Download or read book The Six Sigma Way Team Fieldbook, Chapter 13 - Power Tools for "Analyze" Understanding Problems written by Peter Pande and published by McGraw Hill Professional. This book was released on 2001-12-14 with total page 49 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here is a chapter from The Six Sigma Way Team Fieldbook, a highly practical reference that outlines both the methods that have made Six Sigma successful and the basic steps a team must follow in an improvement effort. Written by three veteran trainers of Six Sigma "Black Belts" and teams at GE, Sun Microsystems, and Sears, this hands-on guide helps you obtain the skills you need to identify a product, service, or process that needs improvement or redesign; gather data on the process and the rate of defects; find ways to improve quality up to a Six Sigma level--just 3.4 defects per million; and much more.