Table of contents
- Six Sigma Certification FAQs
- Six Sigma Belt BOK Articles
- Six Sigma Study Guide Testimonials
- Six Sigma Basics Articles
- Lean Basics Articles
- Six Sigma Define Phase Articles
- Six Sigma Measure Phase Articles
- Six Sigma Analyze Phase Articles
- Six Sigma Improve Phase Articles
- Six Sigma Control Phase Articles
- Six Sigma Career Articles
- Six Sigma Newsletter Articles
- Six Sigma Case Study Articles
Six Sigma Certification FAQs
Six Sigma Certification Process
- Can I Get Certified In Six Sigma?
- How to Find Qualified Six Sigma Projects
- What are the Most Recognized Six Sigma Certifications?
- What Pre-requisites Are Needed for a Six Sigma Green Belt?
Six Sigma Belt Levels and Paths
- A Six Sigma Belt Road Map
- Help me decide! Six Sigma Yellow Belt or Green Belt (or even Black Belt) ???
- Legitimacy of Six Sigma On-Line Exams
Six Sigma Exam Preparation
- Am I Ready to Take a Six Sigma Certification Exam?
- Avoiding The Path to Six Sigma Certification Studying Frustration
- How do I Remember all of this Six Sigma Exam Material?
- How Do You Know When You’re Ready to Sit a Six Sigma Certification Exam
- How I Passed the ASQ Six Sigma Black Belt Exam
- How I Passed the Villanova Six Sigma Black Belt Exam
- How Much Study Time Do You Need for Six Sigma Certification
- How to Self-Study for a Six Sigma Certification Exam
- How to Study for the ASQ Six Sigma Certification After Passing a Different One
- How to Study Six Sigma
- Visualizing Six Sigma Concepts
- What Kind of Calculator to Use on Six Sigma Exams?
- What To Do If You Didn’t Pass Your Six Sigma Exam
Six Sigma Belt BOK Articles
- Six Sigma Yellow Belt Guides
- Six Sigma Green Belt Bodies of Knowledge
- Six Sigma Black Belt Guides Bodies
- IASSC Equation Sheet
Six Sigma Study Guide Testimonials
- Bryan’s Tips on Passing His Six Sigma Green Belt Certification Exam
- How Dan S. Passed the Villanova Lean Six Sigma Black Belt Exam
- How Dan V Passed the ASQ Six Sigma Green Belt Exam
- How Dana Passed the ASQ Six Sigma Green Belt & IASSC Black Belt
- How Jon Passed the ASQ Six Sigma Green Belt Exam
- How Larry Passed his IASSC Six Sigma Green Belt Exam
- How Patrick Passed His ASQ Six Sigma Green Belt Exam
Six Sigma Basics Articles
- Balanced Scorecard and Dashboard
- Critical Success Factors for Six Sigma
- Design for X (DFX)
- Genichi Taguchi
- History of Six Sigma Study Guide
- Joseph M. Juran
- Six Sigma Black Belt
- Six Sigma Green Belt
- Six Sigma Master Black Belt
- Walter A Shewhart
- What is Six Sigma?
- William Edwards Deming
Lean Basics Articles
- 5S Workplace Organization
- Classic Wastes
- History of Lean
- How is Lean Different from Six Sigma?
- Kaizen
- Kanban
- Lean Concepts Study Guide
- Lean Metrics
- Lean Overview
- Poka-Yoke Error-proofing
- Push-Pull System
- Quick Changeovers (SMED) Single Minute Exchange of Die
- Spaghetti Diagram
- Standard Work
- Takt Time
- Theory of Constraints (TOC)
- Value Stream Mapping
- Visual Factory
Six Sigma Define Phase Articles
- 7M Tools/ 7 Management tools
- A3 Report
- Activity Network Diagram
- Affinity Diagram (or K-J method)
- Brainstorming
- Business Process Management
- Causal Theory y=f(x)
- Communications Plan
- Cost of Poor Quality (COPQ)
- Critical Path Method (CPM)
- Critical to Cost (CTC)
- Critical to Customer (CTC)
- Critical to Quality (CTQ)
- Critical to Quality Tree (CTQ)
- Critical to Safety (CTS)
- Critical to X (CTX)
- Customer Identification
- Customer Retention & Satisfaction
- Define Phase (DMAIC)
- DMAIC Tollgate Reviews
- Financial Measures in Six Sigma
- Gantt Chart
- Groupthink
- How to Define a Process
- Interrelationship Digraph (Network Diagram)
- Kano Model
- Matrix Diagram
- Multivoting
- Nominal Group Technique
- Plan Do Check Act Cycle
- Process Decision Program Charts (PDPC)
- Process Performance Metrics
- Program Evaluation and Review Technique (PERT)
- Project Charter
- Project Management Metrics
- Project Management Tools
- Project Plan
- Project Priority Matrix (Prioritization Matrix)
- Project Responsibility Matrix
- Project Tracking Tools
- Quality Function Deployment (QFD) and House of Quality (HOQ)
- Risk Analysis and Mitigation
- Selecting Six Sigma Projects
- SIPOC
- Six Sigma Project Management
- Six Sigma Roles and Responsibilities Study Guide
- Six Sigma Teams
- SMART Goals
- Stages of Team Growth
- Stakeholder Analysis
- Supply Chain Management
- Team Conflict: Prevention and Resolution
- Team Dynamics, Mechanics & Communications
- Tree Diagram
- Types of Teams
- Voice of Customer, Voice of Client (VOC)
- What is Quality?
- Work breakdown structure (WBS)
Six Sigma Measure Phase Articles
- Basic Six Sigma Probability
- Basic Six Sigma Statistics
- Benchmarking
- Bimodal Distribution
- Binomial Distribution
- Box Cox Transformation
- Box Plots (aka Box and Whisker Plots)
- Cause and Effect Diagram (aka Ishikawa, Fishbone)
- Cause and Effect Matrix aka X-Y Diagram aka Correlation Matrix
- Central Limit Theorem
- Central Tendency
- Check Sheet
- Chi Square Distribution & Hypothesis Test
- Cumulative Sum Chart (CUSUM)
- Data Collection
- Data Collection Form
- Data Collection Plan
- Data Distributions
- Data Sampling Techniques & Uses
- Defects vs Defectives
- Dispersion
- Evaluating the Measurement Systems (EMP Studies)
- Exponential Distribution
- F-Distribution, F-Statistic, F-Test
- Failure Mode Effects Analysis (FMEA)
- Frequency Plots
- Gage Repeatability and Reproducibility (R&R)
- Graphical Analysis
- Histogram
- How Do You Know if a Process Is Following a Normal Distribution?
- How to Define a Process
- How to Determine Baseline Project Sigma
- Hypergeometric Distribution
- Kinds of Statistics
- Measure Phase (DMAIC)
- Measurement Systems Analysis (MSA)
- Normal Distribution (AKA Gaussian Probability Distribution)
- Normal Probability Plot
- One Sample T Hypothesis Test (Student’s T-Test)
- Pareto Chart (Pareto Diagram)
- Point and Interval Estimation
- Poisson Distribution
- Process Capability (Cp & Cpk)
- Process Capability & Performance (Pp, Ppk, Cp, Cpk)
- Process Control for Non-Normal Data
- Process Mapping
- Process Maps and Flow Chart Symbols
- Process Performance Pp and Ppk
- Quincunx Demonstration
- Run Chart: Creation, Analysis, & Rules
- Sample Size
- Sampling Without Replacement (Deprecated)
- Scales of Measurement
- Scatter Diagrams (Plots), Analysis & Regression
- SIPOC
- Spaghetti Diagram
- Specification Limits
- Standard Deviation
- Stem and Leaf Plots
- T Distributions & T Tests
- Target Values
- Types of Data
- Value Stream Mapping
- Z Score and Process Capability
- Z Scores (Z Value) & Z Table
- Z Scores and Process Sigma
Six Sigma Analyze Phase Articles
- 1 Sample Sign Non Parametric Hypothesis Test
- 1 Sample Wilcoxon Non Parametric Hypothesis Test
- 5 Whys
- 6M’s in Six Sigma (Six Ms or 5Ms and one P or 5M1P)
- A3 Report
- Affinity Diagram (or K-J method)
- Analyze Phase (DMAIC)
- ANOVA Analysis of Variation
- Basic Hypothesis Testing Process
- Box Cox Transformation
- Canonical Correlation Analysis
- Cause and Effect Diagram (aka Ishikawa, Fishbone)
- Chi Square Distribution & Hypothesis Test
- Confidence Intervals
- Confounding
- Contingency Tables
- Data Analysis
- Design of Experiments Study Guide
- Design of Experiments Terminology
- Design of Experiments: Blocking
- Errors in Hypothesis Testing
- F-Distribution, F-Statistic, F-Test
- Factorial Design Overview
- Factors in an Experiment
- Failure Mode Effects Analysis (FMEA)
- Fault Tree Analysis
- Frequency Plots
- Friedman Non Parametric Hypothesis Test
- Full Factorial Design
- Gap Analysis
- Goodness of Fit
- Graphical Analysis
- Hypothesis Testing Overview
- Hypothesis Testing Terminology
- Hypothesis Tests Study Guide
- Interrelationship Digraph (Network Diagram)
- Kruskal–Wallis Non Parametric Hypothesis Test
- Linear Regression
- Mann-Whitney Hypothesis Test
- Mood’s Median Non Parametric Hypothesis Test
- Multi-Vari Study, Multi-Vari Charts
- Multiple Linear Regression
- Non-Linear Regression, aka Attributes Data Analysis
- Non-Parametric Hypothesis Tests and Data Analysis
- One and Two Sample Z Proportion Hypothesis Tests
- One Sample T Hypothesis Test (Student’s T-Test)
- One Sample Z Hypothesis Test
- P-Values
- Paired T-Distribution, Paired T-Test, Paired Comparison Test, Paired Sample Test
- Point and Interval Estimation
- Regression Analysis
- Root Cause Analysis
- Sample Size
- Scatter Diagrams (Plots), Analysis & Regression
- Single Sample Test Of a Given Proportion
- Sum of Squares (SS)
- T Distributions & T Tests
- Tailed Hypothesis Tests
- Takt Time
- Two Sample T Hypothesis Tests
- Two Sample Z Hypothesis Tests
- Two Sample Z Test of Proportions
- Value Stream Mapping
- Variation
- What is the probability of a defect?
- Yates Analysis
Six Sigma Improve Phase Articles
- 5S Workplace Organization
- Activity Network Diagram
- Brainstorming
- Classic Wastes
- Confounding
- Design of Experiments Study Guide
- Design of Experiments Terminology
- Design of Experiments: Blocking
- Evolutionary Operations Methodology (EVOP)
- Factorial Design Overview
- Factors in an Experiment
- Full Factorial Design
- Implementation Plan
- Improve Phase (DMAIC)
- Kaizen
- Kanban
- Lean Concepts Study Guide
- Lean Metrics
- Lean Overview
- Main Effects Plot
- Measurement Systems Analysis (MSA)
- Other Designed Experiment Types
- Partial and Fractional Factorial Design
- Pilot Plan
- Process Decision Program Charts (PDPC)
- Project Priority Matrix (Prioritization Matrix)
- Pugh Analysis
- Quick Changeovers (SMED) Single Minute Exchange of Die
- Response Surface Modeling
- Risk Analysis and Mitigation
- Theory of Constraints (TOC)
- TRIZ – The Theory of Inventive Problem Solving
Six Sigma Control Phase Articles
- Attribute Chart: c Chart
- Attribute Chart: np Chart
- Attribute Chart: u Chart
- Attribute Charts
- Attribute Charts: p Chart
- Control Charts Study Guide
- Control Charts: Keep those Six Sigma DMAIC Improvements
- Control Phase (DMAIC)
- Control Plan
- Cumulative Sum Chart (CUSUM)
- EWMA – Exponentially Weighted Moving Average Chart
- I-MR Chart
- Maintaining Solutions
- Plan Do Check Act Cycle
- Poka-Yoke Error-proofing
- Process Capability & Performance (Pp, Ppk, Cp, Cpk)
- Process Characterization
- Process Control for Non-Normal Data
- Rational Sub Grouping
- Response Plan
- Run Chart: Creation, Analysis, & Rules
- Six Sigma Documentation
- Specification Limits
- Statistical Process Control (SPC)
- Visual Factory
- X Bar R Control Charts
- X Bar S Control Chart
- XmR Chart
Six Sigma Career Articles
- How Can Someone Starting Out in Quality Succeed?
- How to Find Six Sigma Teaching Opportunities
- How to Get a Job as a Six Sigma Black Belt
- How to Prepare for a Job as a Six Sigma Black Belt
- Is Six Sigma the Right Career Path for Me?
- What Kind of Jobs are Six Sigma Belts Qualified for?
Six Sigma Newsletter Articles
- The Six Fix #018: Six Sigma Case Study: Economic Development Education Program
- The Six Fix #017: How to Gain Trust
- The Six Fix #016: Abandoned Carts? This E-commerce Store Solved It (Using Six Sigma!)
- The Six Fix #015: How to Beat the Trough of Disillusionment with Checklists
- The Six Fix #014: Publish or Perish- The Feynman Technique
- The Six Fix #013: Fundamentals of Modern Leverage
- The Six Fix #012: Clear Eyes, Full Heart, Can’t Lose
- The Six Fix #011: The Resolution Conundrum
- The Six Fix #010: Leveraging DMAIC in Health Care
- The Six Fix #009: The Fastest Way to Pass a Six Sigma Exam
- The Six Fix #008: Process Improvement in a Furniture Factory ??
- The Six Fix #007: Don’t Let Lack of Motivation Stop You From Passing Your Six Sigma Certification Exam
- The Six Fix #006: My Journey to Passing the ASQ Six Sigma Black Belt Exam
- The Six Fix #005: How Six Sigma is Adapting to Industry 4.0?
- TSF #004: Six Sigma in “Modern” Industries and How Dan Passed the Six Sigma Black Belt.
- TSF #003: Practical Six Sigma Applications and Success Stories
- TSF #002: Telecom Lean Six Sigma Case Study
- TSF #001: The Six Fix
Six Sigma Case Study Articles
- AAF Case Study: Creating a Project Charter
- AAF Case Study: Defining Project Scope
- AAF Case Study: Securing Executive Support
- AAF Case Study: Applying Six Sigma to a Car Service Company
- Can You Actually Run a Six Sigma Project?
- Dealing with Illogical Sponsors
- How Advanced Control Charts Can Save Our Schools – And How They Improved My Own Teaching
- How Control Charts Made Me a Better Teacher
- How Lean Six Sigma Saved My Teaching Career
- How Root Cause Analysis Can Transform Lives
- How Six Sigma Can Help Perfect Tech Support
- How the Pareto Principle Can Give Us All the Wisdom of Solomon
- How the Pareto Principle Can Improve Our Daily Lives
- The Science of Encouraging High Performance
- Using Six Sigma in Process Management
- What is the probability of a defect?