Perfect Your Predictions with Yield and Single-Use Reliability Modeling

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Yield is a key parameter in most manufacturing processes – tied to financial results, delivery and quality as shown in Figure 1. Figure 1: Yield Tied to Gross Margin and Delivery Yield modeling allows the team to predict future yield and prioritize opportunities to improve yield. A yield...

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Leadership skills for the future

You may have felt tested in your role in the past few months, but rest assured, you are not alone! Collectively our management skills have been tried, pushed and developed in a crash course. Whilst there is no text book to answer “how to manage during a global...

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Lean Fills Prescription for Change at Hospital Pharmacy

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The process improvement journey at Jordan Hospital took a large step forward last year when the organization was introduced to Lean Six Sigma concepts as part of a departmental optimization effort for its internal pharmacy. Jordan Hospital is an acute care, 150-bed, not-for-profit community hospital, serving 12 towns...

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3 Ways to Speed Up Data Collection in Financial Service Processes

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In any financial service process that is being studied for the first time, it is common for Six Sigma teams to spend one-third to one-half of their project time on data collection alone. It simply takes a lot of time to figure out what data is needed, to...

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What Are the Benefits of Lean Six Sigma for My Company?

Lean Six Sigma is a methodology and toolset that combines all the benefits of Six Sigma with those of Lean enterprise, so you can find the right tool for every job. Its aim is to identify and systematically remove defects and waste from every process within a company,...

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SIPOC Diagram

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Many recent inquiries and discussions have focused on the SIPOC diagram – a tool used in the Six Sigma methodology. Because of the interest level, a further explanation is presented here along with a sample and template for your use. A SIPOC diagram is a tool used by...

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Use Pareto Tables to Manage Large Data Sets

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Pareto analysis is an excellent way to find the most compelling drivers or root causes of a problem you want to solve. A Pareto chart generally looks like Figure 1 below, which can be easily generated by any number of charting tools, such as Microsoft Excel. Figure 1:...

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PRINCE2® vs Agile or PRINCE2 Agile®?

There's a lot of confusion between PRINCE2 and agile methods, and indeed debate (PRINCE2 vs Agile) about which should be used on projects. In fact, both can and are being used increasingly on projects – often together. In 2015, AXELOS, the owners of PRINCE2 launched PRINCE2 Agile. PRINCE2...

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Change Enablement in ITIL 4

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Change enablement is a very critical service management practice within ITIL. It is here that we can introduce improvements in services as well as other service management practices. A change is defined as the addition, modification, or removal of anything that could have a direct or indirect effect...

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8 Basics of Lean Six Sigma for Manufacturing Firms

In the efforts to draw closer to customers, many manufacturers have lost focus on what should be a company’s primary success factor – profitable growth. In today’s competitive manufacturing environment, it takes more than quick fixes, outsourcing and downsizing for companies to consistently achieve their growth and profit...

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