The Lean Six Sigma Engine

The tools are inside the project

Kanso puts the DMAIC tools inside each improvement project. When you open a project you get its charter, its measurements and its analysis together, and every calculation uses that project's own data from Define through Control.

An X-chart, a capability study and an FMEA all stay attached to the project that produced them, so the evidence and the improvement are the same record.

The DMAIC toolkit

The core Lean Six Sigma tools, each working on the project it sits in:

• Project charter, SIPOC, and CTQ/VOC to scope the problem and translate the voice of the customer.
• Sigma level and DPMO calculation to baseline current performance.
• Hypothesis testing and MSA / Gage R&R to confirm your data can be trusted.
• Statistical process control: X-charts, Cp/Cpk capability, Pareto and attribute charts (p, np, c, u), with Nelson run rules to detect out-of-control signals.
• Root-cause analysis (RCA), FMEA, and the Pugh / solution selection matrix to find and choose the fix.
• Control plan, value-stream map (VSM), tollgate reviews, and Design of Experiments (DOE) to hold the gain and tune the result.

Lean and planning tools

Kanso also includes the Lean and planning tools a project needs along the way:

• Data Collection Plan and Project Selection matrix to prioritize work and gather clean measurements.
• Poka-yoke register to record mistake-proofing controls.
• Stakeholder 2×2 map and Is/Is-Not analysis to frame scope and influence.
• Scored 5S audit for workplace organization.
• Spaghetti diagram: a canvas where you trace movement and Kanso reports the distance.

One shared statistics engine

One statistics engine does every calculation in these tools, from a sigma level to a capability index to the run-rule checks on a control chart. A Cpk on a capability study is therefore computed the same way as the Cpk in a control plan.