Chapter 6. Simplified Process Flow Diagram
What you will learn in this chapter, as in the previous chapter, is that it's critical to identify and examine all of the possible causes for a problem. In addition to the fishbone diagram discussed in the previous chapter, you can use the simplified process flow diagram to help identify key process input variables (KPIVs) in a process. But there's a difference between these two tools.
It is important to know where and when input variables affect a process so you can see if that makes sense with where the problem is being seen. Of special interest are positions in the process where inspection or quality sorting takes place or where process data is collected. By looking at data from these positions, ...
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