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Just wanted to drop you a note to thank you again for conducting the problem solving training for us. I had been hearing great things about the training, and now I know first-hand! The training can be a tremendous benefit for us as long as we use it. You’ll be pleased to know I saw one of the guys conducting one of the tools this morning with a small group in the cafeteria – that’s fast action!
Lucy R. Janoush, Human Resources Manager, Baxter Healthcare Corporation
Deviation Analysis: Solving Problems, Maximizing Assets
We teach your people the tools needed to skillfully operate their part of the business like they owned the business.
Deviation Analysis is the Reality-Based Technology that gets your machines or process back online quickly when a deviation occurs. Deviation Analysis systematically guides your people to ...
- Define the Deviation simply and insightfully
- Gather, sort and organize the readily-available information
- Determine where more information is needed and how it will be collected
- Identify possible causes based on data analysis
- Rule out those causes which do not make sense
- Confirm the root cause
- Plan appropriate actions to effectively deal with the Deviation
Deviation Analysis
Deviation Analysis provides a common language and standard approach that easily integrates with and drives additional value from other operational improvement initiatives such as Lean Manufacturing, Six Sigma, statistical process control and others.
Benefits
When your employees understand the elements of Deviation Analysis and have the common language our workshop provides, the quality of their work increases. They learn to deal with causes, not symptoms, resulting in less down-time and higher quality. In addition, client interaction becomes both more efficient and more effective, as does change implementation.
- Find the cause of deviations more quickly
- Rule out costly, time-consuming "fixes" that won't work and
- Select more effective long-term fixes so that your machine or process "stays fixed."
Contact an FSTD representative to discuss Deviation Analysis
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Related Resources
We have recorded several broadcasts devoted to Deviation Analysis. Listen via iTunes.
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