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The Affinity Diagram allows you to take what initially
seemed a large unrelated grouping of information and organize it in such
a way as to easily recognize new trends or patterns of information.
The Interrelationship Digraph can take ideas from the
Affinity Diagram, or any other source, and show how they relate to one
another. Often used as a tool to determine the underlying causes of situations,
an Interrelationship Digraph can easily allow you to see which causes
are fundamental to the solution.
The Prioritization Matrix takes the specific assignments,
tasks, or options – and through a systematic procedure, assigns weighted
measures. These measures are then used to prioritize and determine the
relative importance of each.
The Matrix Diagram is used to rate the correlation between
groups of ideas to achieve agreement on the most critical for decision
making.
Used when the steps of a proposed process need to be analyzed,
the PDPC chart shows the what ifs and the possible countermeasures if
a situation does occur.
Once the important issues are apparent, the Tree Diagram
is used to stratify ideas by increasing level of detail. The Tree Diagram
helps take broad goals or ideas and narrow them into specific assignments,
tasks, or options.
This management tool takes a known process, organizes
the steps and determines the critical path and time to accomplish all
tasks and subtasks.
The Six Sigma 7MP Module provides a prompting tool to
assist in the formation of each type of chart. The prompting tool will
ask the necessary questions, such as, "Does 'number of items' cause/influence
processing times?" The program will then use this information to
create the actual chart.
Since the 7MP tools are often used as a series of steps
leading to the final resolution of a problem, you can easily derive one
chart from another, avoiding unnecessary data input. The user has complete
flexibility to choose which items are included in the new chart.
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