Six Sigma Case Studies with Minitab®

by Kishore K. Pochampally, Surendra M. Gupta

What happens when one of the most widely used quality improvement methodologies meets the world’s leading statistical software for quality improvement? Packed with case studies in a variety of sectors, including health care, manufacturing, airlines, and fast food restaurants, Six Sigma Case Studies with Minitab® shows you how to maximize the quality analysis and improvement tools available in Minitab® for your Six Sigma projects.Highly illustrated, the book includes detailed steps and more than 380 screenshots that explain how to Interval EstimationHypothesis TestingChi-Square AnalysisProcess Capability AnalysisBinary Logistic RegressionItem AnalysisCluster AnalysisMixture Design and Analysis of ExperimentsMultivariate AnalysisPareto ChartsCause-and-Effect DiagramGage Repeatability and Reproducibility AnalysisTaguchi Design and Analysis of ExperimentsFactorial Design and Analysis of ExperimentsStatistical Control ChartsThe case studies demonstrate the wide range of sectors and uses for Six Sigma and Minitab®. The screenshots provide exceptional detail and the book includes explanations for many Six Sigma terms and an appendix with the contents of the Minitab® worksheets that are referred to in most of the chapters. These features and more give you the tools to meet the challenges of continuous improvement expected in today’s marketplace.

318 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 15, 2014

About the author

Kishore Kumar Pochampally

Reviews

[Darshan Shetty · Rating 3 out of 5]

I am grateful that this book exists and glad that someone tried their best to capture Six Sigma Case Studies from start to finish in a book. Somewhere maybe I misunderstood the title but this book is heavier on the "Minitab" part of than the "Six Sigma" part. It felt like some of the case studies were rushed to conclusion and not fleshed out enough. Even on the Minitab side, there were no explanations as to why certain options were selected instead of other similar options in some cases. Also please introduce colored graphs and figures for the next edition, it is very confusing to distinguish the lines of the graph in black and white. Still, I would recommend this book to anyone interested in using Minitab. The Help option on the Minitab covers most of the stuff missed by this book, so it's cool.