Introduction to Minitab Training Course

Overview of our Minitab Training Course

This introductory course to Minitab is mean't to assist people who are training as Six Sigma Green, Black or Master Black Belts. The course explains how to use this simple statistical software package to enable all the complex calculations associated with some Six Sigma projects. The course is designed to provide much needed hands on learning where real data can be used to demonstrate the strengths of Minitab. Some understanding of statistical tools is an advantage prior to attending the course. In your pre work for the course you will be invited to bring real data to the course so we can work on things that are live.

If you are a Six Sigma student or manager who has to work with Six Sigma projects then this is a must attend course.

Course Objectives

To demystify the Minitab software and how to use it
To use the software to produce statistical analysis from various types of data
To understand the best tool to use for different kinds of data
How to interpret the results from Minitab output
To practise using the tool with real data
Understand how to use the graphics and report writing part of the package

Course Content

Day 1

Introduction / Admin
What is Minitab and how to navigate round the software
Data types, entry and manipulation
Data importing and exporting
Basic graphical techniques – histograms, box plots, dot plots, time series plots – Minitab graphics
Minitab Report Manager
Descriptive statistics
Graphical Summary
Pareto analysis and Fishbone diagrams

Day 2