Six problems teams bring us
The work has different names in different plants. These are the six shapes it takes, and what is in the box for each.
- 32
- analyses
- 28 deterministic
- 14
- templates
- 8 draw a diagram
- 56
- tools
- across the loop
- 5
- tollgates
- one per phase
Problems we solve
Start from the problem you have.
Value & ROI
“We cannot show what the improvement work returned.”
Estimated, actual and validated savings, and a business case somebody else signed off.
- ROI calculator
- Cost of poor quality with a benchmark gauge
- Business case builder
Continuous Improvement
“Ideas come in and nothing happens to them.”
Ideas scored, chartered, gated and closed, with a record of each decision.
- Idea hopper with impact and effort scoring
- Kaizen tracker
- Five DMAIC tollgates
Quality
“Defects reach the customer and we find out late.”
Control charts that say whether the process changed, and a control plan that holds the fix.
- Control charts: I-MR, X-bar R, EWMA, CUSUM, attribute
- Process capability, including non-normal
- Sigma metrics and rolled throughput yield
Process Optimization
“The process is slow and nobody agrees on why.”
Find the cause with statistics rather than opinion, test the fix, then measure it.
- Fishbone and 5 Whys
- Hypothesis tests, ANOVA and regression
- Design of experiments
Lean
“There is waste everywhere and no system for removing it.”
Take the waste out, then write down the standard so it stays out.
- TIMWOODS waste walk
- 5S audit
- Kaizen tracker
Operational Excellence
“Improvement happens in pockets and never becomes how we work.”
One record of the work, from the project on the floor to the number in the board pack.
- DMAIC project workspace
- OE manager board with risk scoring
- Executive portfolio and weekly written digest
Product screen, demo data
The journey
From a first cohort to a governed portfolio.
01 Learn
Enroll a cohort on the courses they need
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02 Practice
Practice exams graded on the server, not self-marked
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03 Apply
Run the project through five tollgates
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04 Track
Analyze the data and watch the board
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05 Optimize
Savings validated by someone other than the owner
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06 Scale
The same templates and gates on every project
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For operations teams
Every project visible. Every decision recorded.
Run improvement projects through five tollgates, with savings validated by someone other than the person who ran the project, and a board your leadership can read.
- Every project by phase, with the gates waiting and the ones at risk
- Ideas scored on impact and effort, then chartered
- Estimated, actual and validated savings, kept apart
- A record of who approved what
For universities
Teach it with the tools professionals use.
Set up a course with one form and hand out a join code. Every student runs a real DMAIC project (Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, Control) through five gates, and each submitted gate arrives with an AI pre-read. The professor decides.
- Courses with a join code and a deadline for each gate
- An AI pre-read on every submission, and the professor’s decision
- A gradebook of every student’s five gates
- A course certificate that names who supervised it
For practitioners
Learn it, prove it, use it.
Four belts, White to Black, at your own pace. HD slides with voiceover, quizzes, a tutor that has read the course, and an exam with a 70% pass mark. Then the same agents teams use.
- Lessons with a transcript and captions
- SigmaTutor, answering from the course
- Practice exams before the one that counts
- A certificate anyone can check by its ID
The short video · 0:36
Thirteen agents, one job each.
Whichever problem you start from, the work is done by the same thirteen agents. DataForge finds where the yield goes, DocuForge writes the control plan, ProjectSensei shows what is blocking a gate, and ten more teach, test, explain and report.
Methodologies
Six Sigma is one way in. Not the only one.
- LeanTake the waste out of the flow, then hold the new standard.
- DMAICDefine, measure, analyze, improve, control, with a gate between each.
- A3One page that carries the problem, the cause, the plan and the result.
- KaizenSmall improvements, run quickly, with the before and after measured.
- Root cause analysisGet past the symptom to the thing that is actually causing it.
- Continuous improvementA steady flow of ideas becoming projects becoming standards.
More in solutions
- Value & ROIWe cannot show what the improvement work returned.
- Continuous ImprovementIdeas come in and nothing happens to them.
- QualityDefects reach the customer and we find out late.
- Process OptimizationThe process is slow and nobody agrees on why.
- LeanThere is waste everywhere and no system for removing it.
- Operational ExcellenceImprovement happens in pockets and never becomes how we work.
Thirty minutes
Bring us the problem you have.
Tell us which of the six it looks like. We will show you the tools and the agents for it, on a spreadsheet of yours.