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Here are our top picks for Lean Six Sigma success stories and news from around the web for the week of September 19, 2016. In-house: Managing Like A Business The Royal Dutch Shell's legal department is filled with thousand of professionals and much larger than many others. However, more…
Be happy that "Lean Six Sigma is being adopted by more and more health care practitioners, including hospitals, clinics, and individual physicians, not to mention pharmaceutical and medical device makers." To improve healthcare, we can reduce surgical wait time, see more patients quickly, reduce nurse overtime and avoid added expenses!…
Here are our top picks for Lean Six Sigma success stories and news from around the web for the week of May 30, 2016. The Taylor Reach Group Extends Their Call Center Reach to Memphis, Tennessee The Taylor Reach Group, Inc. is warming up to the idea of Lean Six…
What's a Scatter Plot? A Scatter Plot is a chart that shows the relationship between two variables (if any). A Scatter Plot is also known as an XY Plot since the variables are plotted on the X and Y axis. The strength of correlation on a Scatter Plot can be…
What is a Run Chart? A Run chart is a graph that displays data in sequence over time. This kind of chart can display continuous or discrete data and generally appears with a median or average line. Learn more about Run Charts in Green Belt Training. How to Create a Run Chart in Minitab Download the GoLeanSixSigma.com Run Chart Data…
What's a Pareto Chart? A Pareto Chart is a quality chart of discrete data that helps identify the most significant types of defect occurrences. It does this by showing both frequency of occurrences (bar graph) and cumulative total of occurrences (line graph) on a single chart. The type of occurrences…
What's a Histogram? Histograms are frequency charts. In Lean Six Sigma, they show the distribution of values produced by a process. In other words, a histogram is a visual display of how much variation exists in a process. Learn more about Histograms in Green Belt Training. How to Create a Histogram in Minitab Download the…
What's a Box Plot? A Box Plot is a graphical view of a data set which involves a center box containing 50% of the data and “whiskers” which each represent 25% of the data. It divides the distribution of a data set into four portions: the lower “whisker” contains the first…
What's Design of Experiments - Full Factorial in Minitab? DOE, or Design of Experiments is an active method of manipulating a process as opposed to passively observing a process. DOE enables operators to evaluate the changes occurring in the output (Y Response,) of a process while changing one or more…