We would be happy and successful employees if our managers just did three simple things for us. If we had these three things, we would...

Short-term process capability studies are conducted to establish the performance entitlement of a process. This type of capability study...

Processes variation is a fact of life in a manufacturing plant and so knowing the capability of your processes is essential information...

Build a Histogram

Before diving into the normal distribution curve, let’s start with the building block of it, the histogram. The...

If you work in manufacturing, you probably see data every day. You may see it so often that you’ve become numb to it. For example,...

The 6M's of manufacturing opportunity stand for Machine, Material, Methods, Manpower, Measurement and Mother Nature. What I like about...

Six-sigma is a popular buzz word in plants, but do you understand the basics of what it means?  The grass roots explanation of...