Which 4M or 6M to use on a Fishbone | common Ishikawa categories explained

Those 4, 6 or even more main 'bones' in a #fishbone diagram show the categories that you use as the framework for your brainstorm, so they're an important part of how you steer that idea generation process. It's therefore important to choose these categories purposefully.
Most instances where you use the #Ishikawa diagram, it needs to broaden the scope (i.e. explore more possible problem causes; identify all important items to stabilize a process, ...). This works best when you use one of the common systems that covers the whole spectre of manufacturing, services or strategy. This video goes over the 4M of manufacturing (and a bit of 5M, 6M and even 8M), the 4S of services and a bit of info on the 8P of strategy/marketing.

[hechanova]

We did a variation reduction kaizen in our plant and these videos helped add more structure and more pointers on that 5 day event. What you're teaching helped our event successful!!!

[odhoward]

This is a great video. I'm a quality engineer and this is very helpful.

[joebishman]

Thanks. This video is very informative.

[dirkkuster]

Thanks for the video, very clear and helpful.

[anthony]

Hi Tom, great video..can I ask, is it possible to use a fishbone diagram for assessing a problem "why did we get a batch manufacturing record error on the document" and if possible which categories would be most suitable??