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ROI President Steve Ouellette writes a popular monthly article for Quality Digest's InsideSixSigma online newsletter. These articles humorously (and usefully) discuss the good, the bad, and the ugly of how Six Sigma is implemented. You can access those articles here.

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1 Destructive Gauges and Measurement System Analysis Monday, 10 May 2010 96
2 Performing a Long-Term MSA Study Tuesday, 23 March 2010 131
3 Performing a Short-Term MSA Study Tuesday, 09 February 2010 266
4 The Mystery Measurement Theatre Thursday, 14 January 2010 273
5 Letting You In on a Little Secret (MSA) Monday, 30 November 2009 362
6 You Might Be a Black Belt If... Monday, 19 October 2009 288
7 Why Doesn’t SPC Work, Part 4 Monday, 21 September 2009 352
8 Why Doesn't SPC Work? Part 3 Wednesday, 19 August 2009 315
9 Why Doesn't SPC Work? Part 2 Tuesday, 21 July 2009 331
10 Why Doesn't SPC Work? Part 1 Monday, 22 June 2009 382
11 Last Things First Friday, 15 May 2009 307
12 Project Selection for DMAIC Monday, 20 April 2009 345
13 Acceptable Losses? Wednesday, 12 November 2008 451
14 New Year's Resolution Tuesday, 17 February 2009 515
15 Six Sigma in Hard Economic Times Wednesday, 17 December 2008 449
16 Psst, hey buddy! Wanna fix? Wednesday, 22 October 2008 423
17 No News is Not Good News Wednesday, 20 August 2008 795
18 Keeping It Real Wednesday, 18 June 2008 722
19 Will Google Earn a Black Belt? Wednesday, 16 July 2008 769
20 Six Sigma and the Corner Office Wednesday, 21 May 2008 1087
 
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Random Heresy

One of the most useful diagnostic tools for understanding what is going on in a process is the statistical process control chart (SPC). This is also a frequently misunderstood tool, and these misunderstandings lead to misdirected effort during a Six Sigma process, resulting in lost time and money. All the questions related to these foiled efforts boil down to this, “I used my software to make a control chart, but the chart looks all messed up. Why doesn’t SPC work?”

It does, if you avoid some common pitfalls. So today, I am kicking off a few articles about these pitfalls that I hope will make your projects less frustrating and more efficient.

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In the News

Six Sigma's lead instructor Steven Ouellette wrote an article with Dr. Jeffrey Luftig on "The Decline of Ethical Behavior in Business."

 


 

Six Sigma Online's lead instructor Steven Ouellette was profiled in the June 2008 issue of Quality Digest magazine. If you want to learn more about Steve's peculiar view of the world, as well as what he studied for a year in Europe, read the profile online.