Working with KT

Analytic Trouble Shooting^®

Staying competitive in today’s manufacturing world means gaining maximum benefit from every available asset, including your workforce. Analytic Trouble Shooting (ATS^SM) is the KT approach to harnessing the collective knowledge and experience of people working in a production environment and aligning it under a common language and approach to solving problems.

Used globally in diverse cultures and industries, ATS integrates quality and productivity efforts, and provides a logical framework for statistical process control, Lean manufacturing, Six Sigma, total productive maintenance, self-managed work teams and other programs. ATS provides analysis, training, and performance support for varying levels of employees within the business. Not tied to a specific machine or process, this flexible, critical thinking-based tool offers enduring value.

KT works with clients to address their plant environment—its culture, systems, work procedures, and human resources—identifying obstacles as well as opportunities that promote effective problem solving and decision making. This approach often leads to restructuring how people, machines, production processes, and management systems perform and interact. By creating an environment of sustainable improvement, productivity and quality goals are easier to reach and sustain.

ATS revolves around two types of activities: Finding Cause and Taking Action. Finding Cause includes prioritizing problems, describing them in detail, and identifying and testing possible causes. Taking Action focuses on selecting the best fix and then thinking beyond the fix to avoid future problems.

Learn more about the training component of ATS and about developing internal experts who can facilitate and teach our methods within their organization.