Friday, October 1, 2010

Tally Charts and Quality Tools



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.

Cause and Effect Examples

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