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            <lastmod>2025-08-05T17:13:25.000000Z</lastmod>
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              <image:caption>Pareto Diagram (or Pareto Chart) is used to visualize the top contributors or otherwise called the 80/20 rule. In the chart, the top four machines make up 85% of the downtime.</image:caption>
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            <lastmod>2024-09-30T12:34:56.000000Z</lastmod>
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              <image:caption>Visual aid showing the relationship of the capability indexes: Pp, Ppk, Cp, and Cpk</image:caption>
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              <image:caption>Visual aid showing the relationship of the capability indexes: Pp, Ppk, Cp, and Cpk</image:caption>
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              <image:caption>RTY Calculator download. Calculate the Rolled Throughput Yield of a series of processes using this calculator.</image:caption>
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              <image:caption>Economic Order Quantity calculator download in Excel. Use this EOQ calculator to model various scenarios to come up with the EOQ. Comes with an interactive graph.</image:caption>
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              <image:caption>Pugh Matrix download in Excel. Use this template to create a Pugh Matrix.</image:caption>
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              <image:caption>SIPOC Template download in Excel. Use this SIPOC tool to begin your Six Sigma project.</image:caption>
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              <image:caption>The GOAL of Six Sigma is to make a fundamental shift in reducing the process variation and shifting the mean towards a desired performance level.</image:caption>
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              <image:caption>Comparison of Sigma, DPMO, and Yield values. Six Sigma = 3.4 DPMO</image:caption>
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              <image:caption>The goal of Lean Six Sigma is to reduce waste, tighten process variation, and shift the performance mean to a more desirable level.</image:caption>
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