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Quality Improvement: Problem Solving

Week 6AgendaAgenda Review homework

• Problems Ch 3: 2, 4 Ch 3: Quality tools desksides

• Flow chart• Pareto Diagram• Histogram• Cause and Effect Diagram• Check sheet• Scatter diagram• Control chart• Why-why• Force field analysis• Brainstorming

Week 7 assignment • Read chapter 4• Homework problems:

Ch 3 - 9, 11, 33• Case Study: "How

We Slashed Response Time"

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Quality ToolsQuality ToolsChapter 3: Problem Solving

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Quality Control ToolsQuality Control Tools• Pareto chart• Histogram • Process flow diagram• Check sheet• Scatter diagram• Control chart

• Run chart• Cause and effect diagram

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Pareto PrinciplePareto Principle Vilfredo Pareto (1848-1923) Italian

economist• 20% of the population has 80% of the

wealth Juran used the term “vital few, trivial

many”. He noted that 20% of the quality problems caused 80% of the dollar loss.

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Pareto chartPareto chart

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FlowchartsFlowcharts Flowcharts

• Graphical description of how work is done.• Used to describe processes that are to be

improved.

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Flow DiagramsFlow Diagrams" Draw a flowchart for whatever you do. Until you do, you do not know what you are doing, you just have a job.”

-- Dr. W. Edwards Deming.

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FlowchartFlowchart

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Flow DiagramsFlow Diagrams

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Flow DiagramsFlow Diagrams

Process Chart SymbolsProcess Chart Symbols

Operations

Inspection

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Check SheetCheck Sheet

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Check SheetCheck Sheet

COMPONENTS REPLACED BY LABTIME PERIOD: 22 Feb to 27 Feb 1998REPAIR TECHNICIAN: Bob

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Integrated Circuits ||||Capacitors |||| |||| |||| |||| |||| ||Resistors ||Transformers ||||CommandsCRT |

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Cause-and-Effect DiagramsCause-and-Effect Diagrams Show the relationships between a

problem and its possible causes. Developed by Kaoru Ishikawa (1953) Also known as …

• Fishbone diagrams• Ishikawa diagrams

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Cause and Effect Cause and Effect “Skeleton”“Skeleton”

QualityProblem

Materials

EquipmentPeople

Procedures

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Fishbone Diagram Fishbone Diagram

QualityProblem

MachinesMeasurement Human

ProcessEnvironment Materials

Faulty testing equipment

Incorrect specifications

Improper methods

Poor supervision

Lack of concentration

Inadequate training

Out of adjustment

Tooling problems

Old / worn

Defective from vendor

Not to specifications

Material-handling problems

Deficienciesin product design

Ineffective qualitymanagement

Poor process design

Inaccuratetemperature control

Dust and Dirt

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Cause and effect diagramsCause and effect diagrams Advantages

• making the diagram is educational in itself• diagram demonstrates knowledge of

problem solving team• diagram results in active searches for

causes• diagram is a guide for data collection

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Cause and effect diagramsCause and effect diagrams

To construct the skeleton, remember: For manufacturing - the 4 M’s

man, method, machine, material For service applications

equipment, policies, procedures, people

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Scatter DiagramScatter Diagram

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Run ChartsRun Charts Run Charts (time series plot)

• Examine the behavior of a variable over time.

• Basis for Control Charts

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Control ChartsControl Charts

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““Stem and leaf” displaysStem and leaf” displays

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DataIntegrated Circuit Response Time (ps)

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Dot diagramsDot diagrams

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