Data analysis training - key to effective quality programs

Any business owner naturally wants to find any way possible to improve his/her company.Whether you are a corporate executive or a manufacturer, it is the same: you're both looking for ways to become more efficient, save money, increase productivity and profit.One way to do this is to train yourself and your employees in data analysis.This is the key to having effective quality programs.If you continue reading this article you will learn a bit more about data analysis training and how to use it to your benefit to improve quality programs.

Data analysis is the act of transforming information with the aim of retrieving useful knowledge about a topic and forming conclusions based on that knowledge.Depending on the type of data and the question this could include application of statistical methods, curve fitting, selecting or discarding certain subsets based on certain criteria or other techniques.Data analysis is intended not to discover unseen patterns hidden in the data, but to verify or disprove an existing model.

You and your employees should be aware of the various ways of data analysis.You can train your employees in a particular topic.If you do not want to bear the responsibility of training them yourselves, you can hire someone to come train your employees or you can send them to special courses related to data analysis.You may also want to consider training them in data modeling, statistics and probability.Such classes can enable you and your employees to accomplish your goals.

Data analysis can also help you improve quality programs or your six sigma.What is six sigma?Six sigma is a method of practices created to eliminate defects in a company.To many companies, six sigma symbolizes a constant striving for perfection in all aspects of their businesses.It is a disciplined approach towards driving six standard deviations between the mean and nearest specification limit in any process-from manufacturing or products to service.Six sigma is a method of describing how a process in a company is performing.If you have employees that are well trained in data analysis, they will be able to better follow six sigma.And in following the six sigma you will be better be able to improve your company.

Here are the six points of six sigma:

1. Critical to quality: these are the characteristics that are the most important to a customer-a product's durability, appearance, usefulness, etc.
2. Beware of defects: this is failing to deliver what the customer wants.It is your job to discover what exactly the customer wants and how to get it to them.
3. Process capability: this is what your process can deliver to the customer, in a timely, affordable manner.
4. Variation: what the customer sees and feels may change very rapidly.You must be ready for sudden and possible radical changes in the market and in your company.
5. Stable operations: you want your company to produce consistent, predictable processes to improve upon what the customer wants
6. Design for six sigma: scheming to meet customer needs and process capability

So imagine that you and your employees are all well trained in data analysis.You will then be able to better understand how to improve the quality of your product.Or eliminate defects.Or be ready for variation in the market when it arises.And if you are aware of how to improve these things, you will put out a better product and make more profit.

So the moral of this story is that you should train your employees in data analysis, which will allow you follow the six sigma and thereby improve your company.