What Comes First: The Lean or The Culture?

Does culture come before lean or does lean come before culture? Itโ€™s kind of a chicken or egg kind of question. Having implemented lean meth...

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Who Done It? A Variation Investigation

Process variation is running rampant in your factory and you've been called-on to solve this mystery. You are passionate about finding these...

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Long-Term Process Capability Studies

Not knowing the long-term capability of your processes is like driving your car at night during a snowstorm. Visibility is poor and driving ...

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Short-Term Process Capability Studies

Short-term process capability studies are conducted to establish the performance entitlement of a process. This type of capability study cap...

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Process Capability: An Overview for You

Processes variation is a fact of life in a manufacturing plant and so knowing the capability of your processes is essential information for ...

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Our Normality: Tested and Explained

Almost all natural data on planet earth is normally distributed and most manufacturing process data is normally distributed too. What does t...

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The Power of a Normal Distribution

Build a Histogram

Before diving into the normal distribution curve, letโ€™s start with the building block of it, the histogram. The word hist...

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