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Critical Inputs

What Is a Critical Input?

In the Six Sig­ma approach, crit­i­cal inputs refer to the key fac­tors or vari­ables that have a sig­nif­i­cant impact on the out­put or out­come of a process. Learn the impor­tance of iden­ti­fy­ing crit­i­cal inputs for process improve­ment, and the mean­ing of the equa­tion Y=(f)X.

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The iden­ti­fi­ca­tion of crit­i­cal inputs begins in the Define phase of DMA­IC and con­tin­ues through the Mea­sure and Ana­lyze phas­es. Learn the tools we can use to visu­al­ize the infor­ma­tion and fine-tune our list of crit­i­cal inputs using sta­tis­ti­cal analy­sis techniques.