| Materials Provided by MoreSteam: |
 | Design-Ease Software for Design of Experiments by Stat-Ease |
 | Mark J. Anderson and Patrick J. Whitcomb, DOE Simplified - Practical Tools for Effective Experimentation (Productivity, Inc. 2000).
ISBN: 1-56327-225-3
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 | Microsoft Excel® templates for statistical analysis - available as downloads within the course material. |
The DOE software and book will be shipped to your mailing address within two weeks of starting the course. Non-U.S.Customers: Please note that you will be responsible to pay any local customs duties or taxes. The value of the software and book is approximately $600. A memo invoice will be included in the shipment for customs purposes.
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| Materials Provided by Student/Company: |
 | General Purpose Statistics Software is useful but not necessary. Excel templates are provided by the course for statistical analysis. If you do not have a statistics package, options range from free internet downloads to higher-end packages like Minitab, Statistica, JMP etc. You can download a 30-day evaluation copy of most statistics packages over the web. |
 | Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Powerpoint) for Windows, English version. Office 2007 or higher is recommended. Non-English versions are not compatible with those templates using Macros. |
Optional Materials: |
 | Microsoft Project, Microsoft Visio |
 | Rath & Strong's Six Sigma Pocket Guide (Rath & Strong, Inc; Spiral edition, October 17, 2000)
ISBN: 0970507909
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 | W. Edwards Deming, Out Of The Crisis (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Center for Advanced Engineering Study 1982, 1986)
ISBN: 0-911379-01-0
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 | Senge, Ross, Smith, Roberts, Kleiner, The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook - Strategies and Tools for Building a Learning Organization (Currency Doubleday, 1994) ISBN: 0-385-47256-0 Recommended for coverage of System Dynamics.
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 | Peter S. Pande, Robert P. Neuman, Roland R. Cavanagh, The Six Sigma Way (McGraw-Hill 2000)
ISBN: 0-07-135806-4
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