Ordering During Office Closure
Our offices will be closed Monday 22/10/2018 - Friday 26/10/2018. Please be aware that any orders placed during this time will not be processed and shipped until our return on Monday 29/10/18.
Quentin Brook to guest present Minitab ‘Need to Knows’ Webinar Series
We're proud to announce that Quentin Brook, author of our bestselling Lean Six Sigma and Minitab book, will be presenting a series of three webinars on behalf of Minitab entitled 'Minitab Need to Knows' The webinars are designed for beginners and [...]
Lean Six Sigma and Minitab released in German!
Edition 5 of our best selling Lean Six Sigma and Minitab book is now available for pre-order in German! Working in partnership with Merck (KGaA) and ADDITIVE the book has been fully translated, including all of the Minitab screenshots and [...]
Edition 5 of the best selling ‘Lean Six Sigma and Minitab’ released
Edition 5 of our best selling book for Lean and Six Sigma professionals is now available for pre-order, with first shipments on the 1st October 2017! Lean Six Sigma and Minitab has sold over 150,000 copies worldwide since it was first published [...]
OPEX launch new website!
If you're reading this, then you're using our new website! Launched in February 2017, our new site is a step change - with a completely new feel and graphics. In particular, the new site provides: An upgraded shopping [...]
How to get the most out of your graphical analysis
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 [...]
The Process Door and Data Door
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 [...]
Understanding your real Sigma Shift
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. short [...]
The power of problem statements
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 [...]
What is Minitab and why it is so important?
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 [...]