Lean Review
Minitab
Overview of LSS
Metrics
Odds and Ends
100

Any person or organization that receives a product or service (output) from the work activities (Process)

What is a Customer

100

The 3 "windows" in Minitab. 

What are Worksheet (or Data sheet), Output, and Navigator?

100

A process improvement methodology focused on identifying and eliminating waste to create "process flow"

What is Lean?

100

Provide an EXAMPLE emphasizing the difference between a defect and a defective that was NOT previously discussed yesterday (does not need to be in the form of a question)

Answers will vary

100

A clear, unambiguous meaning of a metric or term.

What is an Operational Definition

200

The three categories of customers

What are Internal, External, and Regulatory

200
This graph uses the 80/20 Principle to plot attribute data.
What is Pareto?
200

A process improvement methodology focused on reducing variation to create consistent, defect-free processes.

What is Six Sigma?

200

a single attribute on a unit that is inspected to see if it is good or bad (a chance for a defect to occur)

What is an opportunity?

200

These are the two components of change management.

Also, this is the hardest of the two.

What is Change and Transition

Also, what is Transition (managing the psychological reactions to change that the people impacted by the change may have)

300

This is the difference between Processing Time and Lead Time

What is Wait time 

(Lead time = Processing time + Wait time)

300
This is the only graph in Minitab discussed yesterday that shows "statistically significant" outliers.
What is Boxplot?
300

This is an explanation of Y=F(X), using an EXAMPLE, that your grandmother would understand

Answers will vary

300

10 insurance claims are evaluated for payment. A total of 40 bad line items are found on the claims.  If there are 10 line items on each claim, this is the DPU.

What is 4 defects per unit?

300

Good data collection planning should start with these

What are the questions you want to be able to answer with the data that you do not yet have?

400

The 3 requirements that must be met for a task or activity to be considered "Value Added"

What are: a) Changes/transforms the product or service, b) in a way the customer recognizes is needed and is willing to pay for it, and c) it is done correctly the first time

400
This tool shows how a process metric is changing over time (trends, shifts, and patterns).
What is Time Series graph?
400

The 5 step methodology to work through a Lean or Six Sigma project.

What is DMAIC?

400

A Green Belt is looking at the number of patient health screenings that were missed out of the number that could/should have been performed.  The quality metric for this project is a ______ percentage.


What is a Defective Percentage?

400

This is why continuous data is preferred over discrete data (when possible)

What is continuous data provides degrees of goodness/badness, where discrete data does not

500

These are the other two categories of "value" besides "Value Added"

What are Non Value Added (NVA) and Business Value Added (BVA or Necessary NVA)?

500

MINITAB WORK!  Open data file Clinic Wait Times (support file folder).  Using graphs learned yesterday determine if there are differences in centering or spread between the different clinic's wait times. 

Difference in centering - Yes

Difference in Spread - Yes

Tools that can be used: boxplot, dot plot, histogram with groups, others

500

This is the DPMO number associated with a process that has 6 Sigma level quality

What is 3.4 defects per million opportunities?

500

An inspection of 250 claims at TCH revealed a total of 20 defects. Each claim was audited for 8 characteristics, each of which is considered an opportunity. This is the DPMO.

What is 10,000 DPMO?

500
A Minitab tool used to graphically identify how two continuous variables change in relation to one another: Y vs. X
What is a Scatterplot?