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The Future of Supply Chain: Predicting Costs and Perfecting Delivery
Join our webinar to discover how data-driven techniques can transform your logistics and boost supply chain efficiency. Learn to use data visualization to resolve delivery complaints, enhance customer satisfaction, and reduce lead times with value stream mapping for timely deliveries. We'll cover how to analyze processes, eliminate delays, and ensure on-time, damage-free delivery using predictive analytics. Refine your strategies, forecast costs accurately, and stay competitive.
Addressing the Supply Chain Conundrum
Understanding and improving your supply chain allows you save money, increase revenue, and remain as lean as possible while still providing the service your customers expect. In this webinar, we will focus on improving supply chain key performance indicators (KPIs) such as cycle time, inventory, delivery, quality, profitability, and costs, all with Minitab's purpose-built module that will help supply chain professionals with direct prompts, guidance, and support pages in supply chain-friendly terminology.
Assessing Process Capability with Minitab
Process capability calculations typically assume that your data follows a normal distribution. But what should you do when a test for normality on your data fails? Following three different case studies, Cheryl Pammer will provide successful strategies for assessing process capability when the normality test fails and how to automate your analysis.
Automate Data Analysis with Minitab
This webinar will focus on Minitab Connect, allowing users to connect, explore and blend data from internal and external data sources. Additionally, Connect allows users to create a wide range of Visualizations, including Statistical Process Control Charts and Capability Analysis. The focus is to design repeatable workflows to eliminate repetitive processes and automate manual tasks. Additionally, users can deliver the prepped data to Minitab Statistical Software and add the statistical analysis on a dashboard.
Back to Basics Tips and Tricks for Minitab Statistical Software
Up your Minitab game! If you have been waiting for the right opportunity to boost your Minitab knowledge, the wait is over. We invite you to join us for a presentation on Minitab Tips & Tricks to help you take your Minitab skills to the next level. Join us for a webinar where you will learn valuable tips for importing, cleaning and manipulating data, managing worksheets, and working with graphs.
Behind the Expiration Date: Determining Product Shelf Life with Minitab
Watch our Minitab webinar where Cheryl Pammer, Senior Advisory Statistician, will delve into Stability Studies and their crucial role in the pharmaceutical and food industry. From life-saving medications to your favorite snacks, discover how these studies help ensure the safety and quality of the products we rely on every day. You will learn about protecting consumers, gain expert insights, receive problem solving tips, and discover how Minitab uses automation to transform stability studies. Gain essential insights that can enhance your understanding and application of stability studies. Ensure the safety and well-being of consumers while boosting your brand's reputation and reducing costs.
Blended Learning: Increasing Your Investment in Content Retention
In the ever-changing landscape of business, employees require professional development that meets the demands of the jobs they are hired to do. Simply providing educational content using one delivery method may not yield the desired outcomes for an organization. When diagnosing the problem, it may be necessary to understand the learner and their learning styles. A blended learning approach delivers content via various methods to allow learners to fully engage with the delivery method that suits them best. Register for this webinar to get more information about this blended learning approach.
Boost the Bottom-Line by Eliminating Waste with Quality Tools
Organizations are increasingly facing challenges of supply chain disruptions, rising prices of goods, and fluctuating demand. Eliminating waste is more important than ever; however, opportunities to improve may not be obvious at first glance. The use of quality tools is effective in addressing waste as well as ensuring compliance. In this webinar, Rob Lievense, Minitab's Solutions Architect, discusses a large high-speed packaging facility that produces millions of units of consumer goods per month, and the steps it takes to eliminate waste.
Break habits, not your products: How Signify switched materials and processing without sacrificing reliability
Join us for a free webinar with Signify - the former Philips Lighting - who has successfully developed sustainable new ways to manufacture reliable products! The innovative global leader in lighting revolutionized their supply chain for luminaires using 3D printing technology, what led to a radical new business model. In this webinar it will be shown how Minitab tools were applied to demonstrate the reliability of partly recycled materials used for printing. You will leave this webinar with best practices around design and reliability techniques for product development and manufacturing, what is coming next, and why Design for Reliability matters to your business. You can register here to attend live and ask your questions to Signify’s Experts Prof W.D. van Driel and Dr P. Watté. Also register to receive the recording. (60 minutes)
Building Predictive Analytics Models: Python vs. Minitab
When you start a predictive analytics program, you'll make decisions about how to use your resources of time, money, and learning. Because it's free, Python is a popular choice for tasks like cleaning data and building predictive analytics models. This webinar compares building a model in Python vs. the Predictive Analytics module for Minitab Statistical Software. We will demonstrate some timesaving, easy-to-learn features for the Predictive Analytics module that give you options to proceed with your predictive analytics program to quickly gain insights from your data.
Championing Operational Excellence: Rejuvenate Your Continuous Improvement Program
In this webinar, Cheryl Pammer, Senior Advisory Statistician at Minitab, provides strategies for adapting your continuous improvement efforts to changing customer expectations as technology advances. By highlighting recent customer successes, she will provide concrete examples on how you can encourage team members at all levels to contribute ideas, identify inefficiencies and collaboratively develop solutions.
Critical Checks for Pharmaceuticals and Healthcare: Validating Your Data Integrity and Process Performance
This presentation will explain how data integrity and process monitoring are critical to each other for regulatory compliance. If your data is not healthy, the evaluation of your process may be incorrect. You will finish the webinar with knowledge of useful statistical techniques to verify your measurement system and validate your process stability. This webinar is a presentation, not a software demonstration. (50 minutes)
Data-Driven Decision Making: Harnessing Reliability Analysis for Optimal Results
In this webinar, Minitab's Senior Advisory Statistician Cheryl Pammer dives into our new Reliability Module. Join us for an introduction to reliability analysis where you will learn how estimating product reliability differs from other statistical techniques and why these tools are an important part of your data analysis toolkit.
Discover Minitab Workspace: The Ultimate Visual Toolkit to Elevate your Work
Searching for simple solutions to achieve the greatest impact with your work? Minitab Workspace enables you to move work forward with powerful visual tools, process maps, brainstorming diagrams and forms. All in one intuitive interface right at your finger tips. Our tools help form processes and identify opportunities ultimately making problems easier to solve. We are excited to share this new product with you and demonstrate how Minitab Workspace will lead you to discover better business opportunities!
DOE in Practice
This webinar on DOE will focus on the planning, design and analysis of factorial designs. We will focus on tools that are available for factor selection and to manage level settings. We will also discuss new analytical techniques to use with existing data as well as available training options. Jim Oskins, MBB & Minitab Solutions Architect, will demonstrate Minitab Workspace, Predictive Analytics and Design of Experiment options. Specifically, this will let you know what to expect in factorial designs and DOE in practice as well as show the opportunities for other DOE types built into Minitab Statistical Software. Beginners are welcome and proficient users will find tips and tricks to make you more efficient at DOE.
Drive the Best Ideas to Innovate and Achieve Operational Excellence
Join Jim Oskins, Minitab Solutions Architect and former OpEx leader at a Fortune 500 company, as he delves into the common pitfalls of continuous improvement projects and demonstrates how Minitab solutions can help avoid them. Jim will guide you through leveraging Minitab to execute DMAIC and Kaizen projects, track key performance metrics in real-time to showcase ROI, and explore strategies to cultivate a culture of continuous improvement.
Effective Workforce Management & Learning with Minitab Workspace
Have you considered how Minitab Workspace can empower your organization to streamline organization, spark innovation, and foster teamwork? Join Emily Steinkamp, Global Director of Learning and Development, as she explains how to use Workspace to improve your company's learning and development efforts and empower your Human Resources (HR) team to cultivate a culture of innovation and collaboration. Discover how Workspace equips managers to grow talent, inspire creative thinking, and navigate projects with ease. Use cases for this webinar include: creating on-demand tools for talent and performance management and focusing on the core stages of instructional design.
Good Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Practices: Continued Process Verification in Compliance Using Minitab’s Solutions Analytics™
Pharmaceutical manufacturers are tasked with verifying process continuously to comply with regulatory requirements (Good Manufacturing Practices) and adhere to customer specifications. Join our webinar to see a practical example of process improvement to meet performance requirements (60 minutes).
Implementation of Minitab Engage on a Global Scale
Do you want to learn how a leading international manufacturer and supplier of advanced electronic components vastly improved their Continuous Improvement processes? Join us for our webinar on Wednesday, November 16th at 11 AM EST to hear Lori Gioia, Director of Corporate Quality at KYOCERA AVX Components Corporation, speak on the implementation of Minitab Engage at over 30 plants around the world, giving the organization an end-to-end continuous improvement solution.
Improve Customer Experience: Harness the Power of Predictive Analytics and 8D
Customer experience is vital to the success of your organization. This webinar will introduce you to key powerful techniques you can use to make data-driven, structured improvements to customer experience. Topics include machine learning techniques such as TreeNet®, CART®, and AutoML, as well as the 8 Disciplines (8D) structured problem-solving technique for effectively handling customer complaints. Ultimately, you will be equipped with the knowledge and tools necessary to transform customer experience into a strategic asset, catalyzing your organization's growth and long-term success.
Improve Your Supply Chain with One Powerful Tool
Supply chain disruptions have become the new normal. It is more critical than ever to have end-to-end visibility into the processes from the time a customer places an order until the final delivery of the product. Join us for this webinar to see how practitioners are using Value Stream Mapping to provide the insight necessary to remove wasted time in supply chain and manufacturing processes.
Improving Healthcare Service and Patient Outcomes by Leveraging the Power of Data Analysis
Now, more than ever, we understand that healthcare professionals are under pressure to calculate, analyze, and improve key process indicators (KPIs) around critical outcomes such as wait time, patient safety, and re-admission. Watch this webinar to learn about Minitab's purpose-built module that will help healthcare professionals with direct prompts, guidance, and support pages, all in healthcare-friendly terminology.
Increasing sales with the help of predictive analytics
Do you know how you can significantly reduce waste and thus improve your business figures? In this webinar with our expert Roberto Mastrangelo, we show you how to do just that with the help of predictive analytics and statistical process control. Discover new analysis techniques that require no prior knowledge.
Introducing Graph Builder: Visualizations Built to Move You Forward
The right visualizations are powerful, but creating them can take lots of time and energy—until now. Introducing Graph Builder, our new tool to instantly visualize, create, and explore your insights in the latest release of Minitab Statistical Software. Join our webinar to see how Graph Builder can easily help you create and switch between graphs seamlessly, so you can focus on choosing the right visual for your needs.
Introducing Minitab Model Ops
As modeling use cases grow, the need to deploy and operationalize models has emerged. Our latest product release, Minitab Model Ops, helps business analysts and engineers successfully deploy Machine Learning models.
Introducing Minitab MSA Module
Evaluating the capability of the measurement system itself is an important first step of every quality improvement project. Typically, to perform a Gage R&R study for continuous measurements, the same ten parts should be measured twice by each of three operators. In practice, however, it is sometimes not possible to measure the same part multiple times because the measurement itself destroys the part. Through the use of case studies based on recent experiences, we will explore potential ways of setting up and analyzing a Gage R&R study for destructive tests.
Learn from the Experts 1: Save Time Automating Data Import
Did you know that you can use Minitab to detect problems in the processes in real time with just one click? This and many other benefits such as reducing the risk of human errors in importing data, saving time, and streamlining graphics updates from new data points can be obtained by automating the import of your information to Minitab. (60 minutes)
Learn from the Experts 2: Speed Up Your Analysis with Minitab Macros
Do you want there to be a simpler way to do the same job over and over again? Automate your analyzes with the Minitab macros. Reserve an hour of your time and we will help you save much more! With Minitab macros, you can perform statistical analysis with minimal user intervention. We invite you to start today. (60 minutes)
Make Your Process Maps Presentation-Worthy
Making a process map presentation-worthy is less about picking a trendy color and more about empathizing with your audience. In this webinar, Mindy Tomlinson, Product Manager at Minitab, will share key considerations for making your process maps not only aesthetically pleasing, but also very effective as a functional tool. Topics will include creating the structure, decision-making, layout + aesthetics, and use of color.
Managing Your Continuous Improvement Program and Projects with Minitab Engage
Looking to learn how to better manage projects and continuous improvement deployments? Watch our webinar to hear insights from expert engineers at Armstrong Flooring on how their use of Minitab Engage has helped them manage their Lean Six Sigma projects and CI deployment with success.
Meet Minitab Engage: Your End-to-End Improvement Solution From Idea Generation Through Execution
Operational excellence and continuous improvement are critical to organizational success now more than ever. Meet Minitab Engage, your end-to-end operational excellence, innovation and idea management solution. This webinar will introduce you to Minitab Engage and highlight features to help you build improvement and innovation programs. Discover how Minitab Engage is the only solution designed to start, track, manage and share innovation and improvement initiatives from idea generation through execution!
Mining for Success: How Machine Learning and Data Analysis is Making Predictive and Preventive Maintenance a Reality
Today’s modern mining companies have more data at their disposal than ever before. But when it comes to their most critical assets, how should businesses be leveraging their data to predict and prevent problems before they happen? What practices can mining companies implement to ensure process efficiency and product excellence? Join us for our upcoming webinar where Minitab's Senior Analytics Consultant, Ming Dong, will showcase how data analysis can optimise mineral processes and maximise delivery efficiencies.
Minitab Workspace Tips & Tricks to Accelerate Your Work
Are you looking for quick ways to solve problems within your product or process, while making the greatest impact for your organization? We’ve got you covered! Join us for a webinar to uncover the latest tips in Minitab Workspace, the ultimate toolkit that enables you to move your work forward with powerful visual tools, process maps, brainstorming diagrams and forms all in one intuitive interface.
Minitab's Predictive Analytics Week - 2023
Are you interested in learning more about predictive analytics? If so, watch Minitab's Predictive Analytics Week webinar series on-demand. This webinar series is the perfect opportunity for you to take your skills to the next level. Our webinar series will provide you with the resources you need to learn the basics and more advanced concepts of predictive analytics. Whether you are a beginner or an experienced practitioner, our hands-on approach will help you build a strong foundation of knowledge and practical skills.
Minitab's Predictive Analytics Week - 2024
Learn about the benefits of Predictive Analytics with our yearly webinar series presented by Minitab’s Senior Advisory Data Scientist, Mikhail Golovnya. Explore the potential of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning as we delve into modern banking and humanitarian use cases.
Minitab® Need to Know 1: Managing Data in Minitab
Do you find yourself cutting and pasting data into Minitab from Excel or other programs too often? We’d like to introduce you to a few good options you might not have known were available in Minitab. (60 minutes)
Minitab® Need to Know 2: First Steps for Data Analysis in Minitab
See how your data are distributed and look for changes over time with data visualization tools in Minitab®. Get to know many of these tools and how you can use them to take an initial look at your data set. (60 minutes)
Minitab® Need to Know 3: Introduction to Process Capability in Minitab
Process capability is the assessment of how well the process delivers what the customer wants. Learn key process capability concepts with us as we walk you through the process capability routemap. (60 minutes)
Mitigate Future Process Risks with Advanced Modeling: A No-Code Approach
Discover how to establish processes that perform well while minimizing risk in your research and development work by attending our on-demand webinar. We explore the challenges faced by teams in meeting goals within time and resource constraints and discuss how enhanced monitoring can help in early operations. You will also learn how to use multivariate adaptive regression spline (MARS), a powerful no-code solution available through Minitab, to visualize influence patterns of process inputs and fine-tune input settings to mitigate potential risks. The webinar will provide valuable insights into optimizing your processes and making informed decisions to keep operations running smoothly.
Mitigate Risks, Improve Quality and Reduce Costs with Real-Time Statistical Process Control
Statistical process control (SPC) is a method used to monitor and control industrial processes through analytical techniques. It provides insight into process performance and more importantly, helps an organization identify issues before they become problems. Sign up to learn how Minitab’s Real-Time SPC solution provides cloud-based performance monitoring and alerting that enables true process optimization.
Optimize Business Efficiency and Increase Service Satisfaction in Non-Manufacturing Industries with Minitab Statistical Software
Whether you are a business professional in the healthcare services, financial & banking, government, telecommunication, or consumer products sector, this session will provide you with an all-round application of Minitab in various industries. Join Minitab Senior Analytics Consultant Ming Dong as he will go through in-depth case studies in the non-manufacturing sector.
Performing At Your Best: A TEDx Coach’s Roadmap to Developing Your Critical Skills To Tackle Today’s Challenges
How can you best develop your skills so 'high potential, high performer' staff remain and thrive? Join TEDx coach and personal development expert, Cristina Chis, as she reveals how to teach and how to make sure new skills bring value to the business during and post-covid. Cristina will share the benefits of Blended Learning to retain and develop your teams, whether they are working remote, in an online environment or in the office.
Performing At Your Best: A TEDx Coach’s Secrets To Developing Innovative Leaders and Ensuring They Thrive at Your Organization
Two thirds of employees are using the Covid-19 period to re-evaluate their career, with 51% motivated by the desire to learn new skills or challenge themselves. Yet this situation can be a win-win opportunity for organisations: they need leaders who can drive data-driven innovation and reinvent their business models for the 'new normal'. TEDx coach and personal development expert Cristina Chis will reveal how organisations should develop and retain these high-performing staff. You will also learn with Jenn Atlas of Minitab the core skills high-performing leaders need to possess for data-driven success.
Product Optimization with Data Analysis - A Case Study from the Industry
Problem-solving techniques have evolved in the last few years. Using an example from a manufacturer, learn how he improved his chemical product with the help of an optimization process.
Raising Your SPC IQ
David Morihiro, MBB from Edwards Lifesciences, explored the underlying mechanics of the most common statistical process control (SPC) charts in this webinar. David illustrates the underlying assumptions and the original purposes of these charts, common pitfalls in interpretation, and practical considerations that any SPC viewer should use to customize their organization's reactions to signals. By raising your SPC IQ, you will be able to effectively choose the right tool for the right data, set up your SPC charts in the most effective way for your area and company, and make the most productive decisions while reading the charts. The methods demonstrated in this webinar have the potential to save your organization time and money by "right-sizing" your reactions based on what is most important to you and your organization.
Reduce Your Energy Costs with Data Analysis & Problem-Solving Methods
Imagine being able to cut 20 percent of your manufacturing costs by analyzing your data to improve operations. Register for our webinar to learn how the right data-driven decisions can help you optimize energy usage at industrial sites. During the webinar, we’ll explore how optimized processes can increase efficiency, reduce materials used, and lower costs!
See the unknown with Monte Carlo Simulation
Variation creates unknown risk within a process. However, knowing how to identify and manage that risk can be a secret weapon – empowering you to avoid waste and allocate resources more effectively. Minitab Statistical Software empowers you to model data and quantify risk. Monte Carlo simulation in Minitab Workspace can help you predict risk and learn how to manage it.
Simplifying Predictive Analytics in the Classroom: A Minitab Guide
Expand your curriculum by introducing Predictive Analytics in your classroom. Hear Cody Steele, Senior Information Developer at Minitab and Adjunct Lecturer at Penn State University, introduce some helpful Predictive Analytics algorithms available in Minitab and how to use them in your classroom.
Statistical Quality Tools in Practice
This webinar focused on Measurement System Analysis, Control Charting, and Capability Analysis. We focused on the tools that are available for different types of measurements from continuous to attribute, and discuss how those differ if destructive or not. We talked through how to assess if your process is in control once you believe your measurement system is giving you valid measurements. If your process is in control you can quantify process capability, so we showed several options in Minitab for that as well.
Statistical Solutions to Help You with the 5 FDA Medical Devices Stages
From bandages to pacemakers, medical devices have a single, primary purpose: to improve the quality of life. Medical devices companies must be responsible for the safety and effectiveness of their products throughout the entire product development cycle. In the U.S., the FDA recommends five stages for the device development process. These stages ensure the safety and efficacy of medical devices in the whole product development cycle, creating a need for rigorous pre-market trials and post-market surveillance activities to monitor the performance of medical devices.
Take Control of Your Supply Chain Risk with Minitab Solutions
The impact of the past two years on the global supply chain has heightened the need for organizations to focus on managing risk and increasing resilience. By capitalizing on digital technologies and increasing real-time visibility into every part of the value chain, companies can better anticipate areas of potential risk before a problem occurs or identify and eliminate disruptions more quickly. In this webinar, you will learn how Minitab's integrated approach to solutions can help organizations address these issues while continuing to grow and minimize costs.
The Future of Manufacturing: Cloud-Based SPC
Register for our upcoming webinar to explore the transformative potential of cloud-based Statistical Process Control (SPC) in the manufacturing industry. In a world where efficiency and precision are paramount, adopting cloud technology is reshaping how manufacturers monitor and optimize their processes.
The future of root cause analysis: from reactive to proactive thanks to data integration and predictive analytics
This webinar explains how to perform root cause analysis with predictive analytics to identify variables that generate out-of-spec products. The application example will show how using data integration allows these variables to be monitored in real-time, to identify the likely causes of product waste before they happen.
The Importance of Design of Experiments (DOE) in Continuous Improvement
DOE is considered by many experts as the most relevant and useful technique in the world of continuous improvement when it comes to process modeling and optimization. In this webinar you will see a real application of DOE so you can understand the power of this technique and take the first steps in mastering this process.
Time-to-Market and Design for Reliability at the Speed of Light in Signify: Case Study
Get ready for a light bulb moment! In a fast-changing industry where time-to-market and product reliability give a competitive edge, discover how the world’s leading lighting company Signify, rapidly validates new innovations. In this one hour webinar, Prof W.D. van Driel and Dr P. Watté will shed a light on design for reliability (DfR) using Minitab Statistical Software at Signify, the former Philips Lighting. Learn from real-life examples their methods to lower your development costs, improve your designs’ performance and compliance, and accelerate the testing of product design reliability. If you develop products intended to meet high specifications for years to come, you will discover how to reduce the risks and consequences of product failure and costly claims - for you and your customers.
Turning Words into Numbers and Numbers into Data-Driven Insights with Minitab, Python and Text Mining
In this follow-up to our webinar introducing Minitab's new Python integration module, senior advisory data scientist Mikhail Golovnya will show you how to perform text analytics with Minitab and Python. Text mining is useful when analyzing customer comments, call center transcriptions, doctor reports or any other free-form text that contains information you want to extract. Mikhail will show the basic steps from collecting summary statistics like Inverse Document Frequency (IDF) and cleaning text to more advanced concepts such as bag of words and sentiment values. We will also provide fully functional Python scripts and sample data sets so you can try it on your own. (60 minutes)
Value Stream Maps in Health Care
Quality Improvement is a major priority in healthcare today. Improvement opportunities center around improving health of the population, enhanced patient and provider experience and outcomes, and reduce cost of care per capita. Attend this webinar to learn about how Value Stream Maps, a simple tool that leverages the Lean business principles can help health care providers eliminate waste or redundant activities, improving the quality of work for both patients and providers.
Visualizations that Make an Impact: See What’s New with Minitab
You rely on Minitab Statistical Software for trusted analyses and valuable insights to help you confidently make better decisions, but how do you bring those insights to life and really drive impact at your organization? The right visuals and accessibility can make all the difference. Discover how the latest release of Minitab Statistical Software can help you enhance the impact of your work in your business by attending our webinar. Join our Global Market Development Manager, Jenn Atlas, as she showcases the new visualizations available in Minitab that can strengthen your decisions and influence, make your insights easy-to-share, and then even easier to understand. She'll also review the latest software features, statistical updates, and how faster collaboration and new levels of productivity can be achieved with Minitab now on the cloud. (60 minutes)