Minitab�� and Lean Six Sigma

<p>This 377 page book</p><ul><li>Shows the execution of Minitab functions in a detailed Lean Six Sigma Define-Measure-Analyze-Improve-Control (DMAIC) roadmap to enhance the Y response for process improvement projects</li><li>Shows use of a free software app for response-metric tracking that provides insight not possible with traditional metric reporting techniques</li><li>Utilizes over 50 datasets to illustrate Y-response tracking from a process-output perspective and Y=f(X) analyses</li><li>Discusses over 200 figures that illustrate software inputs and outputs</li><li>Provides a clickable Lean Six Sigma Define-Measure-Analyze-Improve-Control (DMAIC) process-improvement roadmap that integrates the application of Lean and Six Sigma tools so that the right tool is used at the right time when undertaking process improvement efforts</li><li>Shows a methodology for Lean Six Sigma improvement project selection so that the organization's big-picture benefits from the project���s completion</li><li>Provides a method to statistically show and quantify at the 30000-foot-level the benefits of process improvement efforts</li><li>Offers a business process improvement system that goes beyond traditional Lean Six Sigma and the Balanced Scorecard</li><li>Explains a method for executing and enhancing digital transformation efforts in an organization</li></ul><p>This book provides direction on how organizations can resolve issues that commonly occur with:</p><ul><li>Traditional control charts and process capability reporting techniques</li><li>AQL testing and reporting</li><li>Lean Six Sigma deployments</li></ul><p>This book provides direction on how organizations can benefit from the <em>wise</em> application of:</p><ul><li>Statistical and non-statistical techniques.</li><li>Design of Experiments (DOE) in both manufacturing and transactional processes.</li></ul><p>This book provides a comprehensive 9-step system that CEOs presidents general managers executives managers leaders practitioners and others can use to resolve elephant-in-the-room management issues such as:</p><ul><li>Business goals not being met</li><li>Scorecards leading to harmful if not destructive behaviors</li><li>Persistent day-to-day firefighting problems</li><li>Business strategies that are very generic and difficult to translate into organizational work environments</li><li>Lean events and other improvement projects can consume many resources but often do not offer a quantifiable benefit to the business as a whole</li><li>Lean Six Sigma process improvement deployments that have improvement projects which are either not completed in a timely fashion or which make substantial financial claims that are questionable</li></ul><p>This book describes the application and how to use of the following tools in Minitab as part of a Lean Six Sigma Define-Measure-Analyze-Improve-Control (DMAIC) roadmap </p><ul><li>Time-series plot</li><li>Histogram</li><li>Dot plot</li><li>Descriptive statistics</li><li>Pareto chart</li><li>Probability plot</li><li>X-bar and R control chart</li><li>P-chart</li><li>Process capability indices</li><li>30000-foot-level reports</li><li>Cause-and-effect diagram</li><li>Visualization of data</li><li>Multi-vari chart</li><li>Hypothesis testing</li><li>Inferences: continuous data</li><li>Inferences: attribute data</li><li>Comparing two samples</li><li>Demonstration of process metric output response improvement</li><li>Variance components</li><li>Correlation</li><li>Simple regression</li><li>Residuals</li><li>Single factor ANOVA</li><li>ANOM</li><li>Two factor ANOVA</li><li>Multiple regression</li><li>Binary Logistic regression</li><li>General Linear Model (GLM)</li><li>Design of Experiments (DOE)</li><li>Response surface methodology (RSM)</li><li>Control phase - maintain the gain</li></ul><p>Offers a methodology to implement Deming's management philosophy ISO 9000 Baldrige award criteria & Shingo Prize criteria.</p>