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Six Sigma Catapult Report
Due: 5:00 p.m. May 7th Electronic and Hard Copy
The Catapult Report consisting of three parts combines your “Secret Ingredient” work and DOE activities (April 23 to 28), and a reflections section devoted to performance analyses, improvement thinking and takeaways. The percentages shown below indicate weighting importance for grading.
Report Part I: The Secret Ingredient (30%)
1. Documentation of and supporting rationale for the final SOP that you used in the April 28, in-class “Shoot-off” activities.
Report Part II: DOE and Model Preparations (20%)
Document your DOE preparations for the April 28 class and comment where requested below. These items parallel the preparations assignment activities.
o List the three experimental factors (variables) you selected and state rationale for your selections
o List the levels for each of the three experimental variables.
o Include your excel file of the “Coded Design Matrix” with the distances data set.
o Include your regression table and comment on significance analyses.
o Provide your Y = f(X) predictive model and offer any comments to support it.
Report Part III (50%)
Covers “Shoot-off” Performance Analysis, Improvement Thinking and Lessons
- State how you determined the factor settings for the April 28 announced target distances.
- List the Catapult settings your Group used to launch the ball to the two announced target distances; and show your actual shoot-off distance outcomes and the summed squared differences (actual vs. target) for each target.
- State the outcomes of the surprise ending activity, your approach to determing how to meet the objective of the activity and comment on your performance outcome.
- Assess your performance of April 28 relative to launching the ball to the two announced targets, addressing
· five root causes of performance deviations from the announced targets and your Y =f(X) predicted outcomes,
· five critical things you would do to prepare for another competition with newly announced targets,
· five key lessons/takeaways from the Catapult exercise.
GBUS 7608: General Management and Operational Effectiveness
Spring 2010