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ElectronicBrainstorm Database

Brainstorming stimulates new thinking and creates the maximum number of ideas in the minimum amount of time

Brainstorm PotentialCauses

Capture Potential Cause Brainstorm Results

5M Approach &Cause & Effect Diagram

Combine 5M & Brainstorming

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Brainstorm Potential Causes

ENCOURAGE team members to write whatever spontaneously occurs to them without critically evaluating it.

SPECIFY A TIME LIMIT for the brainstorming session; something like 30 minutes, but a longer or a shorter time may be necessary.

Damaged Washer

Fitment Damage

Missing Washer

Adaptor Damaged Thread

Under Torque

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Squareness of Value

Wrong Washer

Damaged FaceValve

Mixing of Good/

Rejected Parts

Washer Hardnes

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Valve Smoothne

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Viscosity of Value

Washer Hardness

D4 Brainstorm ideas - Get the team to individually come up with as many ideas as possible as to WHY THE PROBLEM HAS OCCURRED. This usually works best if each idea is WRITTEN on a ‘post it’ and then STUCK UP on a board for the rest of the team to evaluate once the brainstorming session is over.

DamagedFaceValve

MissingWasher

D4 Add the data to the software by TYPING the idea in the YELLOW BLOCK provided, followed by selecting UPDATE ENTRY.

This will individually add all the ideas to the database.

Brainstorm PotentialCauses

Valve Smoothness

Valve Smoothness

We can concurrently , or alternatively, use the Traditional 5M approach to brainstorm ideas

5M Approach & Cause & Effect Diagram

Note: The headers of the 5M can be altered to suit the PROBLEM

Combine 5M &Brainstorming

ElectronicBrainstorm Database

We now have a Data Base of Potential Causes of our ProblemThese were formed from the Brainstorming Output of • The Comparative (Is / Is Not ) Analysis• The 5M Analysis• Traditional Brainstorming

Somewhere amongst these POTENTIAL CAUSES may lay the ROOT CAUSE

If the ROOT CAUSE is not directly identified, it may be a combination or a derivative of these POTENTIAL CAUSES or alternatively will lead us … to the ROOT CAUSE/S.

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This completes theBrainstorming and 5M

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