What's New in Minitab 16: Free Webinars

Minitab will present several live webinars in upcoming weeks to help you learn about the new tools and functionality in Minitab 16 Statistical Software.

These free events will be held at different times to make it easier for more people to participate regardless of what time zone they are in. A Spanish-language webinar also is scheduled.  Registration for all webinars is limited and available on a first-come, first-serve basis.

The webinar will cover a variety of topics, including the Assistant that guides you through your analysis, new regression tools, split-plot designs and more.  

Webinars will be presented at the following times:

• July 22, 2:00 PM EDT (GMT -4:00)
• July 29, 9:00 AM EDT (GMT -4:00)
• August 11, 12:00 PM EDT (GMT -4:00)Spanish

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The No.1 best selling guide for Lean and Six Sigma professionals worldwide has been completely revised. Minitab customers can get a 10% discount on the new version through August 13, 2010.

The third edition of Quentin Brooks "Lean Six Sigma and Minitab" pocket guide is fully updated for Minitab 16, with revised screen shots and menu instructions. The new edition also contains extensive new material covering Lean tools, Design of Experiments, soft skills, statistical tests and more. 

It also includes a new chapter on using Quality Companion software to organize and execute quality improvement projects. "Successful projects require not only problem solving skills, but effective project management, and so the additional chapter introducing Quality Companion is an essential part of this edition," says Brook. 

The chapter details how to manage projects with Quality Companion, and covers key tools including the Roadmap, forms and coaches. It also covers Companion's customization and data sharing capabilities. 

To get your 10% discount off a regular order (excluding postage), order before August 13 from www.opexresources.com/index.php/six-sigma-minitab and enter the code "MTB0710" in the promo code box.

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Minitab Statistical Software has always been easy to useand Minitab 16's new built-in tutorials are the perfect way to acquire skills quickly and achieve better results when using this powerful tool. 

To help you learn how to use Minitab's power to analyze your data, we completely reinvented our built-in tutorials for Minitab 16, located under Help > Tutorials. Our latest release includes 45 new tutorials that provide easy-to-follow, step-by-step instructions on how to use many popular features.

Each tutorial is divided into three tabbed sections:  Uses, Data, and How To. When you open the tutorial window and choose a topic, such as our new General Regression feature, the Uses tab describes how the technique can be applied in real-world scenarios. 

Switching to the Data tab gives you a quick summary of the data requirements and shows you what your worksheet should look like.  Finally, the How To tab leads you through an example step-by-step, using one of Minitab's more than 500 built-in data sets. 

These 45 tutorials can help you understand why and how to use some of Minitab's most powerful capabilities, and how to get the maximum benefit from analyzing your data.  And if you want to learn more, you can find more than 30 additional tutorials from our "Accessing the Power of Minitab" series at Minitab.com! 

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