Structured methods for finding and removing causes of defects and for improving a process step by step. A member belongs here when the cited article describes it as a quality management or problem solving method. The group is one of the groupings under this field in the Technology Atlas, and each member keeps its own entry with its own cited sources and its own place in the field. Its members appear in the Browse By view for the field, so a reader can move from this group to each member entry and to the sources cited there.
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Six Sigma (Wikipedia)
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Six Sigma (6σ) is a set of techniques and tools for process improvement.
Total quality management (Wikipedia)
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Management, in this context, highlights the obligation of executives to actively oversee quality through adequate funding, training, staffing, and goal setting.
Kaizen (Wikipedia)
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Kaizen (Japanese: 改善; "improvement") is a Japanese vocabulary word that outside of Japan has been adopted as a concept in business studies which asserts that significant positive results may be achieved due to the cumulative effect of many, often small (and even trivial) improvements to all aspects of a company's operations.
DMAIC (Wikipedia)
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DMAIC or define, measure, analyze, improve and control (pronounced də-MAY-ick) refers to a data-driven improvement cycle used for optimizing and stabilizing business processes and designs.
PDCA (Wikipedia)
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PDCA (plan-do-check-act), sometimes called plan-do-check-adjust is an iterative design and management method used in business for the control and continual improvement of processes and products.
Root-cause analysis (Wikipedia)
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In science and reliability engineering, root-cause analysis (RCA) is a method of problem solving used for identifying the root causes of faults or problems.
Failure mode and effects analysis (Wikipedia)
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Failure mode and effects analysis (FMEA; often written with "failure modes" in plural) is the process of reviewing as many components, assemblies, and subsystems as possible to identify potential failure modes in a system and their causes and effects.
Quality function deployment (Wikipedia)
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Quality function deployment (QFD) is a method developed in Japan beginning in 1966 to help transform the voice of the customer into engineering characteristics for a product.
Design of experiments (Wikipedia)
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Correctly designed experiments advance knowledge in the natural and social sciences and engineering, with design of experiments methodology recognised as a key tool in the successful implementation of a Quality by Design (QbD) framework.
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