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 A typical college football teams plays 12 games, each of which has 60 minutes of running clock time, for a total of 12 hours. During the season, the team practices approximately 380 hours (this would probably be higher if not limited by the NCAA). The ratio of practice to play is therefore 32:1. Lean Six Sigma deployments have never approached this ratio of practice to performance. During recessionary periods like these, there is even more pressure to quickly produce effective Belts who can produce results to deliver to the bottom line.
Learn how Cardinal Health is using the newly developed SigmaBrew DMAIC simulation to produce confident Belts with enough experience to complete projects fast. Cardinal is an $87 billion global manufacturer and distributor of healthcare supplies and technologies with over 40,000 employees across the world. The company has a relentless focus on making healthcare safer and more productive. Zero errors. Zero waste. Zero lost revenue. Zero of the challenges that divert focus from patient care.
 Join Holly Stein, Director of Operational Excellence at Cardinal Health and Bill Hathaway, Founder and CEO of MoreSteam.com for a free hour-long webinar. Holly will give an overview of Cardinal's worldwide Lean Six Sigma deployment and share her Top Ten Insights about simulations as part of a blended learning model. Just click on the link below to register.
Thursday, February 19, 2009 11:00 AM - Noon
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When Simulation is Valuable
Q: In a free fall, how long would it take to reach the ground from a height of 1,000 feet?
A: I have never performed this experiment.
- Greg Kochanski, “Monte Carlo Simulation” 2005 |
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Statistics and Simulation |
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Stochastic simulation has played an increasingly large role in statistics with rapid increases in computing power. Simulations are used to model complicated processes, estimate distributions of estimators (using methods such as bootstrap), and have dramatically increased the use of an entire field of statistics, Bayesian statistics, since simulation can be used to estimate the distribution of its statistics, which are usually analytically intractable except in the simplest situations.
So what is ‘stochastic simulation’? Stochastic simulation, a.k.a. Monte Carlo simulation, is the use of random number generators to produce data from a mathematical model. A random number generator is any process that produces data whose observations are independent and identically distributed (i.i.d) from some distribution. It is a method used to evaluate processes or systems using probabilities based on sampling repeatedly from randomly generated numbers.
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In support of Blended Learning, MoreSteam.com has created the SigmaSim suite of Lean Six Sigma simulations. We’ve updated our Web site materials to on these products, and wse’ve included free resources on business simulations and an of explanation why simulations are necessary for deployments. The resources page includes online simulation examples, white papers, and presentations.
Let Monty Python introduce the 5 Whys tool
Asking the right questions is the key to root cause analysis. Liven up your next training session by showing an example of someone who leads a mob (your project team?) through a classic line of questioning.
Inaugural MoreSteam Alumni Association Meeting
We are pleased to announce the launch of your MoreSteam Alumni Association (MAA), an active learning community of like-minded Six Sigma practitioners. We invite all current and former MoreSteam students to join and actively participate in the Alumni Association. Members will receive exclusive deals, conference discounts, and free, practical LSS resources before they are publicly available. The best news --- no dues! And, we won't be calling you to contribute to the MoreSteam University Endowment Campaign (unless you really want to!).
Over the next few months, we'll unveil additional details of this organization. To receive news directly, please join our MoreSteam Alumni Association Group on LInkedIn (www.linkedin.com). If you're not a member of LinkedIn, then send a request to alum@moresteam.com for MAA information. |
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