Industrial Problem Solving - Advanced Techniques

This course can be customized for your team

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This is an advanced problem-solving course for technical teams looking to develop their analytical skills.  Students will learn insightful techniques for solving complex technical problems.   

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This course was developed by an ASQ certified Six Sigma Master Black Belt and course developer at BC Institute of Technology. 

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Students will also learn to use open-source software (R and RStudio) for plotting data and for statistical analysis. 

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Your team will learn these techniques while using their own data.  Nothing enhances learning like relevant examples. 

 

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COURSE TOPICS

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​Industrial Problem Solving - Advanced Techniques for Manufacturers and Product Developers

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• Cost of Quality

• Root Cause Analysis

• Barrier Analysis

• Confirmation Bias

• Intro to R and RStudio (software for statistical analysis)

• Looking at your Data - generating insightful charts

• Basic Statistics Review

• Probability Distributions and their applications in manufacturing

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  • Binomial​

• Sample Size 

• Hypothesis Testing

• Simple Linear Regression

• ​Residual Analysis​

• Statistical Thinking

• Finding the Dominant Source

• Analysis of the Measurement System

• Reducing Variation​

• Multiple Sources of Variation - How to Analyse​?

• Extreme Value Testing

• Tukey's End Count

• Covariate Generation

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