Post any comments on the exercise on this blog.Ĭomments are appreciated, since I recieve less than Forrest receives. Please give it a try, if you are interested. It was getting too hard to write about all the things that Minitab does during importing, so I though a quick demonstration would be worth 1000 words (or less). Look at each one in excel and then in Minitab to see what Minitab does to the data during importing. The first and second worksheet has column labels explaining the column of data. When you open the excel workbook with the Minitab Open Worksheet menu, you will create three worksheets. The second worksheet has the data starting in row 2, the third is empty. Minitab provides a quick, effective solution for the level of analysis required in most Six Sigma projects. Analysing data is an important part of Six Sigma (but it’s not the whole story), particularly in the Measure and Analyse phases of DMAIC. Minitab knowledge and Statiscal and Quality Tools knowledge. A: Minitab is a software package that helps you to analyse data.

The file has three worksheets, the first worksheet has most of the trick columns. Advanced Office knowledge (Word, Excel, PowerPoint). I have a link for you to download the file and try it yourself.Ĭlick here to download the example excel file. I decided to create an excel file that when opened, it demonstrates all of the quirks for you to see. It has been a frustrating learning curve, for sure. This e-course may be used for all students before they attend class so that they may get more comfortable with Minitab to save in-class time.Īs I am writing this course, I realize all of the quirks about importing data and how column formats change and information is lost. I am now working on an introduction to Minitab. We chose Minitab because we needed a way to do more powerful analytics without taking the time to generate macros as well as generating nice-looking charts that could easily be put into reports. Smarter Solutions is adopting the e-learning model for many of our topics. We switched from Excel to Minitab just for the more powerful analytical tools and the ease of creating charts.

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