Seven Basic Quality Tools

by ASQ Quality Press

"The Old Seven.""The First Seven.""The Basic Seven." Quality pros have many names for these seven basic tools of quality, first emphasized by Kaoru Ishikawa, a professor of engineering at Tokyo University and the father of “quality circles.” Start your quality journey by mastering these tools, and you'll have a name for them, "indispensable."Included in this straightforward, how-to book is a description, when to use, procedure, and example for these seven indispensable quality Cause-and-effect diagram (also called Ishikawa or fishbone chart): Identifies many possible causes for an effect or problem and sorts ideas into useful categories.2. Check A structured, prepared form for collecting and analyzing data; a generic tool that can be adapted for a wide variety of purposes.3. Control Graphs used to study how a process changes over time.4. The most commonly used graph for showing frequency distributions, or how often each different value in a set of data occurs.5. Pareto Shows on a bar graph which factors are more significant.6. Scatter Graphs pairs of numerical data, one variable on each axis, to look for a relationship.7. A technique that separates data gathered from a variety of sources so that patterns can be seen (some lists replace "stratification" with "flowchart" or "run chart").

30 pages, Kindle Edition

First published December 10, 2010

Reviews

[Kiran Kumbar]

Hi

[Sam Huish]

A good short read. Does what it says on the tin.

I was mainly reading it as revision of university work, so no great revelations.

Very good short read for explaining basic tools.