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What I Learned about Lean Visual Signals from the Waffle House

Table of Contents What I Learned About Lean Visual Signals from the Waffle House How Does the Cook Remember All Those Orders? Simplify, Innovate, Automate: The Lean Hierarchy in Action Challenge: Spot Lean Visual Signals in Everyday Life Related SSDSI Posts What I...

3 Key Traits of an Effective Lean Six Sigma Champion

Table of contents An effective Lean Six Sigma Deployment Champion has 3 distinct traits Leads by Metrics Acts as “the Bulldozer” for Deployment Is the “Cheerleader” What is the Key Input for a successful Deployment? What do you think? Related...

Can You Create a Lean Six Sigma Green Belt in a 5 Day Class?

Table of contents Absolutely not! “Do we get our Green Belt Certification after the Course?” What does it take to become a Lean Six Sigma Green Belt? Education Experience About three hours The keys to creating a successful Lean Six Sigma Green Belt What is...

How to Conduct a Chi Squared Test for Proportions

Table of contents What is a Chi-Squared Test? Chi-Squared Example Related SSDSI Articles What is a Chi-Squared Test? The Chi-Squared Test is used to determine if an Attribute or Discrete “X” has an association with another Attribute or Discrete “Y.” The example below...

Process Capability – Look for the “Open Windows” First!

Table of contents Process Capability and “Closing open windows” “Jumping into the deep weeds”… Process Capability ppk formula – Defining the inputs The principle of “Occam’s Razor” What are your thoughts? Related...

Lean Event Tollgate Review and Deliverables

Table of contents Lean Event Tollgate Review and Deliverables PLAN/DEFINE Phase DO/MEASURE/ANALYZE Phase CHECK/ANALYZE/IMPROVE Phase ACT/IMPROVE/CONTROL Phase Related SSDSI Articles Lean Event Tollgate Review and Deliverables The Lean Event Tollgate Review...