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In 2016, the Riverside County jail made a surprising discovery. According to a study conducted by an outside group, almost 50% of the people in Riverside’s jail were being held …

Here’s a list of things you might find in your local supermarket: Canned goods Pet food Hair products Cheese The key to completely revolutionizing the manufacturing and production industry forever …

When Six Sigma project teams want to understand how different combinations of inputs affect the final product, they use the Design of Experiments (DOE) method. DOE pulls apart the variables …

Vilfredo Pareto changed the way we see opportunity and solve problems. Pareto was an Italian economist who studied land ownership in Switzerland over 100 years ago. He discovered that 20% …

The Six Sigma initiative is used by organizations to employ a structured, systematic approach to achieve operational excellence across all areas of the organization. The Six Sigma initiative utilizes specific …

A Cause and Effect Diagram is a graphical tool for displaying a list of causes associated with a specific effect. It is also known as a fishbone diagram or an Ishikawa diagram (created by Dr. Kaoru Ishikawa, an influential quality management innovator). The graph organizes a list of potential causes into categories.

When using a Design of Experiments methodology, an alias is when the pattern of pluses (+) and minuses (-) into columns are identical. For example, a main effect is aliased …

The alternate hypothesis is the complement of the null hypothesis. The null hypothesis is what you anticipate through randomness. The alternative hypothesis, sometimes known as the alternate hypothesis is the …

An activity network diagram also known as arrow diagram, pert chart, and critical path method is used to show activities that are in parallel and/or in series. It will show …

Project teams use an affinity diagram as a better way to solicit, record and discuss ideas that will solve operational challenges. Its primary goal is to take all ideas for …