Design of Experiment: Searching for a Selfie Fountain of Youth
I’ve never understood the fascination with selfies.
Cp and Cpk: Two Process Perspectives, One Process Reality
It’s usually not a good idea to rely solely on a single statistic to draw conclusions about your process. Do that, and you could fall into the clutches of the “duck-rabbit” illusion shown below.
Succeeding With Lean When You Don’t Know Anything
It is vitally important for lean people to know nothing when working on improvement. This sounds like a crazy idea, but it is another 100-percent turnaround from traditional management thinking.
Continuous Process Improvement and the Homework Dilemma
Generally speaking, I have a problem with authority. I don’t like being told what to do or how to do it. I’m not proud of that.
The Predictive Power of Control Charts
The ability to make predictions has always been rewarded. Statistician Donald J. Wheeler says that “prediction is the essence of business.” With growing bodies of data and good analytical models, our predictions are getting better.