Continuous Process Improvement, Data Science, and Statistical Analysis
With the start of the new year, I polled my followers on Twitter and asked what they’d like to see me blog about in 2017. Overwhelmingly, the answer was “statistics” (weird, right?). However, before I move into that realm I’d like to write about my experiences today as a customer, and how they could have…
You may not think of Bacon as a “lean” product. Get ready for a pig surprise! While researching sources for color-coded cleaning equipment for a set of shadow boards, I made an interesting discovery. Our friends at Munsell Color have found a great use for one of their products by using a color chart to…
I recently had an “oopsie” moment that made me reassess my thoughts on mistake-proofing. I wanted to score a “quick win” and ran a Pareto Analysis of the top causes of downtime on one of my facility’s processes. The top two areas for concern (the “long poles in the tent” so to speak) were expected. …