Statistical Six sigma

ools &
echniques

A V Manivannan ( AVM )
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Founder & Managing partner
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Scatter
plots
Objective of this initiative

❑ Customers’ demands are sky-rocketing

❑ Quality standards are re-defined in every walk of our business
❑ Even a Six sigma initiative to meet out the raising demands, may not help us, unless and until the tools & techniques are mastered !
❑ The quick tour, through this document may provide you a better insight on the Statistical tools & techniques.

Practice them appropriately and become more & more competent !

Best wishes !!

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 Competent employees available
in the organizations

Design of 5 % of the
Experiments (DoE), employees can do !
Hypothesis tests,
Regression analysis &
Confidence Interval
analysis

Advanced Statistical Process Control 15 % of the

( A - SPC ) & Measurement Systems employees can do !
Analysis ( MSA ) techniques

30 % of the
QC tools employees can do !

Scatter Source of inspiration : IIT, Kharagpur

plots survey

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Contributor(s)
John Herschel & Karl Pearson
Typical appearance

To identify the type of relationship (if any) between two quantitative variables

Purpose
Applied as ..

Re-active Clue generation 

Pro-active Validation 

For both  Optimization 

(Benefits) Retainment
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By the way of construction : By the way of conclusions :

Types
1. Dots & best fit line 1. Positive correlation
2. Quadrant type ( Japanese prefer this ) & 2. Negative Correlation &
3. Coefficient of correlation ( Karl-person’s method ) 3. No correlation
DMAIC linkage

Mostly applied during….

D M A I C
Define Measure Analyse Improve Control

Salient six features

1. 2 variables shall be analysed to know the relationship to each other, but need not be a casual relationship
( Even when there is a correlation is identified )
2. Independent variable ( what we can manipulate ) must be in X axis ( Predictor variable )
3. Dependent variable ( what we must measure ) must be in Y axis ( Response variable )
4. May be associated with P value ( acceptance criteria 0.05 minimum ) for better interpretations
5. ‘n’ shall be ideally 40 sets for meaningful conclusions
6. Karl Pearson’s method goes with 0 to 1 ( 1 as strongest correlation )

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Tips to use
Using MiniTab
✓ Better collect the data and construct by hand ( not to use any software at the beginning ) Manual construction Using MS office Excel *
software *

✓ May use Excel or MiniTab, once the skill is gained •

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Easy !
Better to perform manually in
the beginning stages of learning Insert → Chart → Scatter Graph → Scatter plots
✓ Scale selection is most important for right decision making ( X & Y axis )
* Version to version, some changes are possible

Hand-held for many teams, in the past one decade

Our experience

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❖ Used in many QCC projects, during our mentoring
❖ Also reviewed in some DoE projects
❖ Teams sometimes missed on considering the strong & weak relationships

Other name (s)

Correlation charts

• Knowing the tools & techniques is only a knowledge addition

Disclaimer

• This initiative would have added some knowledge, but does not guarantee competence enhancement
• For becoming a competent person, one must work at least 10,000 hours, dedicatedly !
• We wish the same from the learners !

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 The approach to master the tools & techniques !

“AVM’s preparations & delivery are

amazing ! I could sense, that he invests
Design of lot of time for his preparations !
Experiments (DoE), He can outsmart many !”

Direction to learn & implement

Hypothesis tests,
Regression analysis &
Confidence Interval
analysis

Advanced Statistical Process Control

Lena Tamilvanan, Journalist & Speaker
( A - SPC ) & Measurement Systems
Analysis ( MSA ) techniques
C O NTA C T
QC tools I N F O RM A T I O N

[email protected]
Note :

Better to target for ‘Lean’ Six sigma, instead of Six sigma +919962117222

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