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Residents of Erie County, New York faced a painful choice: raise taxes, or slash services. Then the new county executive offered a third option: use Lean Six Sigma to cut costs. Learn how the power of Minitab 15 Statistical Software helped the county's new improvement program save more than $2 million in just its first year.
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Eric Riley (Target Inc.) and Cate Twohill (Minitab) will present a deployment case study entitled “Six Sigma and Retail: How Target Is Setting New Trends in Quality Improvement” as an online Web event on July 8, 2009 at 12:00 p.m. ET. Participants will learn more about how Target is using Six Sigma to fulfill their Expect More. Pay Less.® promise.
A new research brief from the Aberdeen Group links Minitab to successful Lean Six Sigma efforts and indicates that companies using Minitab products get better results from their Lean Six Sigma programs.
Recently, a customer who needed to report detailed financial information from Quality Companion projects asked if we could enhance the Dashboard's data export capability. We thought that was a great idea. So we added that functionality to our Dashboard 3.2 update. Now that customer can create reports more easily—and so can everyone who uses the Dashboard.
As more businesses search for ways to boost efficiency—and profits—in the current economic climate, Minitab Inc. is offering a free tool on its Web site that can help quality professionals be sure they’re making the best use of their data. The tool, called the Method Chooser, can be downloaded free at http://www.minitab.com/training/tutorials/method-chooser.aspx
Using Minitab Statistical Software and Six Sigma techniques, two hospitals in the Netherlands were able to increase the efficiency of their operating rooms and make the best use of these expensive resources.
