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definition-Plan-Do-Study-Act-Cycle

Definition:


Alternative Names

Concept Number: *168
English Master: PDSA Cycle
Synonyms, Variations & Acronyms: PDSA-Cycle, PDSA

Detailing

It is a method for Changing a defined Work-Process to reflect measurably better Process. The Concept was developed by Walter Shewhart and taught by W. Edwards Deming [DELAVIGNE94, DEMING86, DEMING93].


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Deming


Type

Method

Domain: SPC & CPI


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Notes

The PDSA-Cycle involves the following:

• decide on an improvement and how to accomplish it. (Plan)
• carry out the improvement as planned (Do)
• gather data about costs and resulting improvements and Side-Effects, analyse the data and decide what it Means (Study, sometimes called “check”)
• adopt the change as is, or try again in a better way (Act)

This is enabled by Standardizing and stabilizing a target Process (meaning; “wherever you carry out the improvement”) so that the effects of any Process changes can be credibly observed.


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Plan [PDSA]
Do [PDSA]
Study [PDSA]
Act [PDSA]
Evolutionary-Project-Management
Statistical-Process-Control (SPC)


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This Concept entered by Diane O'Brien.

Created by system. Last Modification: Thursday 11 of July, 2019 19:24:24 CEST by Admin (Kai).