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Data Collection Plan Template
The main reason behind a data collection plan is to provide a focused approach to data collection for any given study or project. It helps specify the objective of the data collection, what data is needed, how to collect it, and who will collect…
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Yokoten: Enhancing Performance Through Best Practice Sharing
Also known as Horizontal Deployment and Sideways Expansion. Variants include Suggestion System. A Best Practice is that practice that has been proved to produce the best results consistently. It is the best-known way of doing something and has the potential to be replicated internally and externally.…
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Driving Continuous Improvement with Standard Work and SOPs
Also known as standardized work and Standardization. Variants include Interchangeability. Standard work means working on standards to produce correct and consistent results. It is considered a way to achieve the highest possible degree of consistency and reliability in any process. It aims to ensure…
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Questionnaire Analysis Report
After collecting the completed questionnaires from your respondents, the next important step is to carefully analyze the collected data and report the findings. This questionnaire analysis report template is designed to analyze the collected qualitative data from a large number of individuals and summarize…
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Pareto Chart Template
The purpose of the Pareto chart is to address the most significant elements within a given set, such as the highest occurring type of defect, the most frequent reasons for customer complaints, and so on. It normally combines an ordered bar chart and a…
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Cause and Effect Matrix Template
The cause-and-effect matrix is used to understand the relationship between causes and effects. When an output variable deviates from its specified parameters, that is an effect. When an effect goes out of specification, it becomes important to prioritize potential causes based on their significance.…
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Normality Testing in Minitab
The Normal Distribution is the commonest and the most useful continuous probability distribution. Many statistical tests require that the distribution is normal or nearly normal. Several tools are available to assess the normality of data including: using a histogram to visually explore the data,…
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Probability Distributions in Minitab
There are different shapes, models and classifications of probability distributions including the ones discussed in the probability distributions article. It is always a good practice to know the distribution of your data before proceeding with your analysis. Once you find the appropriate model, you…
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Normal Distribution
Continuous distributions describe variables that take values from a continuous range and can be measured with any degree of accuracy. The commonest and the most useful continuous distribution is the normal distribution. The Normal Distribution is a symmetrical probability distribution where most results are…