Lean Six Sigma Demystified

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Are sluggish, error-prone processes costing your customers time and cash? Want to make your business more productive and profitable? Lean Six Sigma Demystified offers an effective and enlightened way to learn this revolutionary quality improvement method. Find out how to make dramatic improvements in speed and quality that translate into more savings, more sales, and more profit. You?ll learn to identify and eliminate delay, defects, error, and waste, cut costs and grow revenue, and improve your job skills. And you won?t have to learn to perform complicated statistical calculations?you can download a 90-day trial version of simple software that will do it all for you. The quick and easy guide features: Clear explanations of Lean Six Sigma terminology Methods for solving problems associated with delay, defects, and deviation Tools for defining, measuring, analyzing, and improving problems and sustaining solutions Case studies to show the methods and tools in action A quiz at theend of each chapter to reinforce learning and pin-point weaknesses A final exam at the end of the book Packed with clear explanations and proven techniques, Lean Six Sigma Demystified is your shortcut to making this strategy a success in your organization Key Features ?In-depth Exercises to deepen understanding and skill ?Examples of each process and tool which link learning to specific business environment ?Action Plans for implementation of proposed countermeasures ?Tips for interpreting performing data mining & analysis ?Learn to analyze projects in hours or days not months or years ?Laser-focus your Lean Six Sigma efforts to maximize your immediate results while minimizing your start-up costs; ?Implement Lean Six Sigma successfully using the secrets of "diffusion" to "crawl-walk-run" your way to success. ?Improve training effectiveness and reduce costs using JIT training About The Author Jay Arthur hasworked as both a quality and process manager within a Fortune 50 company and on his own as a Lean Six Sigma resultant. He has written books on Six Sigma, Lean, and software engineering. Table Of Contents Chapter 1. What Is Lean Six Sigma? Chapter 2. Lean DeMYSTIFIED Chapter 3. Excel Power Tools for Lean Six Sigma Chapter 4. Reducing Defects with Six Sigma Chapter 5. Transactional Six Sigma Chapter 6. Reducing Variation with Six Sigma Chapter 7. Sustaining Improvement Chapter 8. Laser-Focused Process Innovation Chapter 9. Making Lean Six Sigma Successful Chapter 10. Measurement System Analysis Chapter 11. Design for Lean Six Sigma Chapter 12. Statistical Tools for Lean Six Sigma Final Exam Answers To Quiz And Exam Questions Bibliography Glossary Index