Cause and Effect diagram

With a cause-effect diagram, you are able to collect causes in a team. Possible causes are illustrated graphically and act as a possibility to detect root causes.

Influencing factors:

• human being
• material
• machine
• method
• measurement equipment
• contemporaries

Function:

The cause-effect diagram shows in a graphical way, which possible causes may influence an occurrence. It serves as root cause analysis after incidence of errors has been localised.

Advantages:

• fast results by group dynamics
• easily usable as sample

Disadvantages:

• interdependency is not is not considered
• weighting could be difficult