Quality Management - Quality Management Tools


Overview/Description
Target Audience
Expected Duration
Lesson Objectives
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Overview/Description
Quality Management: Quality Management Tools offers the student an overview of tools used to analyze a company's current performance and problem causes, as well as tools used to generate ideas and organize data. The program details the purposes of and steps for creating flow charts, check sheets, histograms, run charts, control charts, cause-and-effect diagrams, Pareto charts, scatter diagrams, interrelationship diagrams, affinity diagrams, activity network diagrams, and brainstorming.

Target Audience
Managers, supervisors, or team leaders who need to learn how to implement quality measures in order to increase quality within their organization. It is recommended that individuals take the first course in the series or have equivalent knowledge.

Expected Duration (hours)
3.0

Lesson Objectives

Quality Management - Quality Management Tools

  • Identify types of flow charts
  • Sequence the steps for creating a histogram
  • Given four histograms, select the one with the least amount of variation
  • Given four histograms, select the one that shows the process that is in need of the most improvement
  • Sequence the steps for creating a run chart
  • Identify characteristics of control charts
  • Sequence the steps for creating a cause-and-effect diagram
  • Given a Pareto chart, select the category that would provide the most benefit when improvement efforts are applied to it
  • Identify the data relationships that can occur between two variables
  • Sequence the steps for creating an interrelationship diagram
  • Sequence the steps for brainstorming
  • Identify the purpose of affinity diagrams
  • Identify the benefits provided by knowing the critical path of a project
  • Course Number:
    en_US_44712_ng