Friday, October 1, 2010
The Tally Chart as a Quality Tool
Continuous Quality Improvement will require you to utilise the various quality tools, one of which is the Tally chart or tally sheet.
The Tally chart is probably one of the most well known of the quality tools, most people having been introduced to this tool from their youngest days at school; using it to gather traffic data before drawing graphs of their findings. But the tally chart has far more use in an industrial setting to gather data enabling companies to gather meaningful data quickly and efficiently.
“In god we trust, All others bring data” is a saying that is attributed to the Quality Guru W.E. Deming, one quality tool that we can use to gather that data is the simple tally chart. One of the original 7 quality tools the tally sheet as a simple tool that can help a business to achieve continuous quality improvement. Without a planned program of continuous process improvement a business will eventually be overcome by its competitors, these tools can help a business to succeed where it may have otherwise have failed.
Use the Tally chart with the other quality tools to drive your program of continuous quality improvement to give your business the edge it needs to out compete its competitors.
Using the tally chart along with the other quality tools is an easy way to help you achieve continuous quality Improvement.
The Tally chart is probably one of the most well known of the quality tools, most people having been introduced to this tool from their youngest days at school; using it to gather traffic data before drawing graphs of their findings. But the tally chart has far more use in an industrial setting to gather data enabling companies to gather meaningful data quickly and efficiently.
“In god we trust, All others bring data” is a saying that is attributed to the Quality Guru W.E. Deming, one quality tool that we can use to gather that data is the simple tally chart. One of the original 7 quality tools the tally sheet as a simple tool that can help a business to achieve continuous quality improvement. Without a planned program of continuous process improvement a business will eventually be overcome by its competitors, these tools can help a business to succeed where it may have otherwise have failed.
Use the Tally chart with the other quality tools to drive your program of continuous quality improvement to give your business the edge it needs to out compete its competitors.
Using the tally chart along with the other quality tools is an easy way to help you achieve continuous quality Improvement.
Thursday, September 30, 2010
Cause and Effect - Fishbone / Ishikawa
There are a host of different quality tools that you could use for continuous Quality Improvement, one of the tools you could use is the Ishikawa Diagram or the Fishbone Diagram. A very effective tool to help you find all of the potential root causes for a specific problem, this quality tool helps you to organise your thoughts to solve these problems.
The Fishbone Diagram, or Ishikawa Diagram is one of the simple quality tools that can help a company achieve Continuous process Improvement. Without a planned program of continual Improvement of your business processes you will be unable to compete with your competition, these cause and effect diagrams will help you achieve continuous process improvement. Named after it's creator the Ishikawa or Fishbone diagram is an effective way to find the causes of many business problems and help you to solve them.
Named a Fishbone diagram because of its resemblance to a fishes skeleton the Ishikawa diagram allows you to arrange potential causes to a specific effect into a number of specific categories, the 4,5 or even 6Ms, Man, Method, Material, Machines, Metrics, and Mother nature.
This is a very simple and easy to use tool, especially when combined with the disciplines of other quality tools such as brainstorming. This cause and effect diagram can quickly and easily help you to identify the many causes of your problems.
With this quality tool available for your use you can work towards identifying all of the potential causes of your problems (the effect in a cause and effect diagram) and focus on eliminating then to continuously improve your quality and your business.
The Fishbone Diagram, or Ishikawa Diagram is one of the simple quality tools that can help a company achieve Continuous process Improvement. Without a planned program of continual Improvement of your business processes you will be unable to compete with your competition, these cause and effect diagrams will help you achieve continuous process improvement. Named after it's creator the Ishikawa or Fishbone diagram is an effective way to find the causes of many business problems and help you to solve them.
Named a Fishbone diagram because of its resemblance to a fishes skeleton the Ishikawa diagram allows you to arrange potential causes to a specific effect into a number of specific categories, the 4,5 or even 6Ms, Man, Method, Material, Machines, Metrics, and Mother nature.
This is a very simple and easy to use tool, especially when combined with the disciplines of other quality tools such as brainstorming. This cause and effect diagram can quickly and easily help you to identify the many causes of your problems.
With this quality tool available for your use you can work towards identifying all of the potential causes of your problems (the effect in a cause and effect diagram) and focus on eliminating then to continuously improve your quality and your business.
Quality Tools for Continuous Quality Improvement
There are a number of quality tools around that can help you with continuous quality improvement, most of which have been around for many years and proven many times over. These quality tools range from the easy tally chart as used by kids to do surveys at school to advanced statistical tools.
Continuous Quality Improvement is a vital skill that all businesses must implement if they wish to survive. Without a planned program of continuous improvement utilizing the various quality tools a company will fail to improve their business processes.Failure to apply continuous quality improvement to all of a company's products and processes will eventually lead to competitors offering better products and services, enabling them to take your business.
This Article will discuss the various Quality Tools and how they can help you with Continuous quality improvement. These quality tools are tried and tested, having been around for many years in most cases. Introduced by the various quality gurus such as Deming and Juran into the Japanese manufacturing industry after world war two, these ideas have helped them out compete the west.
These quality tools will help you to collect data and then arrange that data to be able to analyze it and find root causes to your problems. Using other tools you will be able to define solutions and monitor processes to ensure compliance and continual quality improvement.
Future postings within this blog will deal with the various quality tools that are available to use to help you drive continuous quality improvement.
Continuous Quality Improvement is a vital skill that all businesses must implement if they wish to survive. Without a planned program of continuous improvement utilizing the various quality tools a company will fail to improve their business processes.Failure to apply continuous quality improvement to all of a company's products and processes will eventually lead to competitors offering better products and services, enabling them to take your business.
This Article will discuss the various Quality Tools and how they can help you with Continuous quality improvement. These quality tools are tried and tested, having been around for many years in most cases. Introduced by the various quality gurus such as Deming and Juran into the Japanese manufacturing industry after world war two, these ideas have helped them out compete the west.
These quality tools will help you to collect data and then arrange that data to be able to analyze it and find root causes to your problems. Using other tools you will be able to define solutions and monitor processes to ensure compliance and continual quality improvement.
Future postings within this blog will deal with the various quality tools that are available to use to help you drive continuous quality improvement.
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