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First
seven tools
In the quality improvement movement in Japan in the
latter half of the 20th century, the Japanese Union of Scientists and
Engineers (JUSE) were influential in defining a set of basic tools that
could be used for improving processes. These came to be known as the first
seven tools. They are:
- Cause-Effect Diagram
- Pareto Chart
- Check Sheet
- Scatter Chart
- Bar Chart and other graphs
- Histogram
- Control Chart
Despite some fancy-sounding names, they are mostly very
simple and easy to use: the trick is in consistent and appropriate use,
not intellectual gymnastics and elitist occasional usage. The
tool that requires most thought and understanding is the Control
Chart. A number of these tools are only usable
when a significant amount of numerical data is available. For situations
where the data is more qualitative there is a second set of seven tools
defined (seven seems to be a magical quality number :-).
See also:
Second
seven tools, Cause-Effect
Diagram, Pareto Chart, Check
Sheet, Scatter Chart, Bar
Chart, Histogram, Control Chart
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