Lean Sigma--A Practitioner's Guide (2nd Edition)
The Practical Guide to Lean Sigma Problem-Solving Expanded & Updated!
Lean Sigma delivers results if you use the right tools and techniques. In this thoroughly updated edition, Ian Wedgwood details his proven best-practices from more than sixty successful Six Sigma and Lean deployments in multiple industries, helping you identify and apply the solutions that will work best in your projects.
This expanded edition of Lean Sigma: A Practitioner s Guide offers detailed guidance on process improvement, standardization, accelerated improvement, and more. Wedgwood helps you identify potential Lean Sigma projects, even in processes without obvious targets. He illuminates fast, effective routes to solving specific business problems, and explains why these solutions work.
Next, he presents detailed tools roadmaps : step-by-step instructions showing exactly how and when to use each of these tools:
5 Whys
5S
Affinity
ANOVA
Box plot
Capability
C&E matrix
Chi-Square
Concept ideation, design, selection
Control charts
Control plan summary
Core process map
Critical path analysis
Customer interviewing
Customer requirements tree
Customer surveys
D-Study
Demand profiling
Demand segmentation
DOE
Fishbone diagram
Handoff map
KPOVs & data
Load chart
MSAs
Multi-Cycle analysis
Multi-Vari studies
Murphy s analysis
Normality test
OEE
Pareto chart
Process performance mgmt.
Poka Yoke
Process board
Process FMEA
Process scorecard /dashboard
Process variables (I/O) map
Project charter
Pull systems & Kanban
Rapid changeover (SMED)
Regression
SIPOC
Spaghetti map
Standard work instructions
SPC
Swimlane map
Test of equal variance
Time
Total productive maintenance
T-tests
Value stream map
With this guide, all Green, Black, or Master Black Belts will benefit from decades of Six Sigma and Lean consulting experience.
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