What is the Check sheet used during DMAIC project?
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The check sheet is one of the best tools used during the Six Sigma project. This tool helps the project team with data collection of any process easily. This tool is quite popularly used for problem-solving at organizations as well as for process improvement work because of its easy useability.
In this article, We are going to understand this powerful process data collection tool with one practical example. We will cover its conceptual meaning, benefits, and how it helps during problem-solving.
With that practical example, I will show you how to make a check sheet and interpret its final result. So this article is going to be a complete guide on this powerful quality control tool. Let's begin...?
What is a Check sheet?
The check sheet is one of the tools from 7 quality control tools used for problem-solving during the Six Sigma project.
It is the graphical presentation of information, a data gathering, and interpretation tool which is also considered as the simplest way to assess common process problems.
The check sheet is used for collecting data in real-time and at the real location, where data is generated. This tool is pretty simple in design the reason behind its simplicity is that this is a data recording tool which is an easy task and 2nd reason is that it is most useful to those people who work on the shop floor or work very close to the process.
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Those people need some simple and easy-to-handle tools to collect data that's why it was designed simple. Right!
This tool helps the process improvement team in distinguishing between actual facts and opinions and also gathers data about how often a problem occurs in the process and the type of that problem.
Data collected on the check sheet shows what happens on the shop floor or in the process over a period of time. That data is errors or defects which occurred in the process and that is recorded on a daily basis.
This data from the check sheet is useful during the project team's brainstorming session. This check sheet is generally a blank form that is designed for the Read more...