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Tech tip: Minitab ‘Quick Start’ Web E-Learning
Minitab is providing free lessons on how to prepare and analyse different data types in the new-look Minitab Statistical Software. Click here for details.
ICBE Best Practice Visit to Coca Cola Ballina, Co. Mayo: 26th February 2020
Continuing their well-established series of best practice site visits, ICBE are leading a team of 20 people to visit Ballina Beverages. Member cost is €100 per person (to be donated to local charity). Non members may also…
IDA Achieves All FDI Targets for 2015 to 2019
In January 2020 the IDA announced that employment levels in its client companies have now reached 245,096 – the highest ever number employed in the multinational sector, exceeding targets set by Government contained in IDA…
Tech tip: Testing The Testers Using Gauge R&R
Many companies are required to prove the reliability of their test equipment & inspection processes to their customers. Click HERE to see how iStone Technologies used gauge R&R to build customer confidence.
Lean Productivity & Continuous Improvement Expo – Dublin: 29th & 30th January 2020
A two-day event for those interested in improving their business performance, productivity and cost performance. To register for free, click here. The Expo event will be run over two days on at Citywest Convention Centre, Dublin.…
Small Changes, Big Difference
Once more the people at Fastcap are showing us how to foster operator-led lean improvements. Experience 2-second Lean like you’ve never seen before. Lukas explains to Paul Akers how he shaved the process of making…
Tech tip: Hypothesis Testing
Does all that stuff about the null hypothesis and significance levels leave you cold? This dinky little video from the Khan Academy might just be the enlightenment you are seeking.
Discovering Shingo
The 2017 book, Discover Excellence: An Overview of the Shingo Model and Its Guiding Principles, provides an introduction to the Shingo Model and prepares the reader for a deeper dive into the Shingo Guiding Principles. Readers will learn the…
Using Lean Six Sigma To Reduce Emergency Waiting Times
The lean six sigma approach to improving customer service and reducing variation can apply equally to manufacturing processes (e.g. in automotive and chemical plants), service process (e.g. in finance and insurance corporations) and healthcare processes…
Tech tip: Design of Experiments
Want to learn how to identify and optimise key inputs? This 15-minute video shows how DOE can be used to assist the validation of an adhesive bond process in medical device manufacture.