A focus on continual improvement is one of the best benefits of an ISO-friendly Quality Management System. With an effective quality management system within your organization, you can bring lots of improvements that can lead your small or medium-sized business to great success.
However, you must a QMS that can fulfill all the principles set by the ISO 9001 standard in Saudi Arabia. If not, you must use the following quality control tools that can play an effective role in improving your QMS:
Before you proceed to use tools to improve your QMS, you must have data that can help you understand how your processes are currently performing. Through this analysis, you will come up with particular areas that need to be improved urgently.
There can be five important quality control tools that can help you present data in an easily understandable way that can lead to easy improvements also. Let’s find out!
1. Data Tables
To collect data in a tabulated format, data tables stand out as the best. Through data tables, you can effectively review all your data for trends. In case you are doing for your supplier, the tabulation can help you know which suppliers have got some defects and where the actual improvement is required.
2. Pareto Diagram
A perfect Pareto diagram can help you gather many types of information, especially where there is a need for improvement. The diagram helps you find all areas of problems or defects that are hindering your business processes. Moreover, the Pareto diagram also presents defects in a well-knitted graphical representation with a frequency from highest to lowest.
3. Scatter Diagram
On the other hand, scatter diagrams can help you compare two factors; time of day and defect quantity. It will help you see if there is any correlation. For example, if you experience more defects in the second half, the diagram can help you find out the causes and fix them.
4. Trend Analysis
Trend or run charts help you a lot of data associated with your business process graphically. The charts provide you a raw data through which, you can establish strong evidence regarding a process that needs some investigation or improvement.
5. Cause and Effects Analysis
Also called a fishbone diagram, cause and effects analysis is mostly used to find out the real cause of a problem, especially a severe problem. The six headings of the machine, material, method, men/women, measurement, and environment help you go through every expected or possible cause. Once you find it, you can easily eliminate it to run the concerned process smoothly.
