , Logical
Free six sigma publications
2007-03-08 20:45:00 Scribd is a free online library where anyone can upload documents. I found the followng: Introduction to Engineering Statistics and Six Sigma Statistical Quality Control and Design of Experiments... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] More About: Cat , Public , Free , Publications
Kano model
2007-02-28 13:53:00 The Kano model is a theory of product development developed in the 80's by Professor Noriaki Kano which classifies customer preferences into five categories: Attractive quality: Attractive quality... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] More About: Model
Lean six sigma under attack
More articles from this author:2007-02-24 10:33:00 Ouch! I've written about lean six sigma before and suggested that these two methods can be merged. However, over on the gembapantarei blog others disagree quite strongly: So Lean Six Sigma is... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] More About: Six Sigma , Under , Attack 1, 2 |
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