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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Joined March 2009
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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

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/…

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/…

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/…

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 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

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/…
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Mark Graban@MarkGraban
4 Nov 2020
Everybody, report this tweet as being false election information. Votes are being “counted” not “cast”
Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
4 Nov 2020
We are up BIG, but they are trying to STEAL the Election. We will never let them do it. Votes cannot be cast after the Polls are closed!
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Who Uses Statistical Design Of Experiments In Manufacturing? michelbaudin.com/2020/10/30/…

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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