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Total Factor Productivity

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Recent labor relations controversies and ongoing arguments about the minimum wage have raised questions as to how a supply chain should share the utility it produces.

ANOVA and the Process Behavior Chart

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The peacock’s plumage serves as an example of “Fisherian runaway,” a concept of natural selection named for Sir Ronald Fisher, who also created the analysis of variance (ANOVA). Credit: Creative Commons; photo by Haribabu Pasupathy.

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When Sir Ronald Fisher created the analysis of variance (ANOVA) in the 1920s, he extended the two-sample t-test to allow the comparison of k sample averages. During the same time period, Dr. Walter Shewhart was creating the process behavior chart.

A Secret of Effective Data Analysis

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Managers are commonly fed a diet of report-card data. These data have usually been aggregated into summaries, averages, and totals to characterize the big picture. As useful as such summaries can be, they can also be an obstacle to an effective analysis.

How Atomic Clocks Have Changed Our World

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One of NIST’s ytterbium lattice atomic clocks: NIST physicists combined two of these experimental clocks to make the world’s most stable single atomic clock. The image is a stacked composite of about 10 photos in which an index card was positioned in front of the lasers to reveal the laser beam paths. Credit: N. Phillips/NIST

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Time: We all have a sense of it, an innate feel for it. We see it and use it every day.

The Problem With Improvement Projects

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An engineer once told me, “I work on project teams that have an average half-life of two weeks, implementing solutions with an average half-life of two weeks.” Time after time, and in place after place, our improvement efforts often fall short of expectations and fad

Will Remote Work Determine the Election?

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The 2024 U.S. presidential election is shaping up to be one of the closest in recent history, with Kamala Harris and Donald Trump locked in a dead heat in many polls.

Understanding the Taguchi Loss Function

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Most quality practitioners are familiar with the Taguchi loss function, which contends that the cost of any deviation from the nominal follows a quadratic model.

Don’t Just Stand There, Improve Something!

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Implementing solutions before identifying the problems is a guaranteed shortcut to chaos. Photo by Headway on Unsplash

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The objective of all improvement projects should be to improve the overall process. Everything else should be secondary to this objective.

Relationship Between Process Capability Index and Sigma

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Recently, I wrote about the process capability index and tolerance interval.

Third-Generation Capability Confusion

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The four common capability and performance indexes collectively contain all of the summary information about process predictability, process conformity, and process aim that can be expressed numerically.

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