An introduction to some of the basic functions of SigmaXL Established in 1998, SigmaXL Inc. is a leading provider of user friendly Excel Add-ins for Lean Six Sigma graphical and statistical tools and Monte Carlo simulation. SigmaXL® customers include market leaders like Agilent, Diebold, FedEx, Microsoft, Motorola and Shell. SigmaXL® software is also used by numerous colleges, universities and government agencies. Our flagship product, SigmaXL®, was designed from the ground up to be a cost-effective, powerful, but easy to use tool that enables users to measure, analyze, improve and control their service, transactional, and manufacturing processes. As an add-in to the already familiar Microsoft Excel, SigmaXL® is ideal for Lean Six Sigma training and application, or use in a college statistics course.  DiscoverSim™ enables you to quantify your risk through Monte Carlo simulation and minimize your risk with global optimization. Business decisions are often based on assumptions with a single point value estimate or an average, resulting in unexpected outcomes. DiscoverSim™ allows you to model the uncertainty in your inputs so that you know what to expect in your outputs.

1. The Basics - SigmaXL®
Version 6.1
Introducing SigmaXL®
Why SigmaXL?
What’s Unique to SigmaXL?
Recall Last Dialog
Worksheet Manager
Data Manipulation

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3. Introducing SigmaXL®
Version 6.1
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Powerful.
User-Friendly.
Cost-Effective. Priced at $249, SigmaXL is a fraction
of the cost of any major statistical product, yet it has
all the functionality most professionals need.
Quantity, Educational, and Training discounts are
available.
Visit www.SigmaXL.com or call
1-888-SigmaXL (1-888-744-6295) for more
information.
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4. Why SigmaXL?
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Measure, Analyze, and Control your
Manufacturing, Service, or Transactional
Process.
An add-in to the already familiar Microsoft
Excel, making it a great tool for Lean Six
Sigma training. Used by Motorola University
and other leading consultants.
SigmaXL is rapidly becoming the tool of
choice for Quality and Business
Professionals.
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5. What’s Unique to
SigmaXL?
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User-friendly Design of Experiments with “view
power analysis as you design”.
Measurement Systems Analysis with Confidence
Intervals.
Two-sample comparison test - automatically tests for
normality, equal variance, means, and medians, and
provides a rules-based yellow highlight to aid the
user in interpretation of the output.
Low p-values are highlighted in red indicating that
results are significant.
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6. What’s Unique to
SigmaXL?
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Powerful Excel Worksheet Manager
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List all open Excel workbooks
Display all worksheets and chart sheets in selected workbook
Quickly select worksheet or chart sheet of interest
Process Capability and Control Charts for Nonnormal data
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Best fit automatically selects the best distribution or transformation!
Nonnormal Process Capability Indices include Pp, Ppk, Cp, and Cpk
Box-Cox Transformation with Threshold so that data with zero or
negative values can be transformed!
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7. Recall Last Dialog
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Recall SigmaXL Dialog
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This will activate the last data worksheet and recall
the last dialog, making it very easy to do repetitive
analysis.
Activate Last Worksheet
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This will activate the last data worksheet used
without recalling the dialog.
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8. Worksheet Manager
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List all open Excel
workbooks
Display all worksheets
and chart sheets in
selected workbook
Quickly select
worksheet or chart
sheet of interest
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9. Data Manipulation
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Subset by Category, Number, or Date
Random Subset
Stack and Unstack Columns
Stack Subgroups Across Rows
Standardize Data
Random Number Generators
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Normal, Uniform (Continuous & Integer),
Lognormal, Exponential, Weibull and Triangular.
Box-Cox Transformation
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