{"id":737,"date":"2016-05-20T09:42:09","date_gmt":"2016-05-20T15:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/?p=737"},"modified":"2022-08-23T15:17:10","modified_gmt":"2022-08-23T21:17:10","slug":"asq-2016-quality-tool-usage-in-poster-presentations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/asq-2016-quality-tool-usage-in-poster-presentations\/","title":{"rendered":"ASQ 2016 Quality Tool Usage in Poster Presentations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At this years American Society for Quality World Conference in Milwaukee, winning teams improvement projects were displayed in posters in the exhibit hall. As I did at IHI in December, I took a stroke tally of the types of tools used. Like IHI, the vast majority of tools were line and bar charts, which are the dumbest charts on the planet. Only a few teams out of 36 used control charts, Pareto charts, histograms or fishbones.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1347\" src=\"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/ASQ-2016-quality-tool-usage.jpg\" alt=\"asq 2016 quality tool usage\" width=\"579\" height=\"469\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/ASQ-2016-quality-tool-usage.jpg 579w, https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/ASQ-2016-quality-tool-usage-300x243.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/ASQ-2016-quality-tool-usage-115x93.jpg 115w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 579px) 100vw, 579px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Shouldn&#8217;t quality improvement stories should be told with tools of quality, not simple line and bar charts? Shouldn&#8217;t we be using charts that went to college and took statistics?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At this years American Society for Quality World Conference in Milwaukee, winning teams improvement projects were displayed in posters in the exhibit hall. As I did at IHI in December, I took a stroke tally of the types of tools used. Like IHI, the vast majority of tools were line and bar charts, which are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[163,4,5,6,7],"tags":[199,158],"class_list":["post-737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-healthcare","category-manufacturing","category-qi-macros","category-service","category-six-sigma","tag-asq","tag-quality-tools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=737"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5976,"href":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737\/revisions\/5976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}