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.
5 Takeaways from Rolls-Royce's Master Black Belt interview on data-driven Process Excellence
How the Central Process Excellence team facilitates improvement at Rolls-Royce: skillset, methods, tools and capabilities by Colin Noone, Master Black Belt
Critical Checks for Pharmaceuticals and Healthcare: Validating Your Data Integrity and Process Performance
When regulators in pharmaceutical & healthcare ask you to validate analytical techniques, measurement systems ('Data Integrity') and process performance ('SPC'), Minitab recommends these critical checks.
Using My Fitness Tracker's Data To Get A Superhero-Inspired Physique
Analyzing two year's of fitness tracker data using Minitab Statistical Software to answer: does adding resistance training improve calories burnt compared to pure cardio?
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.
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.
How Can You Fix the Process and Improve Product Development with Simulated Data? See All the Scenarios with Monte Carlo
How do you commit to realistic forecasts and timelines when resources are limited or gathering real data is too expensive or impractical? Can simulated data be trusted for accurate predictions? That’s when Monte Carlo Simulation comes in. Check out this step-by-step guide.
Step 1: Pinpoint Waste. Step 2: Deal with It. 5 More Critical Lean Tools
Step 1: Pinpoint Waste. Step 2: Deal with It. 5 More Critical Lean Tools