Integrate Feedback and Data Analysis to Design Medical Devices Quickly
How does a medical device manufacturer bring clinical-grade personal protection equipment to market fast? Putting Minitab and Workspace, well, to work.
The 4 Simple Steps for Creating a Monte Carlo Simulation with Companion or Workspace
Learn the 4 simple steps to creating a Monte Carlo Simulation with Minitab Companion or Workspace.
How Can You Tell if Your Lean Six Sigma Project is Set Up for Success?
Learn from a survey of companies across the US what they believed granted the success of their Lean Six Sigma, OPEX, and continuous improvement programs.
Minitab and Excel: 3 Tips for Importing Data
Follow these tips to get your data from Excel into Minitab and make your analysis easier. Learn to copy and paste, import data and fix column formats.
How to Choose the Best Regression Model
Choosing the correct linear regression model can be difficult. Trying to model it with only a sample doesn’t make it any easier. In this post, I'll review some common statistical methods for selecting models, complications you may face, and provide some practical advice for choosing the best regression model.
Punxsutawney Phil and His 2-Sample T-test
Although a polar vortex hit most of the northern United States last week, thousands of visitors did converge on Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania to see if Punxsutawney Phil would see his shadow. Let’s look at a 2-sample t-test to see if Phil can be Punxsutawney’s chief advisor on how quickly winter ends.
Five Guidelines You Need to Follow to Create an Effective Value Stream Map
Value stream mapping is a cornerstone of the Lean process improvement methodology, and also is a recognized tool used in Six Sigma. A value stream map illustrates the flow of materials and information as a product or service moves through a process. Creating a “current state” value stream map can help you identify waste and also makes it easier to envision an improved state for process in the future.
Process Validation Tools For Clinical Approval: An Example For Passing the 3 FDA Stage Goals
The FDA recommends three stages for process validation. Let’s explore the stage goals and the types of activities and statistical techniques typically conducted within each. You can use Minitab Statistical Software to run any of the analyses here. If you don’t yet have Minitab, try it free for 30 days.
Concluding Our Golf DOE: Time to Quantify, Understand and Optimize
Last week on The Minitab Blog, we used Minitab Statistical Software to review analysis of covariance (ANCOVA) and blocking variables in our ongoing design of experiment (DOE) on how to get the longest drive in your golf game. Now let’s finish it. We’re ready to review and present our results.
ANCOVA and Blocking: 2 Vital Parts to DOE
Previously in our Minitab designed experiment on driving the golf ball as far as possible from the tee, we tested our four experimental factors and determined how many runs we needed to produce a complete data set. Now let’s analyze the data and interpret the covariates and blocking variables.