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Edition 6 of our bestselling book for Lean and Six Sigma professionals is now available! Lean Six Sigma and Minitab has sold over 170,000 copies worldwide since it was first published in 2004 and has become the book for all business [...]
Earlier this year we worked with Institute of Technology Sligo and their designers to produce this customised edition for their 2019 students. IT Sligo offer a range of accredited and award winning courses in Lean Six Sigma from Yellow [...]
The Six Sigma toolkit includes a large range of graphs, from Histograms to Pareto Charts, and from Box plots to Scatter plots. They can all be found in Minitab, and can often be created in a click of a [...]
Six Sigma provides a large range of tools and techniques that can be used within the Analyse phase. The challenge therefore, becomes knowing which tool to use when! The phrases Process Door and Data Door are a useful way [...]
Edition 5 of our best selling Lean Six Sigma and Minitab book has been released and is now available to order in German! Working in partnership with Merck (KGaA) and ADDITIVE the book has been fully translated, including all of [...]
So what is Sigma Shift and what does it mean for you? Processes tend to behave differently over the short and long terms. For example, they might be stable and predictable over just a few minutes or hours (ie. [...]
Problem Statements are one of the most powerful tools in the Six Sigma tool kit (and there are no statistics involved!) A problem statement is a short but concise description of a problem. In just 2-3 sentences, a problem [...]
Q: Minitab and Six Sigma are often mentioned in the same breath, but what does Minitab actually do? A: Minitab is a software package that helps you to analyse data. Analysing data is an important part of Six Sigma [...]
What are KPI Trees? KPI Trees are a graphical method of managing KPIs. They are essentially a tree diagram, on which KPIs are positioned in order that there is a clear structure amongst them. Modern organisations often have lots [...]
