It’s all about ROI
Shewhart’s economic operation is the starting point for lean production
Most people are confused about what quality means. Hopefully, better education in the coming decades will correct this.
One of the fundamental mysteries of probability theory
When is a prediction more than just wishful thinking?
More than 40 years later, has much changed? What do you think?
How to know what the data are really telling you
What math nerds do when they’re bored
Not all count-based data will qualify
Trend rules are helpful in service industries but you need to know which one to use
And what do they add to the story?
Optimizing acceptance limits to minimize cost of wrong decisions
Calculate the fraction of good product that will be rejected and nonconforming product that will be accepted
Here’s how it could reduce costs and improve patient outcomes
And what do they tell us about our histogram?
The analytical method allows more detailed quantification of the gage standard deviation and bias
And how to fix them so as to avoid the nonsense
A review of the fundamentals of a gauge R&R study to remind us why it’s so critical
Common sense says it is beneficial to understand the capabilities and limitations of inspections for attributes
Guest author from academia walks us through considerations and tools available to conduct this type of analysis with differential privacy