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Process Improvement Foundations

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Learn how to better manage the processes—and thus the outcomes—of your project or business.

Syllabus

Introduction

What is process improvement?

1. Measuring Your Processes

Measuring and managing
Measuring the right thing
How to measure process improvement
Using statistical process control (SPC)
Setting action limits: Performance figures
Setting action limits: Median moving range

2. Improving Your Processes

Optimizing your quality, costs, and time tradeoff
Understanding the real cost of quality
Reducing cost by reducing waste
Understanding lead time
Improving time business process reengineering
Challenge: Balancing lines and flow
Solution: Balancing lines and flow
Improving time performance: Bottlenecks
Improving time performance: Queues
Reducing lead time using a pull approach to reduce buffers
Thinking about your batch sizes
Improving quality and cost through team projects
Looking briefly at Lean and Six Sigma

Conclusion

Final thoughts

Taught by

Chris Croft

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