Course curriculum
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1. Continuous Improvement
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1.1 What is Continuous Improvemement?
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1.2 Under a Culture of Continuous Improvement
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1.3 Summary
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2. Interdisciplinary Focus
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2.1 Drawing from a Range of Disciplines and Concepts
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2.2 Customer Value
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2.3 Summary
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3. Systems Thinking
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3.1 Defiing as Process: Y=f(x)
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3.2 Six Types of Systems Thinking
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3.3 Summary
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Ted Talk: Systems Thinking
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4. Problem Finding
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4.1 Opportunities for Improvement
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4.2 Eight Wastes
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4.3 Gemba
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4.4 Summary
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5. Experimentation
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5.1 Experimentation
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5.2 Minimum Viable Product
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5.3 Summary
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6. Measuring Process Parameters
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6.1 Measurement Systems Analysis
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6.2 Gage R&R Studies
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6.3 Summary
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7. Setting Process Performance Standards
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7.1 Voice of the Customer, Critical to Quality, Voice of the Process, and Cost of Poor Quality
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7.2 Summary
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8. Streamlining Processses and Workflow
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8.1 Productive TIme and Elapsed TIme
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8.2 Value Stream Mapping
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8.3 Process Mapping
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8.4 Spaghetti Diagrams
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8.5 Summary
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9. Root Cause Analysis
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9.1 The Core Principles of Root Cause Analysis
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9.2 The 5 Whys
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9.3 Structuring the Root Cause Study
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9.4 Summary
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10. Bar Charts
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10.1 Creating a Bar Chart
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10.2 Summary
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11. Pareto Charts
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11.1 Building a Pareto Chart
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11.2 Summary
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12. Fishbone Diagrams
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12.1 Creating a Fishbone or Cause and Effect Diagram
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12.2 Examples in Marketing, Operations, and Customer Satisfaction
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12.3 Summary
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13. Process Improvment Strategy
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13.1 Three Fundamental Challenges
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13.2 X-Y Matrix
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13.3 Summary
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14. Continuous Improvment as a Project
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14.1 Project Management
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14.2 How Scrum Works
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14.3 Summary
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15. Improving Process Flow
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15.1 Basics of Kanban
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15.2 Multi-Stage Systems and Efficiency
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15.3 Building a Kanban System
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15.4 Summary
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16. Statistical Measures of Process Performance
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16.1 The Mean as a Measure of Central Tendency
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16.2 Variation
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16.3 Standard Deviation
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16.4 Summary
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17. The Source of Process Variation
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17.1 Common and Special Cause Variation
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17.2 Summary
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18. Comparing Means and Process Variation
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18.1 Multi-Vari Charts
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18.2 Summary
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19. The Normal Distribution and its Special Properties
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19.1 Normal DIstribution
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19.2 Special Properties of the Normal Distribution
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19.3 Summary
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20. Contolling Process Performance
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20.1 Sample Means and Process Means
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20.2 Run Charts
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20.3 Control Charts
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20.4 Summary
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21. Sampling and Process Control
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21.1 Sampling and Rational Subgroups
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21.2 Sampling Distibutions
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21.3 Process Control
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21.4 Sampling Plans
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21.5 Nestle
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21.6 Summary
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22. Alpha and Beta Errors
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22.1 Positioning the UCL and LCL
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22.2 Alpha Errors
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22.3 Beta Errors
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22.4 Summary
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23. Customer Expectations: LSL and USL
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23.1 Customer Expectations
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23.2 Taguchi Loss Function
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23.3 Process Capability
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23.4 Summary
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24. Six Sigma Quality Standard
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24.1 Standard Deviation and the Concept of a SIx Sigma Standard
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24.2 Summary
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25. Anticipating Problems and Risk Mitigation
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25.1 Failure Mode and Effects Analysis
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25.2 Poka-Yoke
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25.3 Summary
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26. Theory of Constraints
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26.1 Process Constraints
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26.2 Summary
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27. Management and Leadership Styles
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27.1 Management and Leadership Styles
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27.2 Summary
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28. Resistance to Change
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28.1 Resistance to Change
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28.2 Summary
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Quiz
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29. Working with Teams
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29.1 Improvement Through Teams
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29.2 Summary
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30. Implementation
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30 Eleven Steps to Implementing Continuous Improvement
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31. Review and Conclusions
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31 Review and Conclusions
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