Focused Improvement

The broken surfaces should be examined under a magnifying glass or microscope to determine their condition and structure, and the part should be kept until the cause of the problem has been tracked down.

People tend to want to begin a P-M Analysis on whatever they have identified as a problem from examining the routine production data.

A good P-M Analysis satisfies the following three conditions: (1) It follows the correct thought process There must be a logical thread running from the phenomenon via physical analysis through contributing conditions, then 4-M correlations, to the phenomenon’s possible causes. This point requires careful attention because many P-M Analyses include…

The point is that P-M Analysis is not just another improvement tool; it is an entirely new way of examining and interpreting a situation.