Minitab® and Lean Six Sigma: A Guide to Improve Business Performance Metrics (ePub)

In 377 pages, this book

Shows the execution of Minitab functions in a detailed Lean Six Sigma Define-Measure-Analyze-Improve-Control (DMAIC) roadmap to enhance the Y response for process improvement projects

Shows use of a free software app for response-metric tracking that provides insight not possible with traditional metric reporting techniques

Utilizes over 50 datasets to illustrate Y-response tracking from a process-output perspective and Y=f(X) analyses

Discusses over 200 figures that illustrate software inputs and outputs

Provides a clickable Lean Six Sigma Define-Measure-Analyze-Improve-Control (DMAIC) process-improvement roadmap that integrates the application of Lean and Six Sigma tools so that the right tool is used at the right time when undertaking process improvement efforts

Shows a methodology for Lean Six Sigma improvement project selection so that the organization's big-picture benefits from the project's completion

Provides a method to statistically show and quantify at the 30,000-foot-level the benefits of process improvement efforts

Offers a business process improvement system that goes beyond traditional Lean Six Sigma and the Balanced Scorecard

Explains a method for executing and enhancing digital transformation efforts in an organization

This book provides direction on how organizations can resolve issues that commonly occur with

Traditional control charts and process capability reporting techniques

AQL testing and reporting

Lean Six Sigma deployments

This book provides direction on how organizations can benefit from the wise application of:

Statistical and non-statistical techniques

Design of Experiments (DOE) in both manufacturing and transactional processes

This book provides a comprehensive 9-step system that CEOs, presidents, general managers, executives, managers, leaders, practitioners, and others can use to resolve elephant-in-the-room management issues such as

Business goals not being met

Scorecards leading to harmful, if not destructive, behaviors

Persistent day-to-day firefighting problems

Business strategies that are very generic and difficult to translate into organizational work environments

Lean events and other improvement projects can consume many resources but often do not offer a quantifiable benefit to the business as a whole

Lean Six Sigma process improvement deployments that have improvement projects, which are either not completed in a timely fashion or which make substantial financial claims that are questionable

This book describes the application and how to use of the following tools in Minitab as part of a Lean Six Sigma Define-Measure-Analyze-Improve-Control (DMAIC) roadmap

Time-series plot

Histogram

Dot plot

Descriptive statistics

Pareto chart

Probability plot

X-bar and R control chart

P-chart

Process capability indices

30,000-foot-level reports

Cause-and-effect diagram

Visualization of data

Multi-vari chart

Hypothesis testing

Inferences: continuous data

Inferrences: attribute data

Comparing two samples

Demonstration of process metric output response improvement

Variance components

Correlation

Simple regression

Residuals

Single factor ANOVA

ANOM

Two factor ANOVA

Multiple regression

Binary Logistic regression

General Linear Model (GLM)

Design of Experiments (DOE)

Response surface methodology (RSM)

Control phase - maintain the gain

Offers a methodology to implement Deming's management philosophy, ISO 9000, Baldrige award criteria & Shingo Prize criteria