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Save the Turkeys!

What do you do about an ammonia spill in a monstrous freezer filled with turkeys and chicken? I used the QI Macros Stat Wizard to save $3,000,000 in frozen poultry. Here’s how:

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“Hi, I’m Jay Arthur, author of “Lean Six Sigma Demystified” and QI Macros [software].

“Last year, I had an opportunity to work with a company that handles frozen poultry: turkeys, chickens, things of that nature. They had had an ammonia spill inside one of these big, huge freezers where they keep stuff.

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My First Statistics Project

In my 30+ years in quality improvement, I finally got to use basic statistics to save millions of dollars. And it was easy. Here’s how:



“Hi, I’m Jay Arthur, author of “Lean Six Sigma Demystified” and QI Macros [software].

“I recently had a chance to help a food company that had frozen meats of various kinds – you know, poultry and so on – and they’d had a chemical spill. Well, what the USDA wanted them to do was prove that it had not affected their food and so somehow I got called in to help with that.

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