Minitab(R) and Lean Six Sigma: A Guide to Improve Business Performance Metrics

This 377 page book

• Shows the execution of Minitab functions in a detailed Lean Six Sigma Define-Measure-Analyze-Improve-Control (DMAIC) roadmap to enhance the Y response for process improvement projects
• Shows use of a free software app for response-metric tracking that provides insight not possible with traditional metric reporting techniques
• Utilizes over 50 datasets to illustrate Y-response tracking from a process-output perspective and Y=f(X) analyses
• Discusses over 200 figures that illustrate software inputs and outputs
• Provides a clickable Lean Six Sigma Define-Measure-Analyze-Improve-Control (DMAIC) process-improvement roadmap that integrates the application of Lean and Six Sigma tools so that the right tool is used at the right time when undertaking process improvement efforts
• Shows a methodology for Lean Six Sigma improvement project selection so that the organization's big-picture benefits from the project′s completion
• Provides a method to statistically show and quantify at the 30,000-foot-level the benefits of process improvement efforts
• Offers a business process improvement system that goes beyond traditional Lean Six Sigma and the Balanced Scorecard
• Explains a method for executing and enhancing digital transformation efforts in an organization

This book provides direction on how organizations can resolve issues that commonly occur with:

• Traditional control charts and process capability reporting techniques
• AQL testing and reporting
• Lean Six Sigma deployments

This book provides direction on how organizations can benefit from the wise application of:

• Statistical and non-statistical techniques.
• Design of Experiments (DOE) in both manufacturing and transactional processes.

This book provides a comprehensive 9-step system that CEOs, presidents, general managers, executives, managers, leaders, practitioners, and others can use to resolve elephant-in-the-room management issues such as:

• Business goals not being met
• Scorecards leading to harmful, if not destructive, behaviors
• Persistent day-to-day firefighting problems
• Business strategies that are very generic and difficult to translate into organizational work environments
• Lean events and other improvement projects can consume many resources but often do not offer a quantifiable benefit to the business as a whole
• Lean Six Sigma process improvement deployments that have improvement projects, which are either not completed in a timely fashion or which make substantial financial claims that are questionable

This book describes the application and how to use of the following tools in Minitab as part of a Lean Six Sigma Define-Measure-Analyze-Improve-Control (DMAIC) roadmap

• Time-series plot
• Histogram
• Dot plot
• Descriptive statistics
• Pareto chart
• Probability plot
• X-bar and R control chart
• P-chart
• Process capability indices
• 30,000-foot-level reports
• Cause-and-effect diagram
• Visualization of data
• Multi-vari chart
• Hypothesis testing
• Inferences: continuous data
• Inferences: attribute data
• Comparing two samples
• Demonstration of process metric output response improvement
• Variance components
• Correlation
• Simple regression
• Residuals
• Single factor ANOVA
• ANOM
• Two factor ANOVA
• Multiple regression
• Binary Logistic regression
• General Linear Model (GLM)
• Design of Experiments (DOE)
• Response surface methodology (RSM)
• Control phase - maintain the gain

Offers a methodology to implement Deming's management philosophy, ISO 9000, Baldrige award criteria & Shingo Prize criteria.

Forrest Breyfogle is an ASQ Fellow and CEO of Smarter Solutions. He has authored over a dozen books. Forrest's Management and Leadership 2.0 two-book set provides in a novel-written-format explanation of an enhanced business management system that addresses the challenges of the day. Mr. Breyfogle was named Quality Professional of the Year for 2011 by Quality Magazine and in 2012 was awarded alumni of the year by Missouri University of Science and Technology. He received the prestigious ASQ Crosby Medal for an earlier book, Implementing Six Sigma and the 2013 Lean & Six Sigma World Conference Leadership Award.