Materials Provided by PROMAX:

Microsoft Excel® templates for statistical analysis - available as downloads within the course material.

Materials Provided by Student/Company:

General Purpose Statistics Software is useful but not necessary. Excel templates are provided by the course for statistical analysis. If you do not have a statistics package, options range from free internet downloads to higher-end packages like Minitab, Statistica, JMP etc. You can download a 30-day evaluation copy of most statistics packages over the web.

Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Powerpoint). Office 2000 or higher is recommended. Office 97 does not take advantage of all Excel template features.

Optional Materials:

Microsoft Project, Microsoft Visio

PROMAX Six Sigma and Lean Enterprise Pocket Guides 

W. Edwards Deming, Out Of The Crisis (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Center for Advanced Engineering Study 1982, 1986) ISBN: 0-911379-01-0

Senge, Ross, Smith, Roberts, Kleiner, The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook - Strategies and Tools for Building a Learning Organization (Currency Doubleday, 1994) ISBN: 0-385-47256-0    Recommended for coverage of System Dynamics.

Peter S. Pande, Robert P. Neuman, Roland R. Cavanagh, The Six Sigma Way (McGraw-Hill 2000) ISBN: 0-07-135806-4