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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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