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.
Why You’re Not Getting Real-Time Visibility Into Continuous Improvement (and What You Can Do About It)
Only 30% of performance improvement initiatives succeed. Explore our top 3 suggestions to manage projects efficiently, consistently and successfully.
5 Challenges that Keep Even the Best Project Deployments in the Shadows
Learn 5 reasons why assessing the cumulative impact in continuous improvement programs is difficult, even when organizations have robust initiatives.
What Would You Do with an Extra 120 Hours to Drive Improvement?
Explore 3 key insights by a VP of quality for a $1.5 billion-dollar corporation about managing continuous improvement projects with Companion by Minitab.
Got a Flurry of Project Ideas? Let’s Look at How Steering Committees Work in Engage
Companion by Minitab now has options for multiple SteerCos, or steering committees, to route project ideas appropriately.
DMAIC vs. DMADV vs. DFSS: A Guide on Six Sigma Terminology
Learn the steps of Six Sigma abbreviations like DMAIC, DMADV and DFSS and how Minitab Engage process improvement software can help track any project using them.
Improve Your Production Stability for Competitive Manufacturing with Minitab Engage
Parts are to be manufactured to specifications. Unstable behaviours generate quality problems experienced by customers later on. This article touches on why and how to reduce instability with a structured quality and problem-solving approach such as DMAIC applied using the modern toolkit of Minitab.
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.
Sealing Up Patient Safety with Monte Carlo Simulation
If you have a process that isn’t meeting specifications, using the Monte Carlo simulation and optimization tools in Companion by Minitab can help. Here’s how you, as an engineer in the medical device industry, could use Companion to improve a packaging process and help ensure patient safety.
3 Big Lessons from Continuous Improvement Leaders at PEX Europe Spring, London
At Process Excellence (PEX) Europe Spring 2018 there was a lot to learn as Continuous Improvement practitioners and leaders met to 'share and challenge everything you need to be a business of the future.' Here Minitab shares three key CI lessons that will help you to replicate success.