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Paper illustration for Root Cause Analysis.
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Root Cause Analysis
Paper illustration of Scatter Diagram with its method-specific working model.
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Scatter Diagram
Purposedifferent
When a problem keeps recurring and the cause stays unclear, the method exposes the underlying mechanism. It separates symptom, guess, and robust explanation from one another.When the question is whether two measures are related, the method makes patterns in the data picture visible. It separates felt correlations from relationships that actually show up in the data.
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MediumLow
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1-4 h30-90 min
Participantsdifferent
3-81-4
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Workshop + asyncWorkshop + async
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Problem Statement, Cause Hypotheses, Confirmed Causes, Action PlanScatter Plot, Korrelationsnotiz, Hypothesenliste
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Root causeProblem solvingQualityIncident
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Paper illustration for 8D Problem Solving.
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8D Problem Solving
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Root Cause Tree Analysis
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Barrier Analysis