Protocol - Deming circle-Plan Do Check Act (PDCA)
Plan–do–check–act (PDCA), also known as the Deming circle, an iterative four-step management method used in business for the control and continuous improvement in processes and products It is the foundation of Total Quality Management and the Quality approach.
Category:
Quality methodologies
Last revision: Jun 21, 2016
Author(s):
W. Edwards Deming
Contact
Name: Giovanna L. Liguori
Address: Institute of Genetics and Biophysics Via Pietro Castellino, 111 Naples 80131 ITALY
Email: giovanna.liguori@igb.cnr.it
Figure legend:
Plan Do Check Act Cycle
Steps
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Plan: Identify the situation and the objective, identify solutions, draw up a plan of action
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Do: Define the actions in detail and implement them
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Check: monitor the actions, evaluate the results and compare them to the expected outcomes
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Act: standardize the solutions that have given good results, or repeat the process if the results are not consistent with the objective
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Quality validation:
Yes
Validation info
The methodology has been used to develop the project described in a peer-reviewed article.
Funded by: FaReBio
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