Use Pareto Charts To Allocate Scarce Resources
Most everyone is familiar with Pareto Charts and how they can be used to help prioritize issues, ideas, and so on. But in addition to helping you prioritize your actions, you can use them with the addition of a ABC Classification to help you allocate limited resources, and become more focused and efficient in your job. Pareto charts were named after the Italian economist, Vilredo Pareto, who...
Read MoreMulti-vari Charts Help Identify Sources of Process Variation
A multi-vari chart is a useful tool to help you determine the sources of variation in a process. The chart was first described by Leonard Sedar in 1950. To develop a chart, the quality characteristic of interest is plotted across three horizontal panels that represent: Variability on a single piece Piece-to-piece variability Time-to-time variability The problem solving...
Read MoreAffinity Diagrams – A Process For Organizing Your Thoughts For Improvement
Affinity diagrams are a useful in that they can help you organize your thoughts and develop action plans when you are overwhelmed with many problems and not sure where to start. They are also useful when issues seem too large and complex to grasp or when group consensus is needed to take action. They can also be used when you need to analyze verbal data such as survey results and can help to...
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