Traditional control charting techniques, despite their long history, can lead to wasteful outcomes due to certain mathematical properties. This article examines these issues using a Minitab dataset and introduces a free 30,000-foot-level metric-reporting app as an alternative, supported by Minitab analyses.

Boeing needs to improve its manufacturing approach to prioritize transparency and continual improvement, which can also help other organizations improve their quality and bottom line.

Business Process Management and Lean Six Sigma can work very well together.

Forrest Breyfogle III discusses five ways to reduce manufacturing work in progress.

The final step of the Lean Six Sigma process improvement roadmap is control.

By integrating these tools, much can be gained in a business’ process improvement endeavors.

Organizations are successful if they incorporate structured steps for implementing Lean Six Sigma so that the enterprise as a whole benefits.

Managers can use metrics to keep their team focused on the most productive use of their time.

Quality Engineers can be a more valuable asset to their organizations when they expand a silo scoping of their work efforts to orchestrate the big picture and its associated processes.