Finding Process Center in the Eye of the Data Storm

If you work in manufacturing, you probably see data every day. You may see it so often that you’ve become numb to it. For example, how often...

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Bringing the Power of Statistics into Focus

In 1907, Mark Twain associated statistics with lies. I’m here to debunk Mark Twain’s debunking of statistics. Statistics in the hands of und...

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The T-test & Tennis Balls

How to Use the Two Sample T-Test

Product manufacturing provides endless improvement opportunities. I thrived in my manufacturing career by ...

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Do you Know a Sue? A Dive into Supervisor Effectiveness

Sue has been with our company for many years. When she was a machine operator running machine line #25, she demonstrated daily excellence in...

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How to Have Fun in Manufacturing

People don’t usually associate having fun with working in manufacturing. The typical perception of manufacturing is that manufacturing plant...

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How to Create a Lean VMI System (Part III)
(click here to begin this article series at Part I)

I’m sure anyone who has ever led a project can appreciate project obstacles. I have nev...

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How to Create a Lean VMI (Part II)

After completing our current state map (see Part I of this article series), it was clear that this diaper plant had huge improvement opportu...

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