Data Analysis with Minitab – Onsite
- Interactive onsite workshops
- Case study data sets
- Minitab exercises & quizzes
- Course notes and practice data files for participants
Practical course work
Interactive Q&A
Downloadable Presentations & Data Files
Certificate of Completion
What is this course about?
The ability to analyse and control performance is an essential requirement for the effective management of processes that deliver value to customers. Process control involves observation, data collection, tabulation, graphical representation and both qualitative and quantitative analysis.
This 2-day onsite data analysis course aims to give participants a solid grounding in the basics of data collection, graphing and analysis techniques in Minitab. Participants will be introduced to the Minitab statistical software application, and will learn when and where to use analysis techniques in order to aid decision making. It will enable participants to develop standards with regards to data collection, analysis and reporting appropriate for their processes.
This course is offered on an in-company basis only i.e. all candidates are from the one organisation. The course content is customised to meet the organisation’s need, at no extra cost. The course is offered using Minitab, and is also offered in SAS JMP software. All Lean Ireland tutors are certified Lean Six Sigma black belts with several years’ experience in facilitating workshops in a wide variety of sectors. We are available for post-course support with data analysis, as required.
Looking for more information ? Call us now on +353 91 870708, we’re always happy to help guide you and discuss our courses in more detail.
What Will You Achieve?
At the end of the course, you will
- Understand data types and the importance of appropriate data collection methods;
- Understand the nature and relevance of descriptive statistics in process performance measurement;
- Understand how to establish and review statistical process control charts for variable and attribute data;
- Be able to define process capability and understand the difference between control and capability;
- Understand when and where each tool is best applied, and
- Be able to use Minitab as an everyday tool in support of data analysis and control.
The course is case study based. Participants will require laptops preloaded with Minitab. A 30 day free Minitab trial is available online at Minitab.com, if a candidate does not have immediate access to Minitab in-house.
On completion, you will receive a Lean Ireland certificate of completion.
What Topics Will Be Covered?
- Introductions
- Introduction to Minitab, worksheets & displays, data entry and column and cell updating, sorting, Stat & Graph menu features, importing from Excel, changing data types, Minitab Assistant, layout tool, help.
- Data types & data collection
- Graphing techniques: run, Pareto, box plot & histogram
- Layout tool & exporting graphs
- Introduction to descriptive statistics, measures of location – mean mode & median, data sets & interactive exercises
- Measures of spread – range, standard deviation & variance
- Properties of the normal distribution, Z scores and prediction
- Quiz
- Statistical process control for individuals & samples: ImR, XbarR, c, u, p and np charts
- The meaning of control, Nelson’s rules for out-of-control conditions
- Quiz
- Assignment: data set with 10 multiple choice questions
- Introduction to process capability analysis (PCA)
- Capability indices Cp, Cpk, Pp, Ppk, capability for individuals, capability for samples
- Control vs. capability
- PCA for non-normal data
- Quiz
- Review & close
Total contact hours = 15 hours over 2 days.
The course will run with a minimum of 8 and a maximum of 15 participants. Please contact us to enquire about suitable course dates for your team.
We will gladly customise our courses to suit our clients. We can add modules, exams and more case studies relevant to your industry all with the aim of giving you even better value and learning from our courses. This course can also be facilitated via online workshops. Call us on +353 91 870708, or send an email for details.
How Will You Be Supported?
During this onsite course, you will
- be able to listen to and interact with the course tutor and other participants;
- be able to ask questions and complete in-course quizzes to self-assess your understanding of the topic;
- be able to download soft copy presentation files, with data sets and case studies, for your own future use.
This course is designed for those who need an introduction to data analysis in Minitab. The course is paced to meet the needs of beginner to intermediate data analysis practitioners. Typical participants include supervisors, line leads, project managers, financial accountants, supply chain analysts, process engineers and laboratory quality analysts.
Meet Your Tutors
Bernie Rushe
Welcome to our course page and I look forward to supporting you in learning new things, or how to do old things better. Over many years as a trainer and workshop facilitator, it has been a pleasure and privilege to enable teams in a variety of organizations to serve their customers better, and grow their businesses. My lean six sigma consulting engagements with clients and practical workshops have yielded benefits in the order of several €millions per year to client companies.
Prior to becoming a course facilitator, I was involved in the management of supply chain and business process improvement activities. After training as a lean six sigma black belt at Dell Computer Corporation, I left in 2001 to establish Lean Ireland. I am a science graduate, a certified ASQ lean six sigma black belt and hold a first class honours masters’ degree in supply chain management.
Please feel free to free to contact me about consulting and courses. Bernie@LeanIreland.ie
Richard Doyle
Working with Lean Ireland gives me the opportunity to share my engineering skills and knowledge with a wide variety of people. I enjoy explaining technical issues to non technical people. It will be a pleasure to enable you to learn new skills.
I have 20+ years engineering and operations management experience, with organisations such as Seagate and General Electric, in Europe and Asia. As a consultant, I add value in the areas of strategic planning, R&D roadmap development, transfer of work, site level capital management and capital strategy skills, equipment installation, commissioning and production release, and productivity improvement. I am an experienced and motivational project leader, mentor and trainer.
I am a Chemical Engineering graduate and a GE certified Six Sigma Black Belt and Lean Master, and I am a GE certified Six Sigma trainer.
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Tailor This Course For Your Company
All of our courses are customised to suit our clients’ environments and participant learning needs. We will be delighted to discuss modification of course content and inclusion of relevant case studies with you.
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