Lean Six Sigma and Minitab: The Complete Toolbox Guide for Business Improvement

Forced to buy for graduate level class. Super easy read, clear notes, wish all books were written like this.PROS-Great intro book.-Written clearly with tutorialsCONS-Very, very simple. I'd say this is suited for undergrads or people with absolutely no background in stats at all. I have a BS in Economics so this was quite a bore to read and failed to delve into advanced methodologies and theory.-Minitab can be hit and miss. Just like STATA, SPSS, SAS, and Excel, it has its pros and cons.Six Sigma overall is just rehashed statistics from the 60s that businesses get excited about with jargon terms like "green belt" and "champion." A sigma is just a standard deviation which anyone with a math background will explain better than this book.If you know multivariate linear regression, skip this book. If you don't know what a sigma is, buy this.

I have been doing Lean Six Sigma work in a variety of organizations for over 30 years. I have attended the Univ. of Mich Lean Manufacturing course, am a certified 6 Sigma Master Black Belt, a Certified Performance Technologist, and have a Masters in HROD. Having just recently participated in an Advanced Statistics Course in which I served as a coach for those in my company's Black Belt program, and in which we taught them how to use Minitab 17, I have to say this guide is THE easiest, the highest quality, and the most comprehensive, concise, and clear presentation of Lean/6 Sigma I have ever seen. I bought a copy and downloaded the data sets and OpEx customized Minitab toolbar. What wonderful resources - all part of the price of the book! GRAB this book for yourself. GIVE IT AWAY to all your improvement specialists - whether they use Minitab or not. This book definitely follows Dr. Juan's admonition to separate the "vital few" from the "trivial many." No fluff but a ton of useful stuff. I am a big fan now.

It is a great book to be able to use Minitab and more importantly understand the interpretation of the results. The parts of the book I liked most are related to hypothesis testing. The free downloadable resources means we do not need to input data but can directly open Minitab files and get on to using the book. I have purchased previous 2 editions of the book. This update for Minitab is just as well done. I recommend the book both for faculty/students and industry. In current times many people get free sample material to write biased feedback. I want to add that I received no free samples of any of the editions. I also rarely write reviews unless it a a great product (or horrible one). Thanks for reading my review.

I really enjoy using this book while I work on my second project. Having this book feels like I am going through mini training with my own personal materials!!!This book is very detailed with great examples for each section!

This gives you more background info. it is al most a must for six sigma green/black belt.

Excellent resource for Lean Six Sigma training. Have been using various versions of this book for the past 10 years.

The book is also good as it contains all that I was looking for.

Excellent book for both gaining LSS knowledge and as a reference text. This made it easier for me to understand how to integrate LSs with Minitab.