{"id":7176,"date":"2024-10-01T01:00:37","date_gmt":"2024-10-01T07:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/?p=7176"},"modified":"2024-12-19T15:10:09","modified_gmt":"2024-12-19T22:10:09","slug":"is-your-six-sigma-software-intuitive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/is-your-six-sigma-software-intuitive\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Your Six Sigma Software Intuitive?"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>Many people consider QI Macros to be the most intuitive Six Sigma Software. Here&#8217;s why:<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/995087262?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&#8217;m Jay Arthur, author of \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Lean-Six-Sigma-Hospitals-Improving\/dp\/1259641082\/\">Lean Six Sigma For Hospitals<\/a>\u201d and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/demo\/\">QI Macros [software]<\/a>.<\/p>\r\n<p>&#8220;I left the phone company in 1995; I started doing some Quality Improvement consulting work and I needed some tools to be able to do what I needed to do. Back then I had a Macintosh Power Mac and Excel was running on that. Excel at that time had Excel for Macros and I know how to program, so I used that code to create some things like a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/ppc\/pareto-chart-excel\/\">Pareto chart<\/a>. I&#8217;d be out working with a client and guess what? I would draw a Pareto chart and they&#8217;d say, \u201cThat&#8217;s cool! Where can I get that?\u201d<\/p>\r\n<p>&#8220;One of the things about the QI Macros is because it was built in Excel on a Macintosh, it has more of an intuitive flare to it. I had a Master Black Belt tell me the other day, \u201cYou know&#8230; what I love about the QI Macros is it&#8217;s intuitive.\u201d It&#8217;s intuitive.<\/p>\r\n<p>&#8220;At that time, I had to port what I was building in the Macintosh into Windows because it was a much larger market. Out of that came the initial version of the QI Macros. If I had waited until 1997 when Visual Basic came out, it would have been written in Visual Basic, but it was written in Excel for Macro language for a while. Then I had to port it into Visual Basic, but it has become super simple to do that.<\/p>\r\n<p>&#8220;Because I work the way Excel does &#8211; Excel is like: \u201cselect some data, click a button, get a chart,\u201d so I didn&#8217;t know any better. So okay, well\u2026 select some data, click a button, get a chart. That enabled me to automate the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/control-chart\/control-chart-wizard\/\">Control Chart Wizard<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/qi-macros\/wizards\/\">Stat Wizard<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/data-mining-analysis-excel\/data-mining-wizard\/\">Improvement Project Wizard<\/a>. All these Wizards automate things that used to be complicated, like picking the right control chart and so on. I don\u2019t have to find my way through a decision tree, which most people do not want to do and find it uncomfortable.<\/p>\r\n<p>&#8220;So that&#8217;s how the QI Macros came to be. I needed some tools, when I used those tools in front of people they said \u201cWhere can I get that?\u201d and I took off and I started doing it.<\/p>\r\n<p>&#8220;So that&#8217;s how the QI Macros came to be. You know, now 20-some-odd years later\u2026 25, 26, 27\u2026 however many years it is, it has grown in terms of capability, [functionality and] robustness. We can do all kinds of things, [but] most people just need a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/ppc\/control-chart-excel\/\">control chart<\/a>, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/ppc\/pareto-chart-excel\/\">Pareto chart<\/a> and a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/fishbone-diagram-template\/\">fishbone diagram<\/a>.<\/p>\r\n<p>&#8220;So that&#8217;s my Improvement Insight. Get some software to do it. Use the tools of Quality! 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