PDCA cycle eight steps:
1. Identify problems. Analyze the status quo and identify existing problems, including product (service) quality problems and problems in management.
2. Analyze the causes. Analyze the various factors affecting the problem, as far as possible, these factors are listed.
3. Determine the main cause. Identify the main factors affecting quality.
4. Develop measures. Develop measures to address the main factors affecting quality, propose improvement plans, and anticipate their effects.
5. Implementation plan. According to the established measures to implement the plan, that is, D - implementation stage.
6. Check the effect. According to the requirements of the measure plan, check and verify the results of the actual implementation to see whether the expected results.
7. Inclusion criteria. Summarize the results of the inspection, the success of the experience and failure of the lessons learned into the relevant standards, procedures, systems, consolidate the achievements already made.
8. Legacy issues. According to the results of the inspection of the cycle of unresolved issues, analyze the quality improvement of new problems caused by the transfer of them to the first step of the next PDCA cycle.
How to use:
1.P planning stage
Identify the existing problems, through the analysis of the development of improvement goals, to determine the specific measures and methods to achieve these goals.
2.D Execution Phase
Do what is required according to the developed plan in order to achieve the goal of quality improvement.
3.C check stage
Check against the requirements of the plan, check, verify the effectiveness of the implementation of the timely discovery of the experience and problems in the improvement process.
4.A processing stage
The success of the experience to be affirmed, the development of standards, procedures, systems, consolidate achievements and overcome shortcomings.
PDCA cycle concept:
PDCA cycle is the United States quality management expert Dr. Deming first proposed, so it is also known as Deming ring. The ideological basis and methodological basis of total quality management is the PDCA cycle. the meaning of the PDCA cycle is to divide quality management into four stages, namely, planning (plan), implementation (do), inspection (check), processing (action). In the quality management activities, the requirements of the work in accordance with the plan, plan implementation, check the implementation of the effect, and then the success of the standard into the unsuccessful to be left to the next cycle to solve the work method, which is the basic method of quality management, but also the general law of enterprise management work.
PDCA cycle limitations:
With more project management in the application of PDCA, in the process of applying the application of a lot of problems found, because PDCA does not contain the content of human creativity. He just let people how to improve the existing work, so this leads to inertia, accustomed to PDCA people are easy to follow the process work? Management system work, because there is no pressure for him to realize creativity. So, PDCA has some limitations in the actual project.