Celebrating American Manufacturing

Author: Russ Aikman
While many parts of the U.S. are struggling due to the pandemic, the manufacturing sector has remained steadfast. Firms have adapted to the ‘new normal’ by expanding their existing safety programs to encompass best practices to limit risk. The use of masks, social distancing, checking employee temperatures and other methods have become commonplace.
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The Three-Legged Stool

Sometimes despite your best efforts and a lot of hard work you don’t get the expected results when working on continuous improvement. This can be very frustrating, especially when you are new to Lean Six Sigma. Imagine yourself in each of the following three scenarios. Scenario 1: Your company has offered you the opportunity to … Read more

John Tukey, Unsung Man of Science

Author: Russ Aikman
Many of the core concepts of statistical and quality analysis were developed in the early to mid-20th century by a relatively small number of individuals including Ronald Fisher, Karl Pearson, Walter Shewhart, and W. Edwards Deming. Less well known is American mathematician and statistician John Wilder Tukey (1915-2000).
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Size of the Effect in Treating COVID-19

Author: Russ Aikman
With COVID-19 still causing thousands of deaths worldwide (over half a million as of this writing) the search for a vaccine and a treatment continues at hospitals around the globe. A breakthrough on treatment of some patients was announced back on June 16th when doctors at Oxford University posted research on the steroid dexamethasone.
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We Must Adapt … but How?

Author: Diana Martinez, Ph.D.
Constant adaptability has always been essential for survival but the need for it has probably never been greater than nowadays (at least in our lifetime)! In this blog, I will focus specifically on my experience at TMAC in adapting to delivering services remotely for our customers.
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ANOVA for All Occasions

Authors: Diana Martinez, Ph.D. and Satya Kudapa
Analysis of Variance – commonly shortened to ANOVA – was introduced by the British statistician Sir Ronald Fisher (1890-1962) in 1925. An extremely useful tool for LSS practitioners, ANOVA is a type of hypothesis test to determine whether the means of different populations are the same or different, based on sample data. Note that, despite its name, ANOVA is NOT used to tell if there is a difference in the variance of different populations.
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The Move Online for LSS

Since the start of 2020 TMAC staff have been very busy with Lean Six Sigma work including four different classes (two GBs, one BB, and one MBB), coaching of over 40 belts, preparing for the Lean & Six Sigma World conference, not to mention leading kaizen events and mapping sessions for various customers. Our schedule … Read more

Champion Roundtable Recap

Author: Russ Aikman
In January TMAC hosted our 4th Annual Lean Six Sigma Deployment Champion Roundtable. The Roundtable is a 1.5 day mini-conference focused on the goals, challenges, activities, and successes of individuals leading a Lean Six Sigma Program. At this year’s Roundtable we had representatives of 13 different companies.
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