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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