Plan · Do · Check · Act
You need to improve flow, reduce waste, understand causes, or stabilize quality.
Open card →32 tools · 6 subcategories
Processes, Flow & Quality
Flow, Lean, quality, and causal analysis. Where are time and value being lost?
Where to start
Core set
If this topic is new to you, start with these tools.
Quality
Total Quality Management
The process is slow, unstable, or creates unnecessary waste.
Open card →Cost of Quality
The process is slow, unstable, or creates unnecessary waste.
Open card →Shewhart Control Charts
You need to improve the process, flow, or quality of the outcome.
Open card →Quality Report
You need to improve the process, flow, or quality of the outcome.
Open card →Failure Mode and Effects Analysis
Potential failures are discovered too late, after defects or incidents have already occurred.
Open card →Poka-Yoke
Recurring human errors continue to create defects despite reminders and training.
Open card →Process mapping
Supplier · Input · Process · Output · Customer
You need to improve flow, reduce waste, understand causes, or stabilize quality.
Open card →Flowchart
You need to improve the process, flow, or quality of the outcome.
Open card →UML / BPMN
You need to improve the process, flow, or quality of the outcome.
Open card →Flow & Lean
VSM
You need to improve flow, reduce waste, understand causes, or stabilize quality.
Open card →KMM
You need to improve flow, reduce waste, understand causes, or stabilize quality.
Open card →Drum · Buffer · Rope
You need to improve the process, flow, or quality of the outcome.
Open card →Kanban
You need to improve the process, flow, or quality of the outcome.
Open card →Cycle Time Chart
You need to improve the process, flow, or quality of the outcome.
Open card →Cumulative Flow Diagram
You need to improve the process, flow, or quality of the outcome.
Open card →Lead Time Chart
You need to improve the process, flow, or quality of the outcome.
Open card →Value Stream Map Artifact
You need to improve the process, flow, or quality of the outcome.
Open card →Kanban Board
You need to improve the process, flow, or quality of the outcome.
Open card →5S
The workplace or digital environment creates friction, searching, inconsistency, and avoidable waste.
Open card →Seven Wastes of Lean
The process contains activity that consumes time or resources without creating customer value.
Open card →Operational improvement
Gemba Walk
You need to improve flow, reduce waste, understand causes, or stabilize quality.
Open card →Process Analysis
The process is slow, unstable, or creates unnecessary waste.
Open card →TOC Diagram
You need to improve the process, flow, or quality of the outcome.
Open card →DMAIC
A process problem is persistent and needs a disciplined, data-driven improvement approach.
Open card →Root-cause analysis
Root Cause Analysis
The process is slow, unstable, or creates unnecessary waste.
Open card →5 Whys
You need to improve the process, flow, or quality of the outcome.
Open card →Ishikawa Diagram
You need to improve the process, flow, or quality of the outcome.
Open card →A3 Analysis
You need to improve the process, flow, or quality of the outcome.
Open card →Cause-and-Effect Diagram
You need to improve the process, flow, or quality of the outcome.
Open card →8D Problem Solving
A serious defect keeps recurring and requires cross-functional containment and root-cause removal.
Open card →Other tools
Quality Management Plan
You need to improve the process, flow, or quality of the outcome.
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