Who Sets Your Specification Limits?
A QI Macros customer called to ask how he could figure out the specification limits to give him a Cp/Cpk of 1.33. What’s wrong with this question? The answer is obvious isn’t it?
Improvement Insights Blog
Latest "Six Sigma" Posts
Lean Six Sigma Meets the Blah Blahmeter
Is the foggy complexity of Lean Six Sigma preventing widespread adoption? I think it is:
Learn more about Dan Roam’s Blah Blahmeter here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6kmObnh2jo
Solutions Masquerading as Root Causes
Does Your Root Cause Analysis Fail The Last Why Because It Presupposes A Solution?
Making Process Improvements Stick
The Nov-Dec 2018 HBR reports that Lean, Six Sigma and Agile “always work well initially, but often the gains fade quickly.”
- 21% of improvement projects failed to yield any improvements
- Only one-third of improvements continued to yield results after two years.
What’s needed to sustain improvements?
- Consistent measurement and monitoring (i.e., control charts)
- Leadership support and coaching
- Avoid initiative fatigue caused by jumping from one improvement initiative to another.
Start monitoring your improvement projects using QI Macros control charts.
Download a free trial at https://www.qimacros.com.
Great Training Robbery
Consultants, trainers and professors are wasting students’ time on things they don’t need to know to solve problems they don’t have to impress people they don’t like.
The One Thing
In the movie City Slickers, Jack Palance gives Billy Crystal some advice that applies to Lean Six Sigma. Do you know what it is?
Have Your Processes Turned Into Frankenprocesses?
Here’s how to deal with the creature you’ve created.
Continue Reading "Have Your Processes Turned Into Frankenprocesses?"
Quality 4.0
Software automation is connecting everything in the supply chain. Smart devices are collecting information constantly and feeding to artificial intelligence engines to maximize profits and minimize costs. What does this mean for quality professionals?
Run Charts vs Control Charts
Run charts used to be a bridge to control charts. You no longer need to build a bridge. Just start with Control Charts.
