Understanding present standards and customer requests from inside and outside of the company
Set improvement objectives and draw/implement best improvement methods
Implement improvement activities that take into consideration of optimal improvement strategies and plans, analysis data, and potential variables
Standardize and document the improved items and apply those improvements to other processes
Establish and implement the management plan, standardization/documentation, and apply them to other processes
Analyzing the cause and the basis of the phenomenon
Analyzing the cause and the basis, understanding the potential variables, and establishing improvement objectives for the phenomenon
Compare the status before/after the improvement and assess the achievement compared to the new goals and the improvement strategies