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   <pubDate>Fri, 30 May 2008 14:31:11 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Statistical Process Control </title>
    <link>http://www.bexcellence.org/Statistical-Process-Control.html</link>
    <description>Statistical Process Control :(SPC) is the use of Control Charts to help control a process. Most novice Belts confuse SPC with Control Charts and vice versa. Control Charts are used in a number of plac</description>
    <pubDate>Fri, 30 May 2008 14:10:39 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Spaghetti </title>
    <link>http://www.bexcellence.org/Spaghetti.html</link>
    <description>Spaghetti Map or Physical Process Map is the simplest Lean Sigma tool. It demonstrates the physical flow of an entity or multiple entity types</description>
    <pubDate>Fri, 30 May 2008 13:15:57 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Regression</title>
    <link>http://www.bexcellence.org/Regression.html</link>
    <description>Regression is one of the statistical tools usedin the Multi-Vari approach and isprobably the most powerful. A Regression analysis determines</description>
    <pubDate>Thu, 29 May 2008 12:13:54 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>SMED</title>
    <link>http://www.bexcellence.org/SMED.html</link>
    <description>SMED: Rapid changeover or rapid setup is also known asSingle Minute Exchange of Dies (SMED) and was devised by ShigeoShingo.</description>
    <pubDate>Thu, 29 May 2008 11:08:17 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>OEE</title>
    <link>http://www.bexcellence.org/OEE.html</link>
    <description>Overall Equipment Effectiveness ( OEE ) is used extensively in the maintenance and equipment reliability world to examine equipment availability. </description>
    <pubDate>Wed, 09 Jan 2008 10:12:08 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Total Productive Maintenance</title>
    <link>http://www.bexcellence.org/Total-Productive-Maintenance.html</link>
    <description>Total Productive Maintenance : Tools and roadmap </description>
    <pubDate>Wed, 09 Jan 2008 09:35:04 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Takt Time</title>
    <link>http://www.bexcellence.org/Takt-Time.html</link>
    <description>Takt Time is defined as &quot;The rate at which the end product or service must be produced</description>
    <pubDate>Sun, 06 Jan 2008 05:37:29 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Lean manufacturing</title>
    <link>http://www.bexcellence.org/Lean-manufacturing.html</link>
    <description>Lean manufacturing is a generic process management philosophy derived mostly from the Toyota Production System (TPS)</description>
    <pubDate>Sun, 06 Jan 2008 04:41:43 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title> process capability</title>
    <link>http://www.bexcellence.org/process-capability.html</link>
    <description> process capability</description>
    <pubDate>Sun, 30 Dec 2007 20:02:38 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Capability</title>
    <link>http://www.bexcellence.org/Capability.html</link>
    <description>Capability : There are many performance metrics available (throughput, Overall Equipment Effectiveness, quality, and so on) of which Capability is just one</description>
    <pubDate>Mon, 24 Dec 2007 18:53:06 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Anova</title>
    <link>http://www.bexcellence.org/Anova.html</link>
    <description>Anova : One-Way Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) is used to compare the means of two or more samples</description>
    <pubDate>Sun, 23 Dec 2007 19:49:56 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>business week</title>
    <link>http://www.bexcellence.org/business-week.html</link>
    <description>As every business week pass , we learn from it , we need to share our expet</description>
    <pubDate>Fri, 14 Dec 2007 19:03:53 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>discovery</title>
    <link>http://www.bexcellence.org/discovery.html</link>
    <description>discovery phase  : There might be many potential projects across the process and the Team is charged with identifying them prior to selecting one and carrying it to conclusion.</description>
    <pubDate>Mon, 10 Dec 2007 21:39:27 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>EFQM Business excellence model</title>
    <link>http://www.bexcellence.org/EFQM.html</link>
    <description>EFQM , business excellence model , 8 concepts to achieve excellence</description>
    <pubDate>Mon, 22 Oct 2007 09:34:14 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award</title>
    <link>http://www.bexcellence.org/Malcolm-Baldrige-National-Quality-Award.html</link>
    <description>Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award It is a criteria designed to help organizations use an integrated approach to organizational performance management </description>
    <pubDate>Mon, 22 Oct 2007 08:39:31 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Business Excellence.Org  ..&gt;&gt; The Way To Success</title>
    <link>http://www.bexcellence.org/index.html</link>
    <description>Business excellence is featured by good profitability, business capability, growth in sales, and market share, on the basis of quality (TomPeters, 1982).</description>
    <pubDate>Sat, 20 Oct 2007 10:46:56 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Verification</title>
    <link>http://www.bexcellence.org/googlehostedservice.html</link>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 27 Sep 2007 22:52:47 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Developing a learning organization</title>
    <link>http://www.bexcellence.org/learning-organization.html</link>
    <description>7 steps to developing a learning organization</description>
    <pubDate>Sun, 23 Sep 2007 00:01:48 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Planning for Knowledge Management</title>
    <link>http://www.bexcellence.org/Planning-for-Knowledge-Management.html</link>
    <description>Planning for Knowledge Management the collective knowledge (including skills, data, and information) of an organization. It includes knowledge that resides internally as</description>
    <pubDate>Sat, 22 Sep 2007 23:42:02 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Data  and Information</title>
    <link>http://www.bexcellence.org/data.html</link>
    <description>Data and Information , re often used interchangeably, they dont mean the same thing.</description>
    <pubDate>Sat, 22 Sep 2007 23:23:57 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>knowledge Management</title>
    <link>http://www.bexcellence.org/knowledge-management.html</link>
    <description>knowledge Management (KM) is the activity of expanding, storing, and retrieving intellectual capital, which may be defined as the collective knowledge (including experience, skills, data, and informat</description>
    <pubDate>Sat, 22 Sep 2007 22:45:40 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Six Sigma Overview</title>
    <link>http://www.bexcellence.org/Six-Sigma-Overview.html</link>
    <description>Six Sigma Overview : Six Sigma has been a popular management philosophy for years.</description>
    <pubDate>Wed, 19 Sep 2007 22:38:56 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Control Tollgate</title>
    <link>http://www.bexcellence.org/Control-Tollgate.html</link>
    <description>There are two major Control Tollgate to the last phase of DMAIC. They are:</description>
    <pubDate>Wed, 19 Sep 2007 22:20:07 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Analysis Tollgates</title>
    <link>http://www.bexcellence.org/Analysis-Tollgates.html</link>
    <description>There are three Analysis tollgates: Data Analysis, Process Analysis, and Root Cause Analysis.</description>
    <pubDate>Wed, 19 Sep 2007 22:12:13 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Measure Tollgates</title>
    <link>http://www.bexcellence.org/Measure-Tollgates.html</link>
    <description> Major Measure Tollgates :  the creation of the data collection plan and the implementation of the data collection plan.</description>
    <pubDate>Wed, 19 Sep 2007 21:36:55 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Define Tollgates</title>
    <link>http://www.bexcellence.org/Define-Tollgates.html</link>
    <description>There are three Define tollgates: Charter; Customers, their needs and requirements; and the High Level Process Map.</description>
    <pubDate>Wed, 19 Sep 2007 20:28:26 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Six Sigma Methodology</title>
    <link>http://www.bexcellence.org/Methodology-of-Six-Sigma.html</link>
    <description>Six Sigma  Methodology  is  trying to accomplish greater effectiveness and efficiency.</description>
    <pubDate>Wed, 19 Sep 2007 19:59:41 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Conatct Us</title>
    <link>http://www.bexcellence.org/contact-us.html</link>
    <description>Conatct Us , Are you interested in exchanging links?Would you like to offer a suggestion? Is there a subject  you want  us to cover?</description>
    <pubDate>Wed, 19 Sep 2007 14:16:01 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>History of Six Sigma</title>
    <link>http://www.bexcellence.org/History-of-Six-Sigma.html</link>
    <description>History of Six Sigma : Started at Motorola but popularized in the 1990s by AlliedSignal and General Electric, Six Sigma was different than previous approaches to quality improvement.</description>
    <pubDate>Tue, 18 Sep 2007 15:40:37 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Six Sigma Breakthrough</title>
    <link>http://www.bexcellence.org/Six-Sigma.html</link>
    <description>You might have heard or read about Six Sigma in the newspaper as organization after organization has begun to adopt and implement this powerful management philosophy</description>
    <pubDate>Tue, 18 Sep 2007 15:23:27 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Balanced scorecard</title>
    <link>http://www.bexcellence.org/balanced-scorecard.html</link>
    <description>The Balanced Scorecard  provides a clear prescription as to what companies should measure in order to 'balance' the financial perspective.</description>
    <pubDate>Tue, 18 Sep 2007 13:31:34 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Theory of Constraints</title>
    <link>http://www.bexcellence.org/Theory-of-Constraints.html</link>
    <description>The theory of constraints (TOC), created by Dr. Eli Goldratt, is based on the</description>
    <pubDate>Wed, 12 Sep 2007 22:56:32 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>lean thinking</title>
    <link>http://www.bexcellence.org/lean-thinking.html</link>
    <description>If you want to be a friend for lean, you have to understand him , know lean thinking. Then what lean want from you and finally what you expect to have from friendship with lean?</description>
    <pubDate>Sun, 09 Sep 2007 20:53:10 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>value stream mapping</title>
    <link>http://www.bexcellence.org/value-stream-mapping.html</link>
    <description> a value stream mapping is the first step required in any lean improvement initiative</description>
    <pubDate>Fri, 07 Sep 2007 12:03:17 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Standard Work</title>
    <link>http://www.bexcellence.org/Standard-Work.html</link>
    <description>Standard work is defined as a set of work procedures that effectively combine people, materials, processes, technology, and machines to maintain quality, efficiency, safety, and predictability.</description>
    <pubDate>Fri, 07 Sep 2007 11:50:36 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Quick Changeover</title>
    <link>http://www.bexcellence.org/Quick-Changeover.html</link>
    <description>a NARROW  view of Quick changeover as only the time required to pull an existing tool or fixture and set the new tool or fixture</description>
    <pubDate>Fri, 07 Sep 2007 11:46:17 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Mistake proofing </title>
    <link>http://www.bexcellence.org/Mistake-proofing.html</link>
    <description>Mistake proofing  is defined as an improvement technology that uses a device or procedure</description>
    <pubDate>Fri, 07 Sep 2007 11:45:10 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Level Mix Model Production</title>
    <link>http://www.bexcellence.org/Level-Mix.html</link>
    <description>Level Mix Model Production is a method of scheduling daily production of various types of products in a sequence that evens out the peaks and valleys of quantities produced.</description>
    <pubDate>Fri, 07 Sep 2007 11:41:40 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>What Is Total Quality Management Principles</title>
    <link>http://www.bexcellence.org/Total-quality-management.html</link>
    <description>What Is Total Quality Management , it  is a methode for business excellence</description>
    <pubDate>Tue, 04 Sep 2007 14:52:25 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>self assessment</title>
    <link>http://www.bexcellence.org/self-assessment.html</link>
    <description>In self assessment we emphasised the importance of a management team gaining a common understanding of these Fundamental Concepts</description>
    <pubDate>Tue, 04 Sep 2007 10:00:02 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>waste categories</title>
    <link>http://www.bexcellence.org/waste.html</link>
    <description>8 waste categories , Overproduction :Reduce lot size/batch size , Waiting:  Balance workloads</description>
    <pubDate>Tue, 04 Sep 2007 09:12:23 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>kanban demand pull</title>
    <link>http://www.bexcellence.org/Kanban.html</link>
    <description>Kanban is a Japanese word that means &quot;card&quot; or &quot;signal.&quot;</description>
    <pubDate>Tue, 04 Sep 2007 08:37:10 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>One Piece Flow</title>
    <link>http://www.bexcellence.org/One-Piece-Flow.html</link>
    <description>one piece flow is to connect and synchronize each individual activity process to eliminate the eight categories of waste</description>
    <pubDate>Mon, 03 Sep 2007 16:14:58 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>5S visual management </title>
    <link>http://www.bexcellence.org/5S-visual-management.html</link>
    <description>5S visual management is defined as an improvement process originated by the Japanese to create a workplace</description>
    <pubDate>Mon, 03 Sep 2007 16:05:49 GMT</pubDate>
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