Manufacturing firms intent on capturing and distilling rich streams of data will find them. Companies will often look at a capability maturity model (CMM) in rows and columns—a format common across many industries and many applications—in Excel.
If you have been following my articles for the last few months, you know that we’re almost done with an experimental analysis and that today we will be doing the final
Few process improvement topics generate more questions or may be least understood than design of experiments (DOE).
Six Sigma promoters and innovation advocates have emerged as opposing camps in the battle for tool supremacy in the organization improvem
For the last couple of columns, we have been analyzing a simple experiment where we look for the best choice for a new gear material.
Last month, I described a simple problem to determine which gear material resulted in longer wear.
By the time you are reading this, you will have made your New Year’s resolutions, and I will have already broken mine. But I have an idea for a resolution that you might be interested in keeping, and one that could make your New Year happy and profitable.
With all the emphasis today on quality, and studies showing that quality is very important to the leaders of American business, why are so many organizations struggling to achieve and sustain quality systems?
