Templates  

The templates on this start screen have been selected to handle different tasks:

First Row: Reactive Methods

• Root Cause Analysis: Start a root cause analysis project. You may also use this template to plan and prepare a design of experiments for process or system optimization.
• Causal Loop Analysis: Start a causal loop analysis project. Calls loop analysis documents relationships between system elements, helping to generate an in depth understanding of a system under study or under design.
• Fault Tree Analysis: Start a fault tree analysis project. Fault tree analysis is used to identify events or combinations of events leading to a specific fault. This specific fault is the root of the tree. Quantitative fault tree analysis can be used to determine the probability of the fault occurring based on probabilities of events.
• Process Mapping: Document process flow, optionally adding a characteristics matrix and a control plan. Add process parameters, inputs and outputs per process step for root cause analysis or process optimization. Structure can be added in form of process functions as defined by the AIAG/VDA FMEA Handbook, for example using 4M or 6M (or “4MHE”: Machine, Material, Method, Measurement, Human, Environment) per process step.

Second Row: Preventive Methods

• Requirements Analysis: Collect and cluster voice of customer (VOC) requirements, prioritize using Analytical Hierarchy Process pairwise comparison, define CTQs and summarize in a House of Quality.
• Conceptual Design: Apply conceptual design methodology: identify functions, identify and combine solutions in using a Morphological Box. Then define requirements and score solutions against them in a Pugh matrix.
• Solution Selection: Score solutions or options against a list of requirements. Define functional requirements (critical-to-quality requirements, CTQs), then evaluate solutions in a Pugh matrix.
• Robust Design: Apply robust design: Identify noise factors using a P-Diagram, Identify control factors and define actions necessary to optimize robustness (DFMEA prevention controls). Cross check noise factors versus the design verification plan (DFMEA detection controls).

Third Row: Projects

• Quality Function Deployment: Use Quality Function Deployment (QFD) to track how key, new, unique, and difficult customer requirements are being addressed and verified. You can choose between the 3 stage approach and the 4 stage approach.
• Project Management: Collection of common project management tools
• Strategy: Collection of common strategy development tools.
• Project Framework: Use a project framework to organize individual tools and methods.You can choose between DMAIC / Process, DMAIC / Quality, DMADV, and IDOV

Activate the Insert ribbon. The first command at the left is Add Tool. Click here and you can see the template catalog screen. Click on the icon of a method you want to add to your project.