Effective networking at learning events
With the wide range of Operational Excellence seminars and conferences available in Ireland at the moment, there little excuse for not understanding continuous improvement best practice. This 9 minute video provides great guidance for the…
Lean Six Sigma skills in demand in the Irish Jobs Market
A quick trawl of the website IrishJobs.ie, using the search strings ‘lean’ and ‘six sigma’, for all jobs in all locations, yielded 463 and 255 hits, respectively. See https://leanireland.ie/cordatus-training-courses/. Organisations in Ireland, across all sectors, are obviously…
Tech Tip: Hypothesis testing
Have I made a difference? Often our perception deceives us when eager to identify change! Click on the title link to check out this Khan Academy video on identifying process changes with statistical confidence https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FtlH4svqx4
Improving packaging quality in Medical Device
At the Boston Scientific Costa Rica facility, packaging engineer Daniel Calvo Camacho led an effort to streamline packaging for guidewires, with the introduction of a new, smaller plastic pouch. Data collection and analysis was critical…
Tech Tip: Pareto Charting
Little did Pareto know how useful his chart would become to problem solvers. See how to construct a Pareto chart in Excel by clicking on the link https://www.pryor.com/blog/creating-a-pareto-chart-in-excel/.
National Engineers’ Week: 24th February – 2nd March 2018
Engineers Week is a week-long festival of nationwide events celebrating the world of engineering in Ireland. The annual event is coordinated on a national basis by Engineers Ireland’s STEPS programme -funded under Science Foundation Ireland’s…