What Is Lean Six Sigma?

Lean Six Sigma isn’t a third methodology sitting alongside Lean and Six Sigma. Instead, it’s what you get when you run the two together as one practice. The site already covers each half on its own: Lean on its own terms, what Six Sigma is on its own terms, and how the two differ. This (more…)

Lean Six Sigma Tools: Which Toolkit Do You Actually Need?

Search for “Lean Six Sigma tools” and most lists just merge two separate toolkits under one banner without explaining why. That’s backwards. A practitioner doesn’t need “all the tools.” You need to know which toolkit to reach for right now. This page answers that directly. It shows which tools belong to Lean, which belong to (more…)

Coefficient of Variation (CV): Formula, Calculation & Examples

If you have ever compared two machines, two shifts, or two suppliers and found yourself saying “well, their standard deviation is bigger, but they’re also making a bigger part, so is that really worse?”, you were reaching for the Coefficient of Variation, even if you didn’t know its name yet. The Coefficient of Variation (CV) (more…)