The latest update to our software for managing improvement projects adds a powerful new tool for Value Stream Mapping (VSM), a primary technique used in Lean Six Sigma.

Quality Companion has been embraced by organizations as diverse as Xerox, the U.S. Postal Service and BHP Billiton. If you're not using Companion already, try it now -- get the free 30-day trial version! 

Quality Companion's VSM tool makes it easy to track important variables such as inventory, takt time, and cycle time to improve manufacturing, supply chain, service-related, healthcare, product development and other processes.

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How can you determine if the number of defects is equal across shifts, or if soap preference is related to gender, or if restaurant patrons prefer one brand of cola over another?

The answer is to use a Chi-square test, which helps you make objective assessments about the groups within your data, their makeup, and interdependencies.

But with three different Chi-Square tests available, how do you know which one to choose? 

Learn about the different types of Chi-Square analyses -- and how easy it is to use them in Minitab -- in the latest installment of our how-to series, Accessing the Power of Minitab.

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Minitab highlights Quality Companion 3.2 and its powerful tool for Value Stream Mapping (VSM) in a new Webcast and an upcoming live Webinar. 

The five-minute Webcast (view here) provides an overview of how the VSM tool helps define the steps required to produce a product or service, find improvement opportunities and pinpoint sources of waste.

The live Webinar will cover in more depth how the VSM tool makes it easy to track important variables such as inventory, takt time, and cycle time to help improve manufacturing, supply chain, service-related, healthcare, software development, or product development processes. This event also will feature time for Q&A from participants.

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Quality Companion
How can I add a Value Stream Map to my Quality Companion project?
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Quality Companion
How can I add additional data fields to the default fields in the value stream map's Shape Data task pane?
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Minitab
When I try to perform a chi-square test, why do I get the message, "WARNING: 1 cells with expected counts less than 1. Chi-Square approximation probably invalid. 1 cells with expected counts less than 5"?
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