Root Cause Analysis Explained ..

Well the whole process of this is quite step by step ,

Step 1. Problem Identification

The step 1 deals with identification and  clear cut idea of what the problem is whose cause has to be find out.Once this is clear the process goes to second step.

Step 2. Brainstorming of the various causes 

Now as i told earlier there are causes for this and this step deals with writing down all the causes which could be the possible cause for the main problem .

Step 3.  Classification Phase

Now as we know the various causes are from the five categories like People , Environment, Machines, Methods .

so the aim to classify and put the causes into there correct category.

Step 4 . Fish Bone Diagram

As the name suggests , fish bone diagram we need to draw the diagram in  the shape of a fish structure where the head of the fish is the problem and the fins and the branches  are the causes pointing to the main center line .

Step 5.  Analysis ( Root Cause)

We now need to focus on finding out what the main cause of the problem is ?

For this we see carefully as what are the causes which are in large numbers , the cause which is appearing the maximum times is the ROOT CAUSE.

Hence . Root Cause Analysis Explained.

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