Lean Six Sigma Academy

First of all, Happy Easter!  My family and I were in Oklahoma the last few days.  As is very typical with me during road trips,…

Close to one year ago I started this little blog with the post Lean or Six Sigma?. Truth be told I wasn’t quite sure what…

Welcome to LSS Academy!

If you found this website via Google or some other method you may be wondering what this lean and six sigma stuff…

Design of Experiments (DOE) are perhaps the single most powerful tool I have found to screen, characterize, and optimize a process. For an introduction to…

Last night we discussed the Taguchi Loss Function and how Taguchi methods are more concerned with hitting the target compared to more traditional methods that often…

Saying the words “Genichi Taguchi” to a hard core “western statistician” may get you some dirty looks. Actually, some of these crazy statisticians may want…