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• Statistical Process Control for Right-Brain Thinkers “Stand firm in your refusal to remain conscious during algebra. In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.” — Fran LebowitzKnown for her sardonic wit, perhaps the social commentator, Fran Lebowitz, did not intend for this bit of advice to teens to be taken literally. Nevertheless, I submit that it elicits a grin from many who are well beyond their teens because it rings....Read more

  Contributor:  Lon Roberts Tags: SPC system | statistical process control system | statistical process control 02/17/2009  5:07:00 PM EST

• Statistical Process Control—The Alpha and Omega of Six Sigma, Part 2: Tracking Process Behavior Using Control Charts Commonly-Used Control Charts This is the second in a four-part series on Statistical Process Control (SPC). In our first article, we discussed the origins of Statistical Process Control and its impact on the history of the Quality movement, including Six Sigma. In this article, we examine the use and interpretation of a few of the most commonly-used control charts in the Statistical Process Control ....Read more

  Contributor:  Rip Stauffer Tags: control limit | run chart | Six Sigma 10/16/2009  12:00:00 AM EDT

• Statistical Process Control, The Alpha and Omega of Six Sigma—Part 1: The Origin Story This is the first in a four-part series on Statistical Process Control (SPC), which is the foundation for Six Sigma, providing the best known method for capturing the Voice of the Process and using data to manage a process. Organizations that practice Statistical Process Control as part of a comprehensive quality management system will identify required Six Sigma Projects and Kaizen events more read....Read more

  Contributor:  Rip Stauffer Tags: Statistical Process Control | Voice of the Process | control chart 10/12/2009  12:00:00 AM EDT

• The Hottest Six Sigma Quality Improvement Topic: Making Front-line Managers Responsible for Collecting, Analyzing and Tracking Net Promoter Scores New studies and books say front-line executives must be responsible for obtaining customer feedback and crafting solutions to identified problems. These studies and books also ridicule lengthy marketing research studies about customer satisfaction—especially when there is no plan or organizational mechanism to get the study off the shelf and into front-line action. In short, unless the Six Sig....Read more

  Contributor:  Process Excellence Network Tags: front-line managers | customer feedback | metric 06/22/2009  12:00:00 AM EDT

• Abandoning the Obsolete and Unproductive: A Difficult but Necessary Task Editor's note: Pareto’s law suggests that most aggregate statistics relating to business/organizational situations misrepresent, misdirect and misinform. Aggregated activities in any endeavor conceal the ratio between efforts and results. Pareto's law assists Six Sigma management practitioners to recognize the inadequacy of information in key activities and helps to focus on those elements that produc....Read more

  Contributor:  From the Editorial Staff at e-BIM Tags: aggregate statistics | Pareto’s law | change management 11/17/2008  10:58:00 AM EST

• Running Late: Some Statistics on Marathon Pacing Feel like you're running flat out? Columnist Robin Barnwell develops a prediction model to better judge pacing and target times as he analyzes data from London marathons past in preparation for his own run this year. I’m running the London Marathon this year and what’s top of my mind is my target finish time. This is my first full marathon having previously done half marathons. I&rsqu....Read more

  Contributor:   Tags: marathon running | Robin Barnwell 01/31/2012  12:00:00 AM EST

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