Title: Employ different problem-solving techniques.
Course: Production Systems (13101-36) > Section: Analyzing Design

Employment of problem-solving techniques should include

- trial-and-error
- brainstorming
- best guess
- Kaizen
- go-look-see
- Six Sigma
- plan-do-check-act
- failure mode and effects analysis
- accidental discovery.

Employment of the techniques should include using the various techniques to discover a solution to the same problem and then determining the types of situations in which each method is the appropriate choice.

Process/Skill Questions:

- What is brainstorming?
- What kinds of problems does the trial-and-error approach best solve?
- What is accidental discovery as it relates to problem solving?
- What type of problem-solving strategies were employed before modern production?
- In what way have advances in technology aided problem-solving strategies?