Page 3 Classroom Clippings is a special insert in The Maine Fertilizer, the newspaper for the Maine Adult Education System, published by the Center for Adult Learning and Literacy at the University of Maine , College of Education and Human Development . This supposition was further developed by business and industry leaders who found that most of the quality problems were confined to a samll number of machines or workers.
Quality improvement involves tackling one issue at a time.
After all, there is rarely just one cause related to a problem. Bar charts, called Pareto charts, are used to decide what steps need to be taken for quality improvement. A Pareto chart is simply a bar chart that sorts defects, errors, issues, in decreasing order. In doing so, it is clear which problem is causing the greatest difficulty. Pareto charts can be used to see whether strategies used to correct problems have been effective.