DMAIC Six Sigma Tools

Excel templates for Lean Six Sigma
to Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, and Control quality

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OEE Overall Equipment Effectiveness

New Excel template for TPM Total Productive Maintenance - to maximize the effectiveness of your bottleneck resources.

And unlike any other OEE software - this is bundled with an entire suite of continuous improvement tools - so you can actually solve the problems that OEE analysis uncovers.

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OEE Excel template
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SIPOC Diagram

Use the SIPOC template to identify and eliminate wastes of any kind: hazardous wastes and emissions, scrap, energy, packaging...

This template is also often used as the starting point for a Value Stream Mapping Team Charter - because it clearly defines the boundaries of the value stream segment being mapped.

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SIPOC Diagram Excel template
The SIPOC flowchart has columns for Suppliers, Inputs, Processes,
Outputs, and Customers

FMEA
Failure Modes and Effects Analysis

Also known as EMEA Error Modes and Effects Analysis

Six Sigma tool to anticipate problems, and design  processes and products to reduce costly and embarrassing risks

FMEA EMEA Excel template
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Root Cause Analysis

also known as Cause and Effect Diagram, or
Ishikawa Root Cause Analysis Fishbone Diagram

To identify the root causes of a problem, and brainstorm creative ideas for solving them

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Ishikawa Root Cause Analysis Fishbone Diagram
Fishbone Diagram
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Brainstorming & Affinity Group Tool

Six sigma template to brainstorm ideas, then quickly organize them into affinity groups to stimulate even more ideas

Brainstorming and Affinity Grouping Excel template

Thought Map

also known as Thought Map Relations Diagram

To identify root causes of a complex, nonlinear problem. (Use a Cause and Effect Fishbone Diagram to identify root causes of less complex, linear problems.)

Thought Map Relations Diagram

Customer Segmentation Worksheet

Quality improvement template to identify and focus attention upon the sub-segments of customers that generate the most value from each product or service

DMAIC Customer Segmentation Worksheet

Voice of the Customer
Data Collection Worksheet

To plan and manage the collection of Six Sigma customer data - from existing company data, listening posts, surveys, interviews, point-of-use observation, and more

Free training - Voice of the Customer template

Voice of the Customer Data Collection Worksheet

Voice of the Customer Requirements Translation
and Kano Analysis

Quality control template to translate potentially vague customer comments into measurable functional requirements - thereby strengthening your team's ability to design and deliver products and services that truly delight your customers

Voice of the Customer Requirements and Kano Analysis

House of Quality - Quality Functional Deployment Matrix

One of the most sophisticated quality improvement tools - to provide a guiding structure for a cross-functional product development team to rapidly design and deploy new products and services

 

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QFD House of Quality Excel template
House of Quality
Excel template

Cause and Effect Matrix

A simpler quality improvement tool than the QFD - with a similar objective: To identify the few process input variables that provide the greatest opportunity to improve the key process outputs

Six Sigma Cause and Effect Matrix

Critical to Quality CTQ Tree Diagram

To ensure that you collect data that is meaningful to your project for continuous quality improvement

Critical To Quality CTQ Tree Diagram

DMAIC Measurement Selection Matrix

One of the most important quality tools - to avoid the single most common mistake in a Six Sigma project - choosing the wrong measures.

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DMAIC Measurement Assessment Matrix

Measurement Assessment Tree Diagram

To identify data that is (and is not) worth collecting - stratified in ways that help to discern patterns in the data (about root causes, usage patterns, etc.)

Measurement Assessment Tree Diagram

Operational Definitions

Another important quality tool - to avoid the single most costly mistake in a Six Sigma project - inconsistent collection and interpretation of survey results.

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Operational Definitions

Quality Data Checklist & Scorecard

Your statistical software assumes that you have a clean, organized way to store and archive the data that your statistical software will then analyze.

That's a big assumption, isn't it?

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Quality Data Checklist and Scorecard

Pareto Chart

Pareto Chart template to identify identify the 20% of problems causing 80% of your headaches - so you know where to focus your continuous improvement efforts

Can chart ANY Excel data

Pareto chart Excel template

Team Roles

Simple six sigma tool to define the performance criteria, time commitment, and ideal profile for each team role

Six Sigma Team Roles

Team Empowerment Boundaries

Top management's clear communication of what your team is an is not empowered to do

DMAIC Customer Segmentation Worksheet

Project Charter template

To summarize the Six Sigma project scope and results in a form that is easily copied into PowerPoint

Six Sigma Project Charter
And these Lean Six Sigma tools are often purchased with Project Management templates
that are also written using Word and Excel - and will be very familiar to anyone that is already familiar with these DMAIC templates.

 

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Additional training relevant to these templates

The Sample and Help worksheets of every template always contain training relevant to THAT template

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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These templates are designed to supplement
(not replace) statistical software

Systems2win templates for DMAIC process improvement are designed to supplement - (not replace) - your favorite statistical software - filling in the holes that statistical software typically does so poorly.


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Common mistakes

What is it worth to avoid the single most common mistake in a Six Sigma project? (Choosing the wrong measures)

What is it worth to avoid the single most costly mistake in a Six Sigma project? (Finding out that your costly survey has invalid results because Jack asked the questions and interpreted the answers differently than Jill?)

What is it worth to have an entire quiver of quality tools to draw from - rather than staying late to invent yet another template for next week's upcoming project?


Features & Benefits

  1. Designed to complement  
    (not replace)
    your favorite statistical software
  2. All Word & Excel -
    Your people (should) already know how to use
  3. Fill-in-the-blanks easy with excellent online help for both how to use Excel and Six Sigma teachings
  4. Professional - legible, electronically stored, impressive deliverables

When you're leading a Lean Six Sigma project, who has time to "create a template for that"?

Here is a quiver full of field-proven lean six sigma tools ready to just "fill in the blanks" and get on with the next phase of your project.

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No cost overruns...
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Here you will find Six Sigma tools, TQM tools, and quality improvement tools that your Black Belts, Green Belts, and "What's a Belts" can put to immediate use - with only moments of training.

Based on Excel and Word, so...

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  • Your people learn skills they can use for many other purposes

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