{"id":7101,"date":"2024-12-03T01:00:34","date_gmt":"2024-12-03T08:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/?p=7101"},"modified":"2024-12-19T14:52:38","modified_gmt":"2024-12-19T21:52:38","slug":"you-can-use-the-methods-and-tools-of-quality-improvement-anywhere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/you-can-use-the-methods-and-tools-of-quality-improvement-anywhere\/","title":{"rendered":"You Can Use the Methods and Tools of Quality Improvement Anywhere"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>In college, I spent four years studying Systems Engineering. The methods and tools of quality improvement are what I use instead. Here&#8217;s why:<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/994521287?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;I&#8217;m 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;When I went to college I studied <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Systems_engineering\">systems engineering<\/a>, which is the mathematical optimization of systems, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Operations_research\">operations research<\/a> (things of that nature), which is for solving very complicated problems like transportation or whatever. It wasn&#8217;t until I got into Quality Improvement, where I found a simplified set of tools that I could use in everyday life, that I really started to figure out how best to start to simplify, streamline and optimize systems: Better, faster, cheaper; free, perfect and now. There is an opportunity to use these tools.<\/p>\r\n<p>&#8220;Now, I learned all that stuff and\u2026oh my gosh, differential equations, Laplace transforms, all kinds of stuff I never use. But I use the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/quality-tools\/7-quality-control-tools\/\">Tools of Quality<\/a> all the time. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/quality-tools\/value-stream-map\/\">Value stream mapping<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/quality-tools\/spaghetti-diagram\/\">spaghetti diagramming<\/a> or whatever\u2026 I used the principles of spaghetti diagramming to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/Moneybelt\/kitchens-are-lean-work-cells-video.html\">optimize how our things are laid out in our kitchen<\/a> so I don&#8217;t have to commute too much to get something done. You can use it anywhere.<\/p>\r\n<p>&#8220;So, you may not think that these tools are extra special, but they are. They&#8217;re handy. You can use them anywhere.<\/p>\r\n<p>&#8220;Let&#8217;s go out and improve something this week: Your personal life, your work life, wherever. Let&#8217;s go out and improve something this week.&#8221;<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In college, I spent four years studying Systems Engineering. The methods and tools of quality improvement are what I use instead. 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