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(Juran Institute: Southbury, CT) -- The Juran Institute Inc. is conducting blended Six Sigma workshops for Green Belt and Black Belt certification. The workshops begin with required preworkshop assignments—approximately 20 hours of online independent study of e-learning modules—that must be…
(ASTM: W. Conshohocken, PA) -- The eighth edition of the ASTM International Manual on Presentation of Data and Control Chart Analysis is now available. This manual includes the latest information on statistical and quality control methods, as well as recommendations for their application in…
(SPC Press: Knoxville, TN) -- Reducing Production Costs: How to Convert Capability Indexes and Performance Indexes into Excess Costs of Production and Use, by Donald J. Wheeler (SPC Press, 2010), is written for everyone who is trying to do more with less. Using a proven methodology of reducing…
(University at Buffalo: Buffalo, NY) -- University at Buffalo’s Center for Industrial Effectiveness (TCIE) announces its next Black Belt training class to be presented at Ramada Hotel, in Amherst, New York, with dates slated for Sept. 20–24, Oct. 25–29, Nov. 29–Dec. 3, Jan. 10–14, 2011, and Feb. 7…
(Guidon Performance Solutions: Mesa, AZ) -- Guidon Performance Solutions LLC, a provider of process management and performance improvement solutions to the service sector, is offering a two-day workshop “LeanSigma Fundamentals for Service,” on Aug. 31 and Sept. 1, in Mesa, Arizona. This workshop…
(Productivity Press: New York) -- The lean concepts and principles described in John Nicholas’ Lean Production for Competitive Advantage: A Comprehensive Guide to Lean Methodologies and Management Practices, (Productivity Press, 2010) have revolutionized manufacturing practice and business conduct…
(QMI/Visual-Lean Institute: Byron Center, MI) -- The world’s first Visual Workplace Summit will show you what workplace visuality is, why it’s so important, and how the technologies of the visual workplace can help. This summit is presented by QMI/Visual-Lean Institute and the Manufacturing…
(Juran Institute: Southbury, CT) -- The new Lean and Six Sigma Reference and Tool Kit is now available. Joseph A. De Feo, president of the Juran Institute, author and editor-in-chief of the reference guide, has redesigned the guide as an overall performance improvement tool applicable to those…
(Visual Workplace Inc.: Byron Center, MI) -- Visual Workplace Inc., along with GBMP Inc, Bosch-Rexroth, Airline Hydraulic, and the 5S Store are sponsoring a half-day lean series workshop, The Foundation of Lean: Creating Stability with 5S and Visual Control Systems. The workshop will take place at…
(SPC Press: Knoxville, TN) -- On July 12, SPC Press released the third edition of the classic SPC textbook, Understanding Statistical Process Control, by Donald J. Wheeler and David S. Chambers.
This internationally acclaimed textbook (often called the blue book) is widely used for…
(Smarter Solutions: Austin, TX) -- Everyone understands how lean Six Sigma tools—define, measure, analyze, improve, control (DMAIC)—are beneficial to the practitioner: They provide a system to solve true business problems in a project format. However, this emphasis on projects might limit the…
(Pilgrim Software Inc.: Tampa, FL) -- Pilgrim Software Inc., a global provider of enterprise, risk, compliance, and quality management software solutions, has announced the availability of SmartSolve 8.2.30, the latest and most enhanced version of its process automation product. The new version is…
(Productivity Press: New York) -- Although it is a given that most lean companies adopt methods to standardize cyclical activities, they often fail to apply the same rigor to noncyclical work, believing that it cannot be measured. Standardized Work for Noncyclical Processes (Productivity Press,…
(Omnex Inc.: Ann Arbor, MI) – Omnex Inc. will present “Advanced Product Quality Planning (APQP) & Design Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (DFMEA),” a one-day seminar on Aug. 23 in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The seminar’s goals are to provide a hands-on approach to APQP and its relationship to…
(MoreSteam.com: Columbus, OH) -- MoreSteam.com, a global provider of online lean Six Sigma (LSS) training and blended learning support technologies, has introduced its first Master Black Belt (MBB) Summer Webcast Series. This series of three, free one-hour lectures by process improvement experts…
(InfinityQS: Chantilly, VA) -- InfinityQS, a statistical process control (SPC) software company, and Branson, a provider of plastics joining and metal welding, have announced they are including XPort, the quality control integration application, with all Branson 2000X touch-screen welders. Pairing…
(Six Sigma & Process Excellence IQ: London) -- Six Sigma & Process Excellence IQ is proud to announce the Healthcare Process Improvement Network (H-PIN), the online and face-to-face information resource for lean Six Sigma (LSS) and process improvement professionals in the health care…
(EtQ Inc.: Farmingdale, NY) -- EtQ announces the recent release of its failure mode and effects analysis (FMEA) module, which enables organizations to better analyze product and process design, reduce the time taken to study effects, and mitigate the risk of potential failures.
The need for…
(CRC Press: Boca Raton, FL) -- While continuing to focus on methods of testing for two-sided equivalence, the second edition of Testing Statistical Hypotheses of Equivalence and Noninferiority (CRC Press, 2010) gives much more attention to noninferiority testing. Author Stefan Wellak covers a…
(Business901: Fort Wayne, IN) -- The Best in Market eBook was written in response to what author Eric Reidenbach, Ph.D., has experienced in creating and measuring value, the best leading indicator of market share growth. The book is aimed at quality personnel, including lean and Six Sigma…
(Zontec Inc.: Cincinnati) -- Zontec Inc., the international developer of statistical process control (SPC) software, is making a free downloadable version of The Book of Statistical Process Control to members of the quality assurance community.
Written by Zontec for nonstatisticians, the…
(Juran Institute: Southbury, CT) -- For more than 50 years, Juran’s Quality Handbook has been the definitive reference to quality management and engineering. Juran’s Quality Handbook: The Complete Guide to Performance Excellence, Sixth Edition (McGraw-Hill, 2010)—the first revision in 10 years—…
(Quantum Associates: Northbrook, IL) -- Quantum Associates Inc. has developed its new data analysis tool because they discovered that during their work with service and manufacturing organizations, data are often collected for the sake of collecting data and cannot be put into a format to make…
In the January 2010 issue of MoreNews, we discussed “Simpson’s Paradox,” a well-known phenomenon that can distort causal relationships in data sets in the presence of a confounder or covariate. In this article, we will talk about some practical ways to guard against becoming the victim of this…
(University Alliance: Tampa, FL) -- There’s no doubt that professionals with the right post-recession skills will have the best career options. That same knowledge can also strengthen their bank accounts, according to a U.S. News University Directory article featured in the latest University…
