4 Challenges to Improving Stability in Manufacturing, and How You Can Face Them
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.
Raising the Bar for Employee Skills is Not Optional
The skills to understand and work with data — and make educated decisions based on it — are in demand and they are not going away anytime soon. Look at some new directions in the workforce over the last few years and how executives are treating upskilling their teams as a top priority.
7 Top Talks from the Minitab Insights Conference
See what goes into a great Minitab Insights Conference presentation. Great stories others want to hear. Discovering new tools in Minitab software. Engaging walkthroughs of finding insights in your data, and recommendations on how to act on them. All packed into a few days of learning and fun.
Taking Machine Learning from Myths to Business Reality
You now see “Machine Learning” appearing along with “Big Data”, “AI” or “Internet of Things” as part of the digital transformation of business. Yet this new hype is creating a series of myths, which can obscure the role of data-driven professionals in this transformation. Watch our webinar today.
Hitachi's Industry Executive Greg Kinsey: Black Belts Can (and Should) Drive the Digital Transformation of Manufacturing
Greg Kinsey, Industry Executive at Hitachi, is the Keynote speaker at the new Minitab Insights Conferences in Dublin in October and in Zurich in November. Learn why you need to hear Greg’s view on the Future of Operational Excellence and the new role of Lean Six Sigma – and how you can be part of it.
A Quality Career: Dr Rozzeta Dolah Part 2
To celebrate Minitab’s support of the recent International Conference on Teaching Statistics in Kyoto, Japan, we sat down with Dr Rozzeta Dolah, whose career and work in statistics and engineering has taken her to her native Malaysia, to Japan and then the USA where she is currently working at MIT.
The Future of Operational Excellence according to Hitachi's Industry Executive
Greg Kinsey, Industry Executive at Hitachi, is the Keynote speaker at the new Minitab Insights Conferences in Dublin on 6 November 2018. Learn why you need to hear Greg’s view on the Future of Operational Excellence and the new role of Lean Six Sigma – and how you can be part of it.
A Quality Career: Dr Rozzeta Dolah Part 1
To celebrate Minitab’s support of the recent International Conference on Teaching Statistics in Kyoto, Japan, we sat down with Dr Rozzeta Dolah, whose career and work in statistics and engineering has taken her to her native Malaysia, to Japan and then the USA where she is currently working at MIT.
Guest Post: How quickly and effectively can you drive to a solution?
Deductive logic has been used for millennia to describe the natural world. With the explosion of data availability and machine learning, some suggest inductive reasoning will make deduction obsolete – the end of science. An approach that supports learning and drives toward a solution involves both.
Beyond the Hype: Machine Learning for Manufacturing Performance
Machine learning utilizes analytical data to discover insights that can create a more efficient manufacturing process and solve problems in a matter of seconds. These tools can be used in countless constructive ways in the manufacturing industry.