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Continuous Improvement & Control

Control Plans

In this video you will learn what Con­trol Plans are as well as how to cre­ate your own using the Con­trol Plan tem­plate we’re pro­vid­ing. You’ll also learn what the Sec­ond Law of Ther­mo­dy­nam­ics has to do with con­tin­u­ous improvement!

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The abil­i­ty to error or mis­take proof a prod­uct or process is an extreme­ly impor­tant part of the Improve and Con­trol Phas­es with­in the DMA­IC roadmap. It’s also impor­tant any­time errors or mis­takes are iden­ti­fied, even out­side of project work. In this mod­ule you’ll learn what Poka Yoke is as well as how to lever­age it as we con­tin­u­ous­ly strive towards zero defects.

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    In this sec­tion we’re intro­duced to both lean and six sig­ma while also learn­ing how they can be used togeth­er in harmony.

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  • Project Selection

    • 8 Videos
    • 56m
    Now that we’ve cov­ered some impor­tant foun­da­tion­al work it’s time to learn how to iden­ti­fy a good project. This step is extreme­ly impor­tant since a poor­ly scoped project has lit­tle hope of success.

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  • Process Mapping & Selected Tools

    • 5 Videos
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    The abil­i­ty to under­stand how mate­r­i­al and process­es flow, while also iden­ti­fy­ing the ​“inputs” or ​“Xs” to a process, is at the heart of the DMA­IC method­ol­o­gy. So, in this sec­tion we’ll learn about dif­fer­ent types of process maps while also learn­ing how to take the infor­ma­tion learned from process map­ping into addi­tion­al tools like the C&E Matrix and FMEA in order to nar­row the lists of inputs down to the ​“crit­i­cal few.” To be sure, many prob­lems can solved dur­ing this phase of a project so it’s real­ly time to dig in!

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  • Introduction to Statistics

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    OK, now that we have a bet­ter under­stand­ing of our process­es… it’s time to learn how to tru­ly under­stand the data we’re pre­sent­ed with. So, in the next 5 videos we’re going to intro­duce you to Minitab as well as intro­duce you to what this thing called ​“Sta­tis­tics” is all about.

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  • Descriptive Statistics

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    Have you ever won­dered why real­tors rarely ever speak about the ​“aver­age” home price… instead they typ­i­cal­ly refer to the medi­an home price? If so, you’re in luck since we’re about to explain the dif­fer­ent types of descrip­tive statistics.

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  • Graphs

    • 12 Videos
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    The abil­i­ty to graph data is supreme­ly impor­tant. But with so many graphs to choose from how do we choose the cor­rect one? This series of videos answers that ques­tion for you!

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  • Inferential Statistics

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    Hav­ing a sol­id under­stand­ing of the sci­en­tif­ic method and how to study a small sam­ple of data in order to make deci­sions about an entire pop­u­la­tion is what usu­al­ly sep­a­rates excel­lent Con­tin­u­ous Improve­ment Prac­ti­tion­ers from aver­age ones. In the next series of videos we real­ly dig into top­ics such as hypoth­e­sis test­ing and nor­mal­i­ty. Final­ly, you will nev­er need to use ALL of these tools in a sin­gle project… but it’s still impor­tant you under­stand the tool allow­ing you to use it when the time is right.

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  • Statistical Process Control

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    SPC, or Sta­tis­ti­cal Process Con­trol, is anoth­er foun­da­tion­al tool for all Con­tin­u­ous Improve­ment Prac­ti­tion­ers. In this series of videos we’ll learn all about SPC as well as the many dif­fer­ent types of Con­trol Charts at our disposal.

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  • Process Capability

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  • ANOVA

    • 7 Videos
    • 47m
    ANO­VA, which stands for Analy­sis of Vari­ance, is a fun­da­men­tal sta­tis­ti­cal con­cept that is used in things such as Mea­sure­ment Sys­tems Analy­sis, Regres­sion, and DOE. In this sec­tion, we’ll learn what ANO­VA is as well as how we can lever­age it in order to run experiments.

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