Using My Fitness Tracker's Data To Get A Superhero-Inspired Physique
Analyzing two year's of fitness tracker data on her exercise workouts - durations, types and calories burnt - Eugenie Chung, our Technical Specialist, used Minitab Statistical Software to answer: does adding resistance training improve her daily calories burnt compared to focusing on pure cardio?
Using Intervals to Get at the Tail Ends of the Problem in Healthcare and Medical Devices
Demonstrating process improvement often involves showing improvement in the mean, so we focus on the center of a distribution. Defects don’t fall in the center, though. They're in the tails.
When It’s Easier to Open Data in Minitab than in Excel
Find out how Minitab makes it easy to work with data in formats like txt, dat, and csv so that you don’t have to use more than one program.
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 VP Greg Kinsey: Black Belts Can (and Should) Drive the Digital Transformation of Manufacturing
Greg Kinsey, Vice President 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 VP
Greg Kinsey, Vice President 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.