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Articles by Forrest Breyfogle

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Control Charting Integration with Process Capability and Enhanced KPI Reports

If there are common causes of variability and the product is not meeting customer needs, process improvements are needed to improve the product quality.
Forrest Breyfogle Adilson Inocencio
November 15, 2024

Traditional control charting techniques, despite their long history, can lead to wasteful outcomes due to certain mathematical properties. This article examines these issues using a Minitab dataset and introduces a free 30,000-foot-level metric-reporting app as an alternative, supported by Minitab analyses.


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Management

Rebuilding Boeing’s Quality: A New Approach to Manufacturing Excellence

The heart of Boeing’s manufacturing operations lies in its ability to deliver flawless aircraft to customers.
Forrest Breyfogle
June 10, 2024

Boeing needs to improve its manufacturing approach to prioritize transparency and continual improvement, which can also help other organizations improve their quality and bottom line.


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Benefits of Integrating Business Process Management with Lean Six Sigma

Forrest Breyfogle
January 9, 2015

Business Process Management and Lean Six Sigma can work very well together.


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Five Techniques for Reducing Manufacturing WIP: Lean Six Sigma Project Opportunity

Forrest Breyfogle
November 3, 2014

Forrest Breyfogle III discusses five ways to reduce manufacturing work in progress.


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Seven Attributes of a Control Plan for Lean Six Sigma and the Business

Forrest Breyfogle
October 8, 2014

The final step of the Lean Six Sigma process improvement roadmap is control.


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Five Tools for Process Improvement and Lean Six Sigma

Forrest Breyfogle
August 4, 2014

By integrating these tools, much can be gained in a business’ process improvement endeavors.


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Steps for Lean Six Sigma Success

Forrest Breyfogle
July 7, 2014

Organizations are successful if they incorporate structured steps for implementing Lean Six Sigma so that the enterprise as a whole benefits.


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Five Most Important Quality Metrics

Forrest Breyfogle
June 6, 2014

Managers can use metrics to keep their team focused on the most productive use of their time.


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Five Things a Quality Engineer Should Know

Forrest Breyfogle
May 2, 2014

Quality Engineers can be a more valuable asset to their organizations when they expand a silo scoping of their work efforts to orchestrate the big picture and its associated processes. 


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How to Benefit from Business Process Management (BPM)

Forrest Breyfogle
March 10, 2014
In the era where nearly everything is changing very fast, including technology, most organizations need to keep abreast of these changes, lest they become obsolete. And, it is with this same tone, that organizations are looking for ways to run their daily business operations efficiently. Business process management (BPM) techniques address this need.
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