Quality Control

Tool

Pareto Charts

Pareto Charts
Purpose:
Prioritize problems.

How is it done?
Create a preliminary list of problem classifications.
Tally the occurrences in each problem classification.
Arrange each classification in order from highest to
lowest
Construct the bar chart

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Pareto Chart Defined
Pareto charts are used to identify and prioritize
problems to be solved.
They are actually histograms aided by the 80/20
rule adapted by Joseph Juran.
Remember the 80/20 rule states that approximately 80%
of the problems are created by approximately 20% of the
causes.

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An Example of How a Pareto Chart Can Be Used
Pareto Charts are used when products are suffering from
different defects but the defects are occurring at a
different frequency, or only a few account for most of the
defects present, or different defects incur different costs.
What we see from that is a product line may experience a
range of defects.
The manufacturer could concentrate on reducing the
defects which make up a bigger percentage of all the
defects or focus on eliminating the defect that causes
monetary loss.

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120

100

Quantity

80

60

40

20

0
Defects

Dent

Scratch

Hole

Others

Crack

Stain

Gap

104

42

20

14

10

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Benefits:

Pareto analysis helps graphically display results so the significant

few problems emerge from the general background

It tells you what to work on first

Pareto Charts Weighted Pareto

Weighted Pareto charts use the quantity of defects multiplied by

their cost to determine the order.
900
800
700
600
Weighted Cost

Weighted
Defect Total
Cost
cost
Gap
4
200
800
Dent
104
2
208
Hole
20
5
100
Crack
10
8
80
Scratch
42
1
42
Others
14
1
14
Stain
6
1
6

500
400
300
200
100
0

Weighted cost

Gap

Dent

Hole

Crack

Scratch

Others

Stain

800

208

100

80

42

14