Does your preferred Process Improvement method include an explicit step to Restore Basic Conditions? If not, you're probably hurting the effectiveness of your improvement efforts.
When you've been working on your Performance Excellence for some time and have a very stable system of Maintaining your Process Conditions, DMAIC is a great method for further Process Improvement. But if you're more like 80-90% of industry, and you can't really be sure that your Machine, Material, Method and Manpower standards might not always be as standard as you'd like - please make checking these Basic Conditions a full step in any Problem Solving or Process Improvement effort.
In fact, you may find that many of your improvement projects will yield all the results you expected just from restoring 4M conditions. Their task will then be focused on making sure those conditions are maintained in the future, but they won't need to invest much time and effort into changing things deeply in your processes.
Fix your foundation before you install a second bathroom 😉
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00:00 Importance of Basic Conditions
02:19 Problem Solving Steps
03:00 Process Knowledge and Known Conditions
05:27 Process Improvement and Performance Levels
06:46 Including a Restoration Step
09:01 Practical Advice and Conclusion
