What is a Cause and Effect Diagram? What can it do for you?

Professor Kaoru Ishikawa created Cause and Effect Analysis in the1960s. The technique uses a diagram-based approach for thinking through all of the possiblecauses of a problem. This helps you to carry out a thorough analysis of the situation. There are four steps to using the tool. Identify the problem.

The cause and effect (fishbone) diagram will help you visually display the many potential causes for a problem or effect. Don't be fooled by tool rules

Cause and Effect diagram is a diagramatic approach for thinking through all possible causes of a problem.

It can help me to carry out a thorough analysis of a given problem situation.

it is a method that established in 1960s to find out any defect in the system by detailing the subsystem deficiacy. Usually it applied to investigate for equpments incidents as the manufacture industry is growing rapidely during that years. Thus in my opinion, It is not suitable to investigate incidents that involving human factor as the human factor study itself just starting on 1970s

It's the fishbone diagram as an approach for thinking through all of the possible causes of a problem before it happens then preventions.