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BonacorsiArticlesDisplaying Results 1 - 15 for bonacorsi![]() Mistake Proofing ... customers found empty boxes with their shipments. The company wants to make sure no more empty boxes are shipped. Steven Bonacorsi is a Senior Master Black Belt instructor and coach. Steven Bonacorsi has trained hundreds of Master Black ... Read ![]() Process Mapping With FlowchartsProcess Mapping with Flowcharts
A flowchart is an outline or schematic drawing of the process your team is trying to measure or improve. It can also be a picture of an ideal process that you would like to use. Process mapping with ... Read ![]() What is Six Sigma?What is Six Sigma?
The concepts surrounding the drive to Six Sigma quality are essentially those of statistics and probability. In simple language, these concepts boil down to, “How confident can I be that what I planned to happen ... Read ![]() What is LeanWhat is Lean?
Lean is a methodology that is used to accelerate the velocity and reduce the cost of any process (be it service or manufacturing) by removing waste. Lean is founded on a mathematical result known as Little's Law:
... Read ![]() BenchmarkingBenchmarking Overview:
In 1912, Henry Ford of The Ford Motor Company watched men cut meat during a tour of a Chicago slaughter house. The carcasses were hanging on hooks mounted on a monorail. After each man performed his job he would ... Read ![]() Scatter DiagramsA scatter diagram shows the correlation between two variables in a process. These variables could be a Critical To Quality (CTQ) characteristic and a factor affecting it, two factors affecting a CTQ or two related quality characteristics. ... Read ![]() Quick WinsA Quick Win is an already developed solution idea linked to a known root cause. i.e., it allows your team to jump into the Improve Phase of Lean Six Sigma project. The only major determination left is how to implement, assuming the team ... Read ![]() How to Identify and Select a Lean Six Sigma Black BeltBlack Belts are knowledgeable and highly skilled in the use of the Lean Six Sigma methodologies and tools, as well as facilitation and change management, and lead subject matter experts to increase customer satisfaction levels and business ... Read ![]() Process SimulationOne of the greatest complaints we hear from senior managers is “projects are successfully completed, but I’m not seeing a significant change to the bottom line.” That’s because in the Define stage of (DMAIC), Six Sigma experts don’t have ... Read ![]() Kano Model & Critical-to-quality TreeDeveloped in the 80's by Professor Noriaki Kano, the Kano model is based on the concepts of customer quality and provides a simple ranking scheme which distinguishes between essential and differentiating attributes. The model is a powerful ... Read ![]() Elements of Measure (dmaic) & Prioritization MatrixOne of the major benefits of Six Sigma is its demand for a fact-based and data-driven analytical approach. Most other improvement methodologies, including Lean, tend to attempt process improvement without sufficient data to understand the ... Read ![]() 5s - Foundation for Continuous ImprovementWhat is 5s? A Lean tool developed by the Japanese – Toyota Production System (TPS) Foundation for continuous improvement – Must exist before improvement maturity can occur 5S Process creates an organized, clean and safe workplace ... Read ![]() Cause and Effect Diagrams (fishbone Diagrams)Cause-and-Effect Diagrams
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It is difficult if not impossible to solve complicated problems without considering many factors and the cause-and-effect relationships between those factors. Defining and displaying ... Read ![]() Critical Path MappingCritical Path Mapping with Activity Network Diagrams
The activity network diagram is a method of displaying the timelines of all the various subtasks that are involved in any project. By doing this, the total task duration and the ... Read ![]() Box PlotsBox-and-whisker diagrams, or Box Plots, use the concept of breaking a data set into fourths, or quartiles, to create a display. The box part of the diagram is based on the middle (the second and third quartiles) of the data set. The ... Read Searches related to: bonacorsi
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