Project Selection Criteria:
• Select an issue or opportunity that can be written as a problem statement.
• Must be within your sphere of influence.
• Is not an attempt to solve world hunger.
• Uses data that is accessible to you or can be collected in a reasonable amount
of effort/time.
• You have the ability to measure the current and future state. You have access to baseline data or can collect it.
• Preferably uses more continuous data (rather than all discrete data).
• Fixing this problem will provide value. You should develop a business case to support working this issue (consider your time and others when calculating ROI.)
Examples:
Improve product quality
Reduce expenses
Improve the output of your organization Decrease wait time
The final submission should be 1 file, in slide format, created in PowerPoint.
It should include 2 parts:
1) Executive summary slide – 1 slide Storyboard (specific requirements below).
2) Back-up slides – additional 5-15 slides (specific requirements pgs. 3-4). This is not a repeat/copy of your storyboard. The back-up slides should detail and support the content of your storyboard.
************************************************************************************************************* 1) Executive Summary :: Storyboard (should be presented in 1 PowerPoint slide)
Follow the DMAIC steps
Include the problem statement and baseline
Utilize at least 5 different tools/techniques (present relevant key tools to best tell your story).
Be readable; summarize and condense exhibits where necessary
Use arrows, call out boxes, and balloons to highlight questions and key learnings
Display data/charts supporting your findings and conclusions
Show results or expected results
2) Back-up slides - following the Storyboard include 5-15 slides containing the answers to the following questions.
DEFINE
• What is your goal? How will you know if you’ve been successful?
• Have clear operational definitions been established for your inputs and outputs?
• What is the process you’re trying to improve? What are the current steps of the process?
MEASURE
• Include your Data Measurement Plan or Data Stratification Tree (examples on pgs. 5-6).
• What type of data did you collect (cost, cycle time, changeover time, yield, machine utilization, scrap, rework, defects, inventory)?
• Was that data continuous or discrete?
• Did you collect your own data or did you use existing data?
• How much data did you collect and why? What is your ideal sample size using the sample
size formula? What is the risk if you collected fewer samples?
• How was your data collected? Describe the methods you used to collect it.
• Where could you have measurement error? How much measurement error do you have? What could you do to minimize your measurement error?
2) Back-up slides continued:
ANALYZE
• What tools did you use to analyze the data? (Utilize at least 5 different tools/techniques
and show evidence and detail of the tool/technique).
• What is the data telling you? What did you discover?
• What is the SQL for the old and new process?
IMPROVE
• What solutions did you propose and/or implement? Did you successfully improve your process? What did you learn about your process
CONTROL
• How will you use this information to “hold the gains” of your improvement or make the next round of improvements in your process?
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