Analyse Phase Tools: Six Sigma
First developed by Motorola company, the Six Sigma was used to set high objectives, data gathering, and analysis. It aimed to minimize the possible defects on both products and services. The idea behind the Six Sigma was that the measurement of the range of defects is in a process that can show how to systematically fix them to achieve the point where it is almost perfect.
As the name suggests, the Six Sigma has six tools. This paper focused on two of those, namely the Cause-Effect Tool and the Histogram Tool. The Cause and Effect tool, which is also known as the Fishbone Diagram, is an excellent tool in solving a problem that appears to have a lot of root causes. In order to use this tool, the problem must be constructed in an interrogative manner. It has to ask a question that will serve as the backbone of the fish upon which the possible solutions will stem out. The histogram, on the other hand, serves to summarize and present the distribution of a data set. Unlike the Cause-Effect Tool, the Histogram is made by constructing segments of the range of the data presented into bins of the same size. This tool answers questions like the most common system response and distribution that the data has.
Personally, for an international student, the Cause and Effect Tool helps me to cope better with foreign surroundings. The influx of new ideas, which are all alien to an international student, could be overwhelming. In order to keep one’s composure and sanity, it is needed to systematically solve a problem by laying down all its possible root cause then proceed by figuring out all the viable solutions.
