Month: June 2018

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact Barbara A. Cleary, PhD (937) 813-2672 Dayton, Ohio, June 26, 2018—PQ Systems has lent its professional support and charting expertise to a software application developed by the Deming Institute in partnership with Acquate. https://www.acquate.com/ ED Software provides training for leading organizations as systems—a fundamental principle of W. Edwards Deming, considered the […]

We are all members of teams of one type or another, but have you ever stopped to think about how to lead a team well when you aren’t the boss? There’s a plethora of advice about being a better boss and the like, but how about a team that will only be together for a […]

Root cause analysis (RCA) is a way of identifying the underlying source of a process or product failure so that the right solution can be identified. RCA can progress more quickly and effectively by pairing an Ishikawa diagram with the scientific method in the form of the well-known plan-do-check-act (PDCA) cycle to empirically investigate the […]

Monitoring your process metrics over time allows you to look for trends and patterns in the data. The run chart is one of the easiest graphs to use to do this. 

There are a number of descriptive statistics you can use to describe the central tendency of your data. The mode is one of them. 

Late last year, I decided to upgrade my vehicle. For seven years I’d driven a Honda Civic. It was nothing special, just a reliable vehicle with good gas mileage – the perfect commuter car. But now I’ve got two kids, own a home and picked up woodworking as a hobby; fitting car seats and dimensional […]