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What is 7 quality management tools in production?

Japanese are not only famous for Kaizen ideology, 5S practice or Lean 6 Sigma but also have other common quality management statistics tools namely 7 quality management tools. We will research into this set of management tools and their benefits to enterprises' application. Origins of 7 quality management tools.

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After World War II, Japanese companies had to run into numerous difficulties.  Japan Association of Engineers decided to design statistical tool systems in quality management for all classes of Japanese ministries. In addition to Kaizen ideology, this toolkit is called 7 quality management tools used commonly in the world.

We can confirm that the improvement in quality will not be effective if statistical tools are not applied.  However, there are up to thousands of statistical tools, it's necessary for enterprises to apply an appropriate tool with a view to achieving the highest efficiency.

Thanks to stastical and quality management tools, Japanese experts who have much experience can solve most of problems in quality management and production activities as well as service.

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7 main tools are:

  • Check Sheets
  • Charts
  • Cause & Effect Diagram
  • Pareto Analysis
  • Histogram
  • Scatter Diagram
  • Control Chart

There are some tools early applied such as Check Sheets has been applied since World War II while Pareto and Control Chart since the beginning of 20th century.  Cause & Effect Diagram was invented by Ishikawa, the rest of tools were gathered, researched and applied.

THE CONTENT OF TOOLS

1. Check Sheets

Introduction of Check Sheets

This is a simple storage medium for necessary data statistics, which helps enterprises to determine the order of priority in events. Check Sheets can be a form of record of past activities. This is also a means of tracking that allows you to notice the trend objectively.

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Check Sheets are used for:

- Control data distribution of an indicator in production.

- Supervise jobs.

- Find the causes of faulty products.

- Identify types of disability.

- Check defect locations.

The collection of check sheets will help to supervise events in chronological order or location.  Afterwards they can be used as input data of Pareto Chart.   For example, in terms of issues such as numbers of overflow/month, maintenance call / week, gathered harmful waste / working hours, etc.

  1. Charts 2.1.
    Introduction of Charts
    The second tool is Charts. Here is a drawing to help to show the correlation between figures or quantities. This chart will help you to visualize data so you can easily catch problems.

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There are various charts: Line chart, Column and Line Chart, Pie Chart, Bar Chat, Gantt Chart, Spider Web Chart.

  1. Cause & Effect Diagram
    Introduction of Cause and Effect Diagram
    Fishbone Diagram has a list of causes of effects. This toolkit was developed in 1953 in Tokyo University by Kaoru Ishikawa Professor. He used this chart with the aim of explaining different factors arranged and connected with each other to engineers at Kawasaki steel plant. Therefore, fishbone diagram is also called Ishikawa or Fishbone Diagram.

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Goals:  Cause & Effect Diagram will help to detect causes quickly. Managers can take precautions and corrective actions for quality assurance. This is one of the most common tools in the discovery of causes and disabilities in production. Lean 6 Sigma pre-audit and practice courses usually apply this chart.

This tool is used for doing research, preventing potential threats. Fishbone, Ishikawa Chart or Tokuzei Yoin in Japanese are  different names of this chart.

Characteristics of this chart is to help us make a list then categorize potential causes but not give a method of eliminating it.

4. Pareto Analysis
Pareto's introduction

The fourth tool which also play a vital role is Pareto Chart (Pareto Analysis). This is one of charts used to allow administrators to classify important causes.  This chart use helps managers determine causes that should be solved.

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Goals:  Pareto Chart will help administrators sort out important reasons to determine priorities for key issues.  Pareto Chart helps to assess improvement efficiency.

Applicable Issues: Analyze data relating to decide which important factor is will affect that issue.

  • Pareto Chart indicates the number and the error percentage in mechanical processing. 

Pareto analysis also plays an important role in improvement.  Consequently, improvement needs carrying out with some statistical tools.

In quality management, we can see that:

  • 20% of causes leads to 80% of damage to quality.

5. Histogram
Introduction of Histogram

This is a simple column chart. They help to aggregate data to show the frequency of events.

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Histogram's goal is to supervise the distribution of product and process parameters.  Then, the capacity of process will be assessed (Whether process can meet requirements of production or not?) A line chart indicates problem appearance frequency (collected through check sheets).

Application: Take precautions before problems occur.

6. Scatter Diagram
Introduction of Scatter Diagram

Scatter Diagram is a data representation through graph. More specifically, noticeable values of one variable are plotted in points to values of the other without connecting points with a line. Scatter Diagram shows the relationship among 2 factors.

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Scatter Diagram's goal is to tackle problems and determine optimal conditions by analyzing cause and effect relationship among variables of 2 factors.

Chart analysis can help to discover how one factor is dependent on another and the degree of dependence among them.

7. Control Chart
Introduction of Control Diagram

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Control Diagram is a chart with limited lines calculated by statistical method with the aim of supervising the fluctuation of parameters concerning quality characteristics of products, following changes of process to control all risks when there is an up or down sign of chart.

Control Chart's goal is to detect unusual situations in production.


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