Process Capability Analysis Cpk: Understanding and a Better Way

Performance Measurements, Process Metrics /

Have you always liked capability metrics, such as Cp and Cpk, and wondered what they really said? Well maybe you are not loosing sleep over this issue, but like many statistics, capability metrics are used without a full understanding of their message. View this webinar and continue your process improvement knowledge as we discuss each of these three questions. We will focus on the application rather than the theory of these capability metrics. Yes, there will be equations and such, but only in regards to explaining the concepts.

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Enhanced Enterprise Improvement System: Description and Webinar

Business Management System, Business Process Improvements /

Competitive pressures are forcing executives to react faster to changing business conditions and customer requirements. Line managers, and decision-makers need to be able to monitor and manage day to day business operations with access to continuously updated performance metrics to make faster decisions and take immediate action. In short, what’s needed is a performance measurement system.

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Enhanced Quality Management System Presentation

Business Management System, Integrated Enterprise Excellence /

Specializing in coaching and consulting, we introduce to companies the next generation of Lean Six Sigma: Integrated Enterprise Excellence (IEE). With daily operations throughout the world, Smarter Solutions aspires to be the best world-class firm for designing and applying innovative enterprise-wide performance measures and business solutions.

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Establishing a Long Lasting Beneficial Malcolm Baldrige Framework

Business Management System, Integrated Enterprise Excellence /

Are Measurements Leading to the Right Activity? One common type of scorecard uses red, yellow, and green to show whether immediate actions are needed relative to meeting established objectives: o Green: Meets all of the standards for success. o Yellow: Achieved some, but not all, of the criteria. o Red: Has any one of a number of serious flaws. Goals are important but arbitrary goal setting and management to obtain these goals can lead to the wrong behavior!

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Enhanced Six Sigma Framework

DMAIC process improvement project, Lean Six Sigma /

Six Sigma does five principal things: It emphasizes the need to recognize opportunities and eliminate customer-defined defects. It recognizes that variation hinders ability to reliably deliver high-quality services. It requires data-driven decisions and incorporates a comprehensive set of quality tools under a framework for effective problem solving. It provides a highly perspective cultural infrastructure to effectively obtain sustainable results. And, when implemented correctly, it promises and delivers substantial improved operating profit.

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