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Five Whys technique

Five Whys technique

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Five Whys technique

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Plan, do, check, and act. It's a implementation of the scientific method, but applied to a manufacturing or software engineering context. First, in the planning phase you need to identify the problem. So, we need to build an automation tool that looks at inventory. Next you go ahead and try that solution out. Once you've done the initial prototype, you want to check to make sure it actually accomplishes the business goal, right? So, if you had some automation around inventory, it should have an accurate count of the inventory. So, you'd go through and analyze the results. If in fact it does work, then you would act by putting this into a production component of your facility. If it doesn't work, you would need to go through, back again to the planning phase, identify what the problems are, and then go back and repeat this process. So really, the plan do, check, act is an iterative process that constantly improves things. And this is a key component of the Kaizen methodology. This is…

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