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Statistics for Six Sigma Made Easy

Statistics for Six Sigma Made Easy

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Author: Warren Brussee
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Category: Book

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Sales Rank: 11854

Media: Paperback
Edition: 1
Pages: 250
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Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 7.2 x 0.8

ISBN: 0071433856
Dewey Decimal Number: 658.562
UPC: 639785385110
EAN: 9780071433853

Publication Date: May 1, 2004
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Product Description

The first plain-English guide to solving real-world problems with Six Sigma

So you're ready to improve your processes and products and satisfy your customers through Six Sigma--but you're not looking forward to navigating complicated statistics in order to get results. Now, Warren Brussee, a veteran Six Sigma manager who helped his teams generate millions of dollars in savings, explains how to use the powerful statistical tools of Six Sigma in easy-to-understand language.

In this step-by-step guide, you get a thorough overview of the Six Sigma methodology and techniques for successful implementation, as well as a clear explanation of DMAIC--the problem solving method used by Six Sigma Greenbelts for projects and process improvements. You'll see how to plot, interpret, and validate data for a Six Sigma project. You will use Excel to make Six Sigma problem-solving calculations in a wide range of areas, from sales and marketing to manufacturing, process work, equipment design, and more. Each chapter also features a brief review of what you've learned. Plus, you get:

  • A simplified form of the most common Six Sigma tools
  • All the basic Six Sigma formulas and tables
  • Dozens of Six Sigma statistical problem-solving case studies
  • A matrix for finding the right statistical tool to meet your needs
  • Basic Greenbelt training in one concise reference

Best of all, no background in statistics is required--you can start improving quality and initiating cost-saving improvements right away. With all these benefits and authoritative guidance, Statistics for Six Sigma Made Easy is the only reference you need to facilitate real-world application of Six Sigma tools.




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5 out of 5 stars A Truly Unique and Friendly Six Sigma Book   February 26, 2006
Dedicated Black Belt
55 out of 55 found this review helpful

I am a Black Belt and program manager at a Fortune 100 company. I use and teach Six Sigma regularly, and I strongly believe in the power of this methodology. However, Six Sigma can be complex, bureaucratic, and confusing. This sometimes makes it difficult to get buy-in from others.

I constantly search for books that make Six Sigma easier to use and understand. I have used Brussee's Statistics for Six Sigma Made Easy for over a year and have found no other book as successful in making Six Sigma truly useable for those who don't plan to make Six Sigma their life's major undertaking. Not everyone wants to be a Six Sigma Black Belt!

The author has simplified many of the Six Sigma tools, with no reduction in their usefulness. In fact, the simplification on the QFDs and the FMEAs make them MORE useful, because they aren't so tedious and boring. And the Simplified Gauge Verification, which incorporates aim into the formula, makes the output far more meaningful.

Testing for statistical significance, which in most Six Sigma books is either skipped completely or treated with the same complexity as in a high-level statistics book, is incorporated as a straight-forward test, with no unnecessary jargon. And all calculations can be done with Excel. Although I feel comfortable using Six Sigma specific software, I find that most people who are not doing Six Sigma calculations on a daily basis are much more comfortable using Excel.

The included Six Sigma case studies seem to indicate that the author has truly lived through Six Sigma projects, not just observed them as a consultant. As someone who has to live with the results of their work for many years, I appreciate this difference.

I think that Brussee's approach to Six Sigma will become the standard as this valuable methodology continues to be incorporated into more industrial and non-industrial processes. I highly recommend this book.

Dedicated Black Belt



5 out of 5 stars Masterful   October 23, 2005
A New Tech
22 out of 27 found this review helpful

This is a masterful and successful attempt to make the complicated statistics associated with six sigma and QC in general much easier to grasp and use. This book provides options.

You can, for example, spend days or weeks figuring out how to apply the house of quality to a problem using traditional methods, or you can strip the analysis down to the basics (as illustrated here) and end up in the same place in a few hours. Companies should buy this book by the boxload and pass it out with the paychecks. Payoff on the investment should only take a few days.



5 out of 5 stars Highly recommended!!   August 7, 2006
dolcetta (VA United States)
11 out of 12 found this review helpful

Brussee's Statistics for Six Sigma Made Easy is a wonderful "how to" text for six sigma stat tools that is very readable, and usable, by anyone with at least a high school level background in mathematics. He has done a great job of simplifying much of what a Green Belt would use from the Six Sigma toolkit, and he presents the material in a format highly conducive to application. The result is a valuable statistics manual for the Six Sigma implementer.


5 out of 5 stars Recommended for Managers of all levels   July 9, 2007
Julia Gubina (Voronezh, Russia)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful

I like the level of detalization in this book and simple language explaining the concept, application of statistics, and Sigma methods. The value of this book from my practical point of view is the Case Studies which help to better understand when and how statistics for Six Sigma can be used.


5 out of 5 stars Facil de leer y de entender, un texto magnifico   September 17, 2007
Antonio Valle (Barcelona, Spain)
3 out of 5 found this review helpful

Es un libro de altisima calidad, escrito en un lenguaje simple y facil de entender. Altamente recomendable para todo aquel que quiera introducirse en los conceptos de SixSigma


 
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