Been There, Done That

When we were training in France, we had one engineer who refused to do the DOE exercise we had planned. His objection was that it did not apply to what he did.
I opened up my copy of Montgomery (Design and Analysis of Experiments, 4th ed. p. 428) and used the data from a DOE conducted for making Pinot Noir in California (1985 vintage). The…[Read more]

Joe:
There are all kinds of reasons why your data may follow a non-normal distribution. Please check to see if you have overlapping or multiple processes first. If the data is too chunky because of the resolution of the gage, then it may look bell-shaped, but still fail the Anderson-Darling test of normality. If you have a rat’s breakfast of a…[Read more]

Matt:Sales guys are great at dealing with resistance. They call it the five levels of buy-in and develop mitigation plans against each level. This is also called the five levels of resistance in the change management arena.Goldratt’s books are very good in this regard (Theory of Constraints). You don’t have to adhere to the TOC tools used to…[Read more]

Mike:
I tried to find out what Jack’s project was for his GB certification, no one I talked to knew what it was.
The Corporate SS Quality Leader for some years was Piet van Abeelen, after staying in the role for a long time (in GE timescale) he split off to form his own consulting group based in the Netherlands. The mantle of responsibility for…[Read more]

Mike:
I tried to find out what Jack’s project was for his GB certification, no one I talked to knew what it was.
The Corporate SS Quality Leader for some years was Piet van Abeelen, after staying in the role for a long time (in GE timescale) he split off to form his own consultanting group based in the Netherlands. The mantle of responsibility…[Read more]

Nick:
I have Pyzdek’s, “The Six Sigma Handbook”. It has all the straight stats stuff you’ll need and reviews some of the softer tools like FMEA. Other stats texts will go into a bit too much detail and without the Six Sigma context.Montgomery’s DOE book and general stat texts are good if you want more statistical detail.Breyfogle – I haven’t read…[Read more]

… the DFSS spaceship used the advanced Work Function of ejecting single project consultants out the back of the craft for propulsion. The dashing Captain Vinny, looking like like Tom Cruise, or if he is available, Johnny Depp, pondered what the Evil Darth would try next.

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With regards to Safety/Costs Root causes, you may want to add existing or pre-existing Cumulative Trauma injuries to your list. hypothetical example: A factory worker is doing brick work around his house on the weekend and injuries his back while doing heavy lifting. He returns to work on Monday and while properly lifting a one pound carton,…[Read more]

Actually, Enable died for one reason: They listened too much to
one customer (government/military). In fact, when the decision to
migrate to Windows was made, several good interface ideas were
rejected by the management in favor of one that would “insure
easy upgrades for our important customers.” (In other words, a
DOS interface on…[Read more]