TPM

(1) Cause-and-effect diagrams The cause-and-effect diagram (also known as the fishbone diagram or Ishikawa diagram) was developed by the Japanese quality guru Dr. Kaoru Ishikawa to express one of the basic principles of total quality management, that the desired product, target or other outcome is achieved not by directly controlling…

The QC story (or Improvement Story) is a simple, practical way of doing this and thereby solving problems efficiently.

In-house failure date (MTBFs), manufacturers’ data, test data, and other data for predicting the reliability of machinery, apparatus, components, behaviours, etc., are helpful for performing internal forecasting reviews on equipment.

Sporadic breakdowns have not been distinguished from chronic ones.