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Creating Your Own Willing Worker Paddles for the Red Bead Experiment: DIY Instructions
The Red Bead Experiment, famously designed by Dr. W. Edwards Deming, remains one of the most powerful demonstrations for anyone interested in quality management and continuous improvement. Whether you’re a facilitator seeking interactive ways to teach Deming’s principles, or a quality professional who wants to bring hands-on learning to your organization, running the Red Bead Experiment requires a few simple materials. At the heart of these is one distinctive tool: the willing worker paddle.
How to Calculate Process Capability: Red Bead Experiment Edition
Calculating process capability is a foundational skill in the world of quality management. For many practitioners, Deming’s Red Bead Experiment is an insightful introduction to the statistical phenomena behind variation, system constraints, and performance measurement. But how do you translate the outcomes of the Red Bead Experiment into meaningful process capability calculations? In this article, we’ll guide you step-by-step through the technical analysis, using concepts familiar to Six Sigma, Lean, and continuous improvement professionals.