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Problem Solving Tools

Problem Solving Tools. Summer Training Industrial Engineering Department. Exploratory Tools. Pareto Analysis Fish Diagrams Gantt Chart PERT Chart Job / Worksite Analysis Guide. Pareto Analysis.

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Problem Solving Tools

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  1. Problem Solving Tools Summer Training Industrial Engineering Department

  2. Exploratory Tools • Pareto Analysis • Fish Diagrams • Gantt Chart • PERT Chart • Job / Worksite Analysis Guide

  3. Pareto Analysis • Items identified and ordered on common scale in decreasing frequency, creating a cumulative distribution • 80/20 Rule: 20% of the items account for 80% of the problems • Allows the company to concentrate resources on the jobs with the most problems

  4. Pareto Analysis • Example DiagramFigure 1

  5. Fish-bone Diagrams • Cause-and-effect diagrams • Identified problem or undesirable result is the “head” • Contributing factors are the “bones” • Typical categories include: Human, machine, methods, materials, environment, and administrative • Estimates associated probabilities

  6. Fish-bone Diagrams • Example DiagramFigure 2

  7. Gantt Chart • Used for planning of complex projects • Shows expected start and completion times, also duration of events • Similarly, major events can be broken into smaller sub-tasks • Shade the bars to show actual completion time

  8. Gantt Chart • Example DiagramFigure 3

  9. PERT Chart • Program Evaluation and Review Technique (PERT) is a planning and control tool • Also known as Network Diagram or Critical Path • Graphically portrays the optimum way to obtain a desired objective with respects to time • Optimistic, average, and pessimistic time estimates utilized

  10. PERT Chart • Example DiagramFigure 4

  11. Job/Worksite Analysis Guide • Perform a walkthrough observing the area, worker, task, environment, administrative constraints, etc… • Develop an overall perspective of the situation • Particularly useful in workstation redesign

  12. Job/Worksite Analysis Guide • Example GuideFigure 5

  13. Recording and Analysis Tools • Operation Process Chart • Flow Process Chart • Flow Diagram • Worker and Machine Process Charts • Gang Process Charts

  14. Operation Process Chart • Chronological sequence of all operations, inspections, time allowances, materials • Depicts entrance and exit of all components and sub-assemblies and products • Provides information on the number of employees required time for jobs and inspections

  15. Operation Process Chart • Example DiagramFigure 6

  16. Flow Process Chart • More detailed, fit for closer observation of smaller components or assemblies • Shows all moves (distances) and storage delays (times) for product movement in plant • Aids in the reduction of hidden costs, • Can be beneficial for plant layout suggestions

  17. Flow Process Chart • Example DiagramFigure 7

  18. Flow Diagram • Pictorial representation of the layout of the plant • Good supplement to the Flow Process Chart

  19. Flow Diagram • Example DiagramFigure 8

  20. Worker and Machine Process Charts • Used to study, analyze, and improve one workstation • Shows the time relationship between working cycle of the person and the operating cycle of the machine • Reveals idle time for both machines and workers • Establishes “TAKT” time

  21. Worker and Machine Process Charts • Example DiagramFigure 9

  22. Gang Process Chart • Example DiagramFigure 10

  23. Quantitative Tools • Synchronous Servicing • Random Servicing • Line Balancing

  24. Synchronous Servicing • Assigning more than one machine to an operator

  25. Random Servicing • Helps to determine the number of machines to assign to an operator when it is not known exactly when each machine needs to be serviced or for how long

  26. Line Balancing • Helps to determine the ideal number of workers to be assigned to a production line • Computer software is available to eliminate the calculations

  27. Questions & Comments

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