{"id":6007,"date":"2022-10-04T01:00:39","date_gmt":"2022-10-04T07:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/?p=6007"},"modified":"2022-09-14T15:22:01","modified_gmt":"2022-09-14T21:22:01","slug":"5th-grade-vision-problems-and-six-sigma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/5th-grade-vision-problems-and-six-sigma\/","title":{"rendered":"5th Grade Vision Problems and Six Sigma"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>I didn&#8217;t know I couldn&#8217;t see that well until 5th grade. I didn&#8217;t know I couldn&#8217;t see how businesses worked until I learned three key tools.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/748074424?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0\" width=\"720\" height=\"405\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>&#8220;Hi, I\u2019m Jay Arthur, author of \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Lean-Six-Sigma-Demystified-Second\/dp\/0071749098\/\">Lean Six Sigma Demystified<\/a>\u201d and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/demo\/\">QI Macros [software]<\/a>.<\/p>\r\n<p>&#8220;I grew up in Tucson, Arizona and went to <a href=\"https:\/\/howelles.tusd1.org\/\">Peter E. Howell elementary<\/a>, for those of you who might have gone there. 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Well, when I put these on\u2026 oh my gosh! The clarity, the crispness, the sharpness of everything just exploded! I mean, it was just amazing!<\/p>\r\n<p>&#8220;I remember having the same experience when I used <a href=\"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/control-chart\/\">control charts<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/pareto-chart-excel\/\">Pareto charts<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/histogram-excel\/\">histograms<\/a> and it made something invisible visible; it made it a way that I could explain to other people quickly. It&#8217;s not that hard, all control charts look the same, right? Pareto charts are Pareto charts, Histograms are histograms. You learn those three tools and you&#8217;re pretty much set. I mean, there&#8217;s other tools, yes, but those three will cover most of the bases we need to cover in Lean and Six Sigma.<\/p>\r\n<p>&#8220;So that&#8217;s my Improvement Insight for this week: Start using control charts, Pareto charts, histograms. 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