Design Sooner or later you will be called upon to design a survey and analyze the results. How you approach these can bias your results and hence your decisions. In a series of videos, Dr. Nicola Petty of Dr. Nic’s Maths and Stats takes us through how to design a survey questionnaire and how to [...]
Cluster analysis is an extremely important set of techniques to determine groups with similar characteristics. Often cluster analysis is used to determine similar groups for marketing products. This is called market segmentation. In this excellent video, Luis Serrano, Quantum Artificial Intelligence Research Scientist, introduces the two of the most common methods for splitting data into [...]
With today’s myriad ways for generating huge amounts of data, organizations need more than ever to have a data management plan. Jared Hillam, VP of Emerging Technologies at INTRICITY, discusses the top ten mistakes made in data management. Here is his list. Flaky Data Management Plan No strategy in place for managing data Tools Used [...]
What does it take to meet your customers’ demand? How do the measures of Takt Time, Cycle Time, and Lead Time help us in meeting that demand? How can we use them to improve our processes? In this excellent video, Karl Petersen defines Takt Time, Cycle Time, and Lead Time, discusses how they are related [...]
In this incredibly instructive almost hour-long video from a webinar by ISQua’s (The International Society for Quality in Health Care) Education Channel, see how control charts are being used to analyze the COVID-19 data from states in the United States. The webinar is presented by Rocco Perla and Lloyd Provost. The presenters always look at [...]
While many meat processing plants are highly automated, many workers must process meat in close quarters. See the beef processing video from Amazing Tube. Of course, this places workers at extreme risk for catching and spreading the coronavirus. They must be supplied with masks and other personal protective equipment (PPE) as additional priorities to those [...]
On November 30, 2018, Cambridge University shared what they knew about the 1918 Flu Pandemic and what they have learned from it 100 years later. Now, scientists estimate that 50 – 100 million people died around the world. They died for two basic reasons: either from the initial flu infection or from the body’s strong [...]
Virtual Reality (VR) is not just for video games. This excellent video from Digital Engineering and Magic, provider of VR training for the Electrical Power Industry, shows you an example of what it is actually like in safety training for OSHA Standards. You can view the video here. In a recent article by Gary Forger [...]
As we transition to more online shopping and more online orders without buyers to touch and feel, a product increases the likelihood of returns. Just how should returns be processed? What does your organization do? In a short video, Wayne Belisle, Founder & Pres. of Wayne J Belisle, CPA LLC, gives a few tips on [...]
As the foundation for this blog, we refer to two very good videos on Run Charts. While both cover the same material, they are also complementary. So, we recommend you watch both. In the first video, Michael from the Quality Improvement Division of HSE Ireland covers the Run Chart. HSE (Health Service Executive) provides all [...]
