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Dollars & Sense

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

What's 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's 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

Designed to complement
(not replace)
your favorite statistical software
All Word & Excel -
Your people (should) already know how to use
Fill-in-the-blanks easy with excellent online help for both how to use Excel and Six Sigma teachings
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.

No time delays...
No cost overruns...
Just thorough, timely deliverables that will impress even your most demanding executives

Six Sigma Training

Every Systems2win
Six Sigma template includes online help, education, and training... with many training videos.

Six Sigma Software

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...

No proprietary software to buy
Easily published to the web - for everyone to see
Your people learn skills they can use for many other purposes

Pure & simple easy-to-use Lean Six Sigma Project Management software.

Six Sigma Basics
For the "how to" e-learning Tutorial, click below:
Click here--> Six Sigma Methodology

DMAIC Six Sigma Tools

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

Get ALL quality templates on this page
in the DMAIC Six Sigma tools bundle

Six Sigma templates
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 training video
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	Fishbone Diagram more info
Brainstorming & Affinity Group Tool Six sigma template to brainstorm ideas, then quickly organize them into affinity groups to stimulate even more ideas
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.)
SIPOC Diagram Use the SIPOC template to provide an "at a glance" overview of a process, and identify Suppliers, Inputs, Processes, Outputs, and Customers
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
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
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
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	House of Quality more info
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
Critical to Quality CTQ Tree Diagram To ensure that you collect data that is meaningful to your project for continuous quality improvement
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. See DMAIC Six Sigma tools video
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.)
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. See Six Sigma video
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? See Scorecard video
Production Schedule to Actual Scorecard Quality control template to evaluate Production Scheduling and Sales & Operations Planning vs. actual results The Quality Checklist and Schedule to Actual all come on the same "Scorecard" template
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
Team Roles Simple six sigma tool to define the performance criteria, time commitment, and ideal profile for each team role
Team Empowerment Boundaries Top management's clear communication of what your team is an is not empowered to do
Project Charter template To summarize the Six Sigma project scope and results in a form that is easily copied into PowerPoint
And these Lean Six Sigma tools can also be bundled with Project Management templates

Six Sigma Online Training & Six Sigma Videos

DMAIC Six Sigma training
- DMAIC Six Sigma tools (13 min intro to lean six sigma tools)
- Introduction to Lean Kaizen DMAIC Six Sigma video (13 min training for foundational concepts)
- FMEA
- Brainstorming & Root Cause Analysis
- House of Quality QFD
- Pareto video (4 mins)
- Scorecard to organize your statistical data (3 min video)
- SIPOC video (2 min Six Sigma training video)
Additional training relevant to this template
The Sample and Help worksheets of every template also contain training relevant to THAT template
- Introduction to Systems2win templates (5 min video)
- How to find Help & Training for any Systems2win template
- What's new in v5&6
- Training & Demos home page

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.

New features
in versions 5 & 6

New Systems2win menu in Word and Excel.
Benefits:
* Several easy ways to find & open templates.
* New stencil of Link Icons - can be used anywhere in any Systems2win Excel template.
* New stencil of Link Icons - can be used anywhere in any Systems2win Word template (older templates use Link Icons only in Excel).
* New flag icons - to easily link to multi-language documents.
* Smaller file sizes - because stencils of shapes are no longer duplicated in each workbook.

Code separated from data. Most code has been separated into add-ins (rather than being embedded in each workbook). Benefits:
* Easier upgrades. From now on, you will usually be able to take advantage of upgrades without transferring data from your old working documents to your new templates.
* Update anytime. You can update your add-in code at any time, [and upgrade your (personalized) templates when you upgrade].
* Easier for your IT Dept to ensure compliance with your License Agreement, by preventing accidental distribution of templates to unlicensed users.

Easily sync templates in each local PC with master templates in your S2winPortal. Benefits:
* Easily distribute personalized templates to all of your users.
* You can even use our Sync system to distribute your own (non-Systems2win) personalized templates! (Doesn't your firm have some of your own Word and Excel templates that you would like to distribute to your users?)
* Easier for laptop users to always have access to your company's latest templates - even when disconnected from your network.

Even better compatibility with more versions of Windows and Office.
* More templates now support Office 2007.
* Better support for International languages, and international versions of Windows and Office.

More and easier help.
* More consistent user interface.
* Separate worksheets for Sample and Help.
* Even easier for users to find help.

Learn more in What's New

New Systems2win menu is available
whenever you open Excel or Word