Cause and Effect Diagrams

Cause and Effect Diagrams are designed to identify the potential factors that cause an overall effect. The causes are grouped into the categories, each cause is a source of variation. ConceptDraw DIAGRAM powerful diagramming and vector drawing software provides the Fishbone Diagrams solution from the Management area of ConceptDraw Solution Park that allows to design the Cause and Effect Diagrams quick, easy and effective.

How to Construct a Fishbone Diagram

Fishbone, Ishikawa or Cause and Effect diagram helps understand the reasons of completed or potential actions by structuring their causes in smaller categories. Also, one can use it to see how the contributing factors are related to each other. In everyday company routine, a Cause and Effect diagram is helpful with a number of regular activities like brainstorming, project management, and problem solving. How to Construct a Fishbone Diagram? Construction a Fishbone diagram in professional diagramming software ConceptDraw DIAGRAM is more easy than you think. Just use the predesigned vector elements from the Fishbone Diagrams library for Fishbone Diagrams solution or one of plenty Fishbone templates and examples, and you will get a Cause and Effect diagram in minutes.

Total Quality Management Business Diagram

The Total Quality Management Diagram solution helps you and your organization visualize business and industrial processes. Create Total Quality Management diagrams for business process with ConceptDraw software.

Fishbone Diagram Template

A causal model is an abstract concept, that describes the causal mechanisms of a system, by noting certain variables and their influence on each other, in an effort to discover the cause of a certain problem or flaw. This model is presented in diagram form by using a fishbone diagram. ConceptDraw DIAGRAM diagramming and vector drawing software enhanced with Fishbone Diagrams solution helps you create business productivity diagrams from Fishbone diagram templates and examples, that provide to start using of the graphic method for the analysis of problem causes. Each predesigned Fishbone Diagram template is ready to use and useful for instantly drawing your own Fishbone Diagram.

Fishbone Diagrams

The Fishbone Diagrams solution extends ConceptDraw DIAGRAM software with the ability to easily draw the Fishbone Diagrams (Ishikawa Diagrams) to clearly see the cause and effect analysis and also problem solving. The vector graphic diagrams produced using this solution can be used in whitepapers, presentations, datasheets, posters, and published technical material.

Seven Basic Tools of Quality

Seven Basic Tools of Quality solution is useful for all ConceptDraw DIAGRAM users, giving them a particular set of different graphical techniques helping on focus on such activity as identifying the root cause of many quality-related issues. This solution offers the well-known visual tools helpful in representing all the data related to different quality initiatives. Some of such tools are the pre-made templates useful for making different fishbone diagrams, Pareto charts, and histograms. It is ideal for all who want to manage quality control throughout an organization by using a modern tool.

Fishbone Software Tools for Design Element

Cause and Effect diagram (Ishikawa diagram or Fishbone diagram) software helps you to show in one diagram the factors of Equipment, People, Process, Environment, Management and Materials, which all in general affect the overall problem and gives the base for the further analysis. ConceptDraw DIAGRAM is perfect software for designers and software developers who need to create Fishbone diagrams. You will get a simple problem-analysis tool - Fishbone software tools for design element to easy construct specific diagrams and identify many possible causes for an effect to attack complex problem solving.

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Use a Fishbone Diagram to Attack Complex Problems

Any project is a complex system which rarely goes without some problems, even the most minor. But the success of the project mostly depends from the ability effectively solve appearing problems. There are many methods for problem solving, one of the most effective is the use a Fishbone diagram to attack complex problems. Use ConceptDraw DIAGRAM diagramming software with Fishbone Diagrams Solution to attack any complex problems with fishbone diagrams graphic method. Construct Fishbone diagram to help users brainstorm and break down a complex problem.

The Fifty Two Elements of TQM

The Total Quality Management Diagram solution helps your organization visualize business and industrial processes. Create Total Quality Management diagrams for business process with ConceptDraw software.

Cause and Effect Analysis

Cause and Effect Analysis - The Seven Management and Planning Tools is a tool for Cause and Effect Analysis that allows users to analyze the root causes for factors that influenced the problem. This diagram is constructed separately for each highly prioritized factor. The Diagram is then used for further formulation of potential actions.

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Total Quality Management Value

The Total quality management (TQM) is an enterprise-wide method of continuous quality improvement of all organizational processes, including the enhancement of ability to deliver high-quality products and services to the customers. The TQM includes eight main elements, which have great value: customer-focused, process-centered, total employee involvement, integrated system, continual improvement, strategic and systematic approach, fact-based decision making, communications. ConceptDraw DIAGRAM diagramming and vector drawing software offers the Total Quality Management Diagram solution with effective drawing tools, predesigned vector elements, samples and templates that help easy design the Total Quality Management diagrams, TQM flowcharts and Mind Maps widely used in quality management projects to visualize the business processes and industrial processes for your organization, to demonstrate the quality control step-by-step in a visual manner, to compare visually the ideal and real stages of processes.

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Design elements - Fishbone diagram

The library of vector stencils "Fishbone diagrams" contains 13 symbols for drawing the Ishikawa diagrams using the ConceptDraw PRO diagramming and vector drawing software.
"Ishikawa diagrams were popularized by Kaoru Ishikawa in the 1960s, who pioneered quality management processes in the Kawasaki shipyards, and in the process became one of the founding fathers of modern management.
The basic concept was first used in the 1920s, and is considered one of the seven basic tools of quality control. It is known as a fishbone diagram because of its shape, similar to the side view of a fish skeleton." [Ishikawa diagram. Wikipedia]
"The Seven Basic Tools of Quality is a designation given to a fixed set of graphical techniques identified as being most helpful in troubleshooting issues related to quality. They are called basic because they are suitable for people with little formal training in statistics and because they can be used to solve the vast majority of quality-related issues.
The seven tools are:
(1) Cause-and-effect diagram (also known as the "fishbone" or Ishikawa diagram);
(2) Check sheet;
(3) Control chart;
(4) Histogram;
(5) Pareto chart;
(6) Scatter diagram;
(7) Stratification (alternately, flow chart or run chart)." [Seven Basic Tools of Quality. Wikipedia]
The example "Design elements - Fishbone diagram" is included in the Fishbone Diagrams solution from the Management area of ConceptDraw Solution Park.

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Business Productivity - Quality

Quality control is a process directed on the maintaining of proper standards in manufacturing and engineering, on the monitoring of manufacturing defects and their elimination. The quality control process is quite capacious and extensive, and in many cases requires the use of specialized software in help to quality managers, to facilitate their work. This process will be effective with Flowcharts and Mind Maps that are recognized as the main tools in quality management, and are perfect for visualization the key quality points, quality instructions and depiction in details the quality control process. The ideal software for Mind Maps design is offered by ConceptDraw Office suite, it is a ConceptDraw MINDMAP. The Quality Mind Maps solution included to ConceptDraw Solution Park and ConceptDraw MINDMAP application provide creative and professional approach to business productivity and visualization quality processes. They support you in tasks of drawing Quality Management Diagrams and Mind Maps, such as Value Stream Maps, Total Quality Management Mind Maps, Quality Management Presentations, Quality Meeting Diagrams, etc.

Fishbone Diagram Procedure

ConceptDraw DIAGRAM diagramming and vector drawing software enhanced with Fishbone Diagrams solution from the Management area of ConceptDraw Solution Park gives the ability to draw Fishbone diagram, which identifies many possible causes for an effect for problem solving. Fishbone Diagram procedure of creation includes the set of steps easy for execution in ConceptDraw DIAGRAM.

Horizontal Cross Functional Flowchart

ConceptDraw DIAGRAM is a powerful software that helps you create professional looking cross-functional flowcharts with the well-designed objects. ConceptDraw DIAGRAM allows you to focus on work, not the drawing process. ConceptDraw Arrows10 Technology allows to draw connectors with smart behavior that gives flexibility to you during work process.

TQM Tools

ConceptDraw DIAGRAM diagramming and vector drawing software enhanced with Total Quality Management (TQM) Diagrams solution from the Quality area of ConceptDraw Solution Park is rich for the useful and effective TQM tools.

What is Value Stream Mapping?

Value stream maps (VSM) are an essential tool for organizations applying Lean methods.

When To Use a Fishbone Diagram

Well constructed Fishbone diagrams work for most entrepreneurs and almost any industry or person having a problem. Professional diagramming software may help you create Fishbone (Cause and Effect or Ishikawa) diagrams. When people are unclear about what is causing an issue, ConceptDraw DIAGRAM will be your lifesaver. When to use a Fishbone diagram? Originally developed as a quality control tool, you may find a Fishbone diagram helpful when used in many cases, such as to analyze a complex problem when there are many causes, for identifying all possible root causes for an effect or a problem, when you need different point of view to look on a problem, to uncover bottlenecks and identify where and why a process doesn't work, for acceleration a process when traditional ways of problem solving consume many time.