Masaaki Imai is a consultant, author, and founder of the Kaizen Institute.

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(Methods: Sudbury, MA) -- Methods Machine Tools, a leading supplier of innovative machine tools, automation, and machine tool accessories, has introduced hardware and software enhancements to the VisionGauge digital optical comparators, developed by VISIONx.

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There are two basic ideas or principles that need to be respected when creating a chart for individual values and a moving range (an XmR chart). This column will explain and illustrate these two principles for effective XmR charts.

Effective coaching is a skill that requires an understanding of human motivation and behavior. It also requires plenty of practice. To coach, according to most dictionaries, means to “tutor, train, give hints to, or prime with facts.”

Six Sigma was originally created by Bob Gavin at Motorola during the 1980s; however, it could be argued that a comparable methodology was in use as early as the 1850s.

You’re in a meeting when a colleague brings up an idea that you think (or even know) is not so great. For many of us, our first instinct is to shoot the idea down immediately, one way or another, before it gains traction.