7 stage improvement process

A seven stage process improvement process that came out of Japan has been widely adopted in many industries. The seven stages are:

• Project theme selection: Identify the focus of the problem, including customers and success measures. Then measure.
• Grasp present status: Understand and focus by mapping process and Pareto-ing data.
• Analyze: Identify root causes and solutions
• Implement Corrective Action: including training, etc.
• Check the effects: Analyze results, determining why any failures occurred.
• Standardize and control: To hold the gains.
• Conclusions and future plans: Determining the savings, celebrating, etc.

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