Setting the Process Aim, Part 2
Setting the process aim is a key element in the short production runs that characterize the lean production of multiple products.
Setting the process aim is a key element in the short production runs that characterize the lean production of multiple products.
So many companies are shifting their employees to working from home to address the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic. Yet they’re not considering the potential quality disasters that can occur as a result of this transition.
Story update 5/6/2020: The charts and some data have been updated to reflect the data available on the date this article was published.
Each day we receive data that seek to quantify the Covid-19 pandemic. These daily values tell us how things have changed from yesterday, and give us the current totals, but they are difficult to understand simply because they are only a small piece of the puzzle.
The phrase “flatten the curve” means to slow the transmission of the coronavirus (Covid-19) in order to spread the total number of cases out over a longer period of time.
This article is an update to “Tracking Covid-19” that Al Pfadt, Kathryn Whyte, and I wrote last week.
Based on the professional literature available, there are some inconvenient truths about Covid-19 that are not always considered in the chorus of confusion that exists today. Here we summarize what is known, what has already happened, and what is to be expected based
Given the complexities of healthcare, do basic statistics used to rank hospitals really work well? A study co-authored by MIT economists indicates that some fundamental metrics do, in fact, provide real insight about hospital quality.
As usual with Quality Digest’s diverse audience, this year’s top stories covered a wide range of topics applicable to quality professionals. From hardware to software, from standards to risk management, from China trade to FDA regulations.
In the past two months we have looked at how three-sigma limits work with skewed data.