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	<title>Brian R. Nichols</title>
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	<description>Tags: CQE, Quality, Assurance, Engineering, Lean, Six Sigma, Leadership</description>
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		<title>living is so dear</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Sunderland’s are my new heroes especially Abby Sunderland the 16 year old girl attempting to sail around the world alone who was recently lost, then found, at sea.  Her small sail boat was tossed by wind and 30 foot waves.  Her mast and rigging were destroyed.  Communication was lost, but she had the fortitude [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://brianrnichols.com/?p=315</link>
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		<title>Rules for a successful college career.</title>
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I was lucky to have a very odd and very liberal college English professor my freshman year in a very conservative college.  He was obviously used to students&#8217; unproductive attitudes towards his class.  So, he started the semester by giving us two rules for success in his class and college in general.
1) Complete and turn [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://brianrnichols.com/?p=287</link>
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		<title>Poka-yoke Outlook with a macro to prevent missing attachments and empty subject lines.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I had a bad day last week.  I forgot the subject in one e-mail and an attachment in another.  Finally tired of feeling like an idiot (although, as a colleague of mine pointed out, If that&#8217;s the biggest problem I have . . .), I snooped around the internet and found two reminder macros.  The [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://brianrnichols.com/?p=277</link>
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		<title>All you wanted to know about ASQ Certification Exams: Courtesy of ASQ section-402</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ASQ Toronto Section-402 has an in depth review of everything you want to know about ASQ certification exams.  For instance there was a 42% pass rate for the June 2009 CQE exam.  I have been asked these questions many times. They even detail a preparation strategy that is very similar to mine (I wrote about [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://brianrnichols.com/?p=271</link>
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		<title>Rant: ASQ Exam Questions and Ignoramuses.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s easy to spot someone who has not studied for the CQE exam, even those that pass it.  They always complain about the wording of the questions.  The correct answer, they say, was not an option.  Or, there were multiple correct answers depending on the situation.  The slackers are projecting their ignorance into the exam.
ASQ [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://brianrnichols.com/?p=239</link>
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		<title>The CQE Exam is Easy.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A coworker of mine just found out he passed the CQE exam.  He started studying 4 days before the exam.  Two days before the exam, he was feeling a bit nervous.
What advice did I give him?  With two days to go before the exam, there is no time for learning.  I focused emergency exam taking [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://brianrnichols.com/?p=234</link>
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		<title>Lean Production Simplified by Pascal Dennis</title>
		<description><![CDATA[1. What new insights were gained as a result of reading the book (article, essay, post, etc.)?
Having never used them in practice, I am fascinated by Toyota&#8217;s A3 reports described on page 134.  The A3 methodology is a template for completely documenting a problem and solution on one A3 size piece of paper (A3 is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://brianrnichols.com/?p=225</link>
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		<title>ASQ Exam Glossary</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Taking a good glossary to ASQ examinations is very important.  This downloadable glossary posted on Scribd should do the trick.
Also, this web based glossary posted on 6sixsigma is top notch, just be prepared to spend a lot of time stitching the pages together for printing, if you want to use it on the exam.
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		<link>http://brianrnichols.com/?p=217</link>
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		<title>Statistical Process Control (SPC) Downloads</title>
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SPC Cookbook by Sid Sytsma, retired professor at Ferris State University (posted with permission).  I downloaded his quality tools material several years ago when I was studying for the CQE exam, and it has been a ready reference ever since.
X and mR Chart &#8211; AKA Individuals and Moving Range Charts (File=MS Excel Paper=tabloid 11 X [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://brianrnichols.com/?p=187</link>
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		<title>The New Manufacturing Challenge: Techniques for Continuous Improvement -By Kiyoshi Suzaki</title>
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I read this book for training at work.  I highly recommend it.   Too often business books read like a technical journal.  The New Manufacturing Challenge is an easy read.  On with the questions:
1. What new insights were gained as a result of reading the book (article, essay, post, etc.)?

Not much truly new, &#8220;after all,&#8221; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://brianrnichols.com/?p=172</link>
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