Process Tools Application Template

Process Tools Application Template

In your final project, you will decide on an opportunity for improvement, and then you will

work through the steps of PDCA (Plan, Do, Check, Act) to select the process that will

improve the opportunity.

For the Process Tools Application, you will have five sections. Please follow the below

format.

Section 1

Find a process to improve. Describe the process that your group has chosen to improve.

Section 2

Organize a team that knows the process. Describe who should be involved the quality

improvement process based on each individual’s role.

Section 3

Clarify the current knowledge of the process. To clarify the current process, a great tool to

use is a flow diagram. Create a flow diagram for the process utilizing tools such as

Microsoft® Word® and Power Point®.

Section 4

Understand causes of special variation. Based on the data that you have collected, describe

the reasons for the variation.

Section 5

Select the process improvement. Once you organize your data and reasons, you team can

describe what in the process is causing the problem, and how you propose to fix the

problem.