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Laurel Thoennes @ Quality Digest
Published: Tuesday, June 23, 2009 - 14:27
This paperback book will be easy to find on library shelves; just look for the one with the most dog-eared pages. Lean Six Sigma Using SigmaXL and Minitab, by Issa Bass and Barbara Lawton, Ph.D. (McGraw Hill, 2009) may become your most greatly used reference book. It’s a practical introduction to lean Six Sigma project execution and written in such a way that it can be used as a training manual for beginners or as a reference tool for Black Belts.
The book is based on years of teaching the lean Six Sigma methodology to audiences from many different industries. The authors provide varied examples using two of the most widely-used statistical software suites, SigmaXL and Minitab, to better help the reader understand how to execute a lean Six Sigma project.
Lean Six Sigma Using SigmaXL and Minitab explains how to:
Issa Bass is a Master Black Belt and senior consultant with Manor House and Associates. He is the founding editor of SixSigmaFirst.com. Bass has extensive experience in quality and operations management, and is the author of Six Sigma Statistics with Minitab and Excel (McGraw Hill, 2007).
Barbara Lawton, Ph.D., is a Six Sigma Black Belt and has been improving manufacturing processes using lean techniques and Six Sigma for more than 15 years, in various industries on three continents. Lawton specializes in data analysis, and is a keen experimentalist and problem solver, using a wide range of statistical tools. She currently works for one of the world’s leading aerospace organizations in the United Kingdom.
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A guide to lean Six Sigma statistics using examples from SigmaXL and Minitab
The road map used for this practical approach is W. Edward Deming’s five-step improvement process, define, measure, analyze, improve, control (DMAIC), a statistical and scientific method of improving existing business processes. A chapter is devoted to each of the five steps explaining how it is used in lean Six Sigma.
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