Dr Kaoru Ishikawa is another well known Quality Guru. He is often referred to as the father of Japanese quality management. He is particularly renowned for his total quality viewpoint, company wide quality control and the Ishikawa diagram.

The Ishikawa diagram is aimed at analysing the potential causes of a manufacturing issue. With potentially many problems arising across the manufacturing value chain, quickly identifying and resolving issue is sometimes a challenge and is critical to improving and ensuring Quality.

DELMIA Apriso Issue Management provides a complete solution to capture, investigate, manage, analyze and resolve shop floor issues. Standardized workflows can be defined to manage issues and relevant context can be automatically tied to an issue to help identify root causes and take both corrective and preventative actions (CAPA).

Combine the simple, powerful technique of Ishikawa's cause & effect diagram with the efficient and systematic capabilities of DELMIA Apriso Issue Management to enhance operational excellence across the enterprise.