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Michel Baudin

@mbaudin

Since 1987, trainer, writer, and consultant on Lean to companies in the US, Europe, Asia, and Latin America.

 Palo Alto, CA
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Sales Forecasts – Part 4. Generating Point Forecasts with Trends and Seasonality michelbaudin.com/2021/10/08/…
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Distributed Teams Can Work After All michelbaudin.com/2021/08/29/…
Distributed Teams Can Work After All – Michel Baudin's Blog

Distributed Teams Can Work After All – Michel Baudin's Blog

The 2012 paper about CRISPR/Cas9 was the greatest breakthrough in biology since the DNA double helix. The team was split among 3 locations.

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Generating Sales Forecasts michelbaudin.com/2021/08/27/…
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Follett in 1924: Use Operators’ Knowledge michelbaudin.com/2021/07/31/…
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Follett in 1924: Use Operators' Knowledge – Michel Baudin's Blog

"Our aim should be so to organize the plant that the workmen’s experience can be added to that of the expert, and have the workmen learn." 

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Evaluating Sales Forecasts — Part II michelbaudin.com/2021/07/30/…

Sales Forecasts - Part 2. More About Evaluation – Michel Baudin's Blog

A probability forecast gives a distribution for each future point. The TPE evaluates the all these distributions for a testing set in one go.

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Assessment of Forecasts michelbaudin.com/2021/07/16/…
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Measuring QC Efficacy: A Proposal michelbaudin.com/2021/04/16/…
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Measuring QC Efficacy: A Proposal – Michel Baudin's Blog

The logic of establishing vaccine efficacy can validate the solution of some quality problems.

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COVID-19 Pfizer Vaccine Study On Teens michelbaudin.com/2021/04/02/…
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COVID-19 Pfizer Vaccine Study On Teens – Michel Baudin's Blog

Pfizer-BioNTech just announced the results of a COVID-19 vaccine trial of teens. They're great, but don't mean “100% efficacy.”

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Process capability michelbaudin.com/2021/03/12/…
Process capability – Michel Baudin's Blog

Process capability – Michel Baudin's Blog

Process capability is about expectations. It is not reduceable to a measurement. There is more to it than the Cp and Cpk.

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Of Bubbles and Arrows michelbaudin.com/2021/01/30/…

Of Bubbles and Arrows – Michel Baudin's Blog

Maps of symbols connected by lines are the most common form of graphic communication about operations… This is about what you can do with such maps.

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Deep Learning And Profound Knowledge michelbaudin.com/2021/01/05/…
Deep Learning And Profound Knowledge – Michel Baudin's Blog

Deep Learning And Profound Knowledge – Michel Baudin's Blog

Contrary to expectations, Deep Learning is not the process by which you acquire Profound Knowledge. As technical terms, they are unrelated. 

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Thanks to @dumontis for stepping up and sharing all of these details. Of particular interest is his description of Kazuo Kawashima’s rejection of the Pareto principle. According to @fvermet, Pareto was a bone of contention between Kawashima and Ken Sato,…lnkd.in/gQt2yag
QRQC: Quick Response Quality Control at Valeo | Rob van Stekelenborg michelbaudin.com/2020/12/17/…
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Nissan’s Quick Response Quality Control (QRQC) michelbaudin.com/2020/12/15/…
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More About VSMs From Jeffrey Liker michelbaudin.com/2020/12/07/…
Who Uses Statistical Design Of Experiments In Manufacturing? michelbaudin.com/2020/10/30/…
Who uses Design of Experiments in Manufacturing?

Who uses Design of Experiments in Manufacturing?

After SPC, Design of Experiments (DOE) dominates discussions of statistics in quality. Manufacturers, however, only use it in a few niches.

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More about Toyota and SPC michelbaudin.com/2020/09/26/…

More about Toyota and SPC – Michel Baudin's Blog

Toyota does not use SPC because its quality problems are not due to lack of process capability. We should be learning Toyota’s approach to quality.

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Does Toyota Use SPC? michelbaudin.com/2020/09/21/…
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Series Of Events In Manufacturing michelbaudin.com/2020/09/10/…
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Webinar on My Books for SESA Systems youtube.com/watch?v=vv4HgFnt… michelbaudin.com/2020/08/19/…

Four Lean Manufacturing Books in One Webinar with Author Michel Baudin

Author Michel Baudin Highlights Key Topics from his Four Books on M...

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