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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 (business)|quality]].<ref>{{cite book | last = Montgomery | first = Douglas | title = Introduction to Statistical Quality Control | publisher = [[John Wiley & Sons]], Inc. | date = 2005 | ___location = [[Hoboken, New Jersey]] | pages = 148 | url = http://www.eas.asu.edu/~masmlab/montgomery/ | isbn = 978-0-471-65631-9 | oclc = 56729567 | deadurl = yes | archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20080620095346/http://www.eas.asu.edu/~masmlab/montgomery/ | archivedate = 2008-06-20 | df = }}</ref> 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.<ref>{{Citation | last = Ishikawa | first = Kaoru | authorlink = Kaoru Ishikawa | title = What Is Total Quality Control? The Japanese Way | edition = 1 | year = 1985 | publisher = [[Prentice-Hall]] | ___location = [[Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey]] | isbn = 978-0-13-952433-2 | oclc = 11467749 | page = 198 | quote = From my past experience as much as ninetey-five percent of all problems within a company can be solved by means of these tools.}}</ref>

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| Control chart

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| Pareto chart

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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 (business)|quality]].{{sfn|Montgomery|2005|p=148}} 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.{{sfn|Ishikawa|1985|p=198|ps=: "From my past experience as much as ninety percent of all problems within a company can be solved by means of these tools."}}

The seven tools are:<ref>{{cite web sfn| url = http://www.asq.org/learn-about-quality/seven-basic-quality-tools/overview/overview.html | author = Nancy R. Tague | title = Seven Basic Quality Tools 2005| year p= 2004 | work = The Quality Toolbox | publisher = [[American Society for Quality]] | ___location = [[Milwaukee, Wisconsin]] | page = 15 | accessdate = 2010-02-05}}</ref><ref>{{Citation harvnb| last = Ishikawa | first = Kaoru | authorlink = Kaoru Ishikawa | title = What Is Total Quality Control? The Japanese Way | edition = 1 | year = 1985 | publisher p= [[Prentice-Hall]] | ___location = [[Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey]] | isbn = 978-0-13-952433-2 | oclc = 11467749 | page = 198 | quote ps=: "Elementary Statistical Method (the so-called Seven Tools) 1. Pareto chart: The principle of vital few; trivial many 2. Cause and effect diagram (This is not precisely a statistical technique) 3. Stratification 4. Check sheet 5. Histogram. 6. Scatter diagram (analysis of correlation through determination of median; in some instances, use of binomial probability paper) 7. Graph and control chart (Shewhart control chart)".}}</ref><ref>{{Citation sfn| last = Imai | first = Masaaki | authorlink = Masaaki Imai | title = Kaizen (Ky'zen), the Key to Japan's Competitive Success | edition = 1 | year = 1986 | publisher pp= [[Random House]] | ___location = [[New York City|New York]] | isbn = 9780394551869 | oclc = 13010323 | pages = 239–240 | quote ps=: "The seven statistical tools used for such analytical problem-solving are: 1. Pareto diagrams [&nbsp;...] 2. Cause-and-effect diagrams [&nbsp;...] 3. Histograms [&nbsp;...] 4. Control charts [&nbsp;...] 5. Scatter diagrams [&nbsp;...] 6. Graphs [&nbsp;...] 7. Checksheets."}}</ref>

*[[Ishikawa diagram|Cause-and-effect]] diagram (also known as the "fishbone" or Ishikawa diagram)

*[[Check sheet]]

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*[[Stratified sampling|Stratification]] (alternately, [[flow chart]] or [[run chart]])

The designation arose in [[postwar Japan]], inspired by the [[Benkei#Seven Famous Weapons|seven famous weapons]] of [[Saitō Musashibō Benkei|Benkei]].<ref>{{Citation sfn| last = Ishikawa | first = Kaoru | authorlink = Kaoru Ishikawa | title = Introduction to Quality Control | edition = 1 | year = 1990 | publisher p= 3A Corp | ___location = [[Tokyo]] | isbn = 978-4-906224-61-6 | oclc = 23372992 | page = 98 | quote ps=: "They were named the Seven QC Tools after the famous seven weapons of the Japanese [[Kamakura period|Kamakura-era]] warrior-priest Benkei which enabled Benkei to triumph in battle; so too, the Seven QC Tools, if used skillfully, will enable 95% of workplace problems to be solved. In other words, intermediate and advanced statistical tools are needed in about only 5% of cases."}}</ref> It was possibly introduced by [[Kaoru Ishikawa]] who in turn was influenced by a series of lectures [[W. Edwards Deming]] had given to Japanese engineers and scientists in 1950.<ref>{{cite web |last=Moore url|first=Matthew |date=30 November 2007 |title=The Seven Basic Tools of Quality |url=http://www.improvementandinnovation.com/features/article/seven-basic-tools-quality/ | title = The seven basic tools of quality | date = 2007-11-30 | website= Improvement and InnovationImprovementandinnovation.com | ___location = [[London]] | accessdate archive-url= 2013https://web.archive.org/web/20121019014101/http://www.improvementandinnovation.com/features/article/seven-05basic-tools-18quality/ | quote archive-date=19 IshikawaOctober had2012 a|access-date=18 desireMay to 'democratise quality': that is to say, he wanted to make quality control comprehensible to all workers, and inspired by Deming’s lectures, he formalised the Seven Basic Tools of Quality Control.2013}}</ref> At that time, companies that had set about training their workforces in [[quality control|statistical quality control]] found that the complexity of the subject intimidated the vast majority of their workers and scaled back training to focus primarily on simpler methods which suffice for most quality-related issues.<ref>{{Citation sfn| last = Ishikawa | first = Kaoru | authorlink = Kaoru Ishikawa | title = What Is Total Quality Control? The Japanese Way | edition = 1 | year = 1985 | publisher p= [[Prentice-Hall]] | ___location = [[Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey]] | isbn = 978-0-13-952433-2 | oclc = 11467749 | page = 18 | quote ps=: "It is true that statistical methods are effective, but we overemphasized their importance. As a result, people either feared or disliked quality control as something very difficult. We overeducated people by giving them sophisticated methods where, at that stage, simple methods would have sufficed."}} The [[Project Management Institute]] references the seven basic tools in ''[[A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge]]'' as an example of a set of general tools useful for planning or controlling project quality.{{sfn|Project Management Institute|2013|pp=236–238}}</ref>

The Seven Basic Tools stand in contrast to more advanced statistical methods such as [[survey sampling]], [[acceptance sampling]], [[statistical hypothesis testing]], [[design of experiments]], [[multivariate analysis]], and various methods developed in the field of [[operations research]].<ref>{{Citation | last = Ishikawa | first = Kaoru | authorlink = Kaoru Ishikawa | title = What Is Total Quality Control? The Japanese Way | edition = 1 | year = 1985 | publisher = [[Prentice-Hall]] | ___location = [[Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey]] | isbn = 978-0-13-952433-2 | oclc = 11467749 | pages = 198–9 | quote = I divide statistical methods into the following three categories according to their level of difficulty. 1. Elementary Statistical Method (the so-called Seven Tools) [...] 2. Intermediate Statistical Method [...] 3. Advanced Statistical Method (using computers concurrently)}}</ref>

The [[Project Management Institute]] references the Seven Basic Tools in ''[[A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge]]'' as an example of a set of general tools useful for planning or controlling project quality.<ref>{{cite book|title=A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge|date=2013|publisher=Project Management Institute|___location=Newtown Square, PA|isbn=978-1-935589-67-9|pages=236–238}}</ref>

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File:Cause and effect diagram for defect XXX.svg|Cause-and-effect diagram

File:Check sheet for motor assembly.svg|Check sheet

File:C control chart.svg|Control chart

File:Histogram of arrivals per minute.svg|Histogram

File:Pareto chart of titanium investment casting defects.svg|Pareto chart

File:Scatter diagram for quality characteristic XXX.svg|Scatter diagram

File:LampFlowchart.svg|Flow chart

File:SimpleRunChart.jpg|Run Chart

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The seven basic tools stand in contrast to more advanced statistical methods such as [[survey sampling]], [[acceptance sampling]], [[statistical hypothesis testing]], [[design of experiments]], [[multivariate analysis]], and various methods developed in the field of [[operations research]].{{sfn|Ishikawa|1985|pp=198–199|ps=: "I divide statistical methods into the following three categories according to their level of difficulty. 1. Elementary Statistical Method (the so-called Seven Tools)&nbsp;... 2. Intermediate Statistical Method&nbsp;... 3. Advanced Statistical Method (using computers concurrently)".}}

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==See also==

*[[A3 problem solving]]

*[[Eight Disciplines Problem Solving]]

*[[Seven Managementmanagement and Planningplanning Toolstools]]

==References==

===Footnotes===

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===Bibliography===

{{refbegin|35em|indent=yes}}

: {{cite book

|last=Imai

|first=Masaaki

|author-link=Masaaki Imai

|year=1986

|title=Kaizen (Ky'zen): The Key to Japan's Competitive Success

|edition=1st

|___location=New York

|publisher=Random House

|isbn=978-0-394-55186-9

|ref=harv

}}

: {{cite book

|last=Ishikawa

|first=Kaoru

|author-link=Kaoru Ishikawa

|year=1985

|title=What Is Total Quality Control? The Japanese Way

|translator-last=Lu

|translator-first=David J.

|edition=1st

|___location=Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey

|publisher=Prentice-Hall

|isbn=978-0-13-952433-2

|ref=harv

}}

: {{cite book

|last=Ishikawa

|first=Kaoru

|author-link=Kaoru Ishikawa

|author-mask={{long dash}}

|year=1990

|title=Introduction to Quality Control

|edition=1st

|___location=Tokyo

|publisher=3A Corp

|isbn=978-4-906224-61-6

|ref=harv

}}

: {{cite book

|last=Montgomery

|first=Douglas

|year=2005

|title=Introduction to Statistical Quality Control

|___location=Hoboken, New Jersey

|publisher=John Wiley & Sons

|isbn=978-0-471-65631-9

|ref=harv

}}

: {{cite book

|author=Project Management Institute

|author-link=Project Management Institute

|year=2013

|title=A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge

|edition=5th

|___location=Newtown Square, Pennsylvania

|publisher=Project Management Institute

|isbn=978-1-935589-67-9

|ref=harv

}}

: {{cite book

|last=Tague

|first=Nancy R.

|year=2005

|title=The Quality Toolbox

|edition=2nd

|___location=Milwaukee, Wisconsin

|publisher=ASQ Quality Press

|isbn=978-1-62198-045-2

|ref=harv

}}

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