6. Ishikawa method (cause-consequence-5M trees)
6.1 Origins and applications
Japanese professor Koaru Ishikawa began his engineering career in shipbuilding, and is the founding father of quality circles. In 1982, he finalized the Ishikawa diagram, also known as the fishbone diagram, cause-consequence diagram or cause-effect diagram, an extremely rigorous tool for identifying the various causes of a single effect, consequence or desired result.
The Ishikawa diagram provides the root causes of a problem, with a structured representation of all the causes that produce a given effect or consequence. The general structure...
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Bibliography
Websites
De JONG (H.H.), interesting Eurocontrol site on methods for identifying risks and their criticality http://www.nlr-atsi.nl/downloads/guidelines-for-the-identification-of-hazards.pdf
LINDQVIST (P.), NORDÄNGER (U.-K.), interesting site on e-Delphi methods
Standards and norms
- Evaluation Criteria for reliability-centered maintenance (RCM) Processes - SAE JA 1011 - 1999
- A Guide to the Reliability-Centered Maintenance (RCM) Standards - SAE JA 1002 - 2002
- Operator/Manufacturer Scheduled Maintenance Development, rev 2011 - ATA MSG-3 - 2011
- Dependability management –Part 3-11: Application guide – Reliability-based maintenance - CEI 60300-3-11 - 1999
- Reliability-centered...
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