Identify the root causes:

First, read the document, "Determining Influencing Factors" for background information and to help orient your efforts. Start with the "flight time fishbone diagram DRONE" document to brainstorm possible factors that could influence flight time. Please note that typical brainstorm efforts and completing a fishbone diagram can take a lot time, if the issue is complex. Your time for this activity will be limited to about 30 minutes, or less. Try to identify primary and some secondary factors. Keep in mind that this effort should be used to identify probable or possible influential factors. It does not verify the factors as causes.

Measurement Materials Methods inconsistent ight record Low weight paper (blue) Heavy paper (white) Vertica ca i-ration Paper clips Drone construction process Materials acquisition Prototype Flight time is not at least 2.500 temperature _ _ _ _ seconds humidity Unskilled engineers Inaccurate clocks Broken drones Poor tools for engineers Environment Manpower Machines Analyze Phase: Determining Inuencing Factors of Performance Currently, only Prototype 1 is in production, and the effects of deviating from these factors are unknown. However, the known effects ofthe factors on the ight time are available. The control chart from the ight readiness inspectors from the Dene phase shows that the mean of these factors combined is 2.320 s and the standard deviation {R-barde] is 0.051 s. This poses an interesting problem, in that no baselines can be developed on other factors, since there are no other models in production to measure. As a result, no information on other factors exists within ShopAnd-Drop.com [5&0]. Typically, this would be the end of the Analyze phase unless the team and the management decided to develop work that would help identify the appropriate factors. However, in this case, there is another option. Given that 5&D is a member ofthe Retail Industry Leaders Association {RILA.orgj, there are opportunities to exchange information with other companies. 5&D is in an interesting position in that the Company's culture is somewhat unstable due to internal power struggles, which can open doors for hostile takeovers, in which the RILA cannot offer any assistance with 5&D's struggle, as it is an internal political issue within 58: D, not a broader external industry issue. Yet, the RILA is not a consulting group either. While advocacy for retail, distribution, and supply chain businesses is a major aim and is the most publicized oftheir functions, working to further best practices to augment performance of member companies is one of their best efforts to ensure that monopolistic and unethical activities by aggressive companies and government overreach are kept to a minimum, as customer service is a major goal ofthe RILA. One of the ways that this goal is fostered is through the sharing and development of new technologies for productivity purposes. These are then exploited by helping to improve processes for all of the members to promote international commerce and trade and to further stabilize and stimulate economies. The project Champion consulted with the VP of SCM to appeal to the RILA's Leaders Council for information regarding the technologies other members used in construction of their drones. Seven companies agreed to share this information, while others saw that this was in an effort to take proprietary practices and declined to reveal information. The seven companies each had a different version of the drone, and each drone is briefly profiled and the results oftheir ight tests, as given by the company in question, are shown below. A few words of caution should be noted here. First, no information on interactions can be made, given that the drones are independent units. Furthermore, the information is taken to be reasonable, as other companies volunteered to give this information to 5&D. However, the testing methods ofthese other companies, while similar, have some differences. And, any ltering or tampering that the government or other entities wished to do with the information is unknown to 5&D scientists and engineers. The team should seek out these data and make reasoned conclusions about what the influential factors are and answerthe following questions: 1. Brainstorm possible factors yourteam thinks can influence flight time. A fishbone diagram for this activity is available. 2. How will you get the data you need to justify your hypothesized factors? [Hint: ash drive] 3. What conclusion can be justied about each hypothesized factor from the data you receive? Summarize with a list of factors from this data assessment. 4. What can you propose as a plan to verify whether a factor is influential {a root cause of ight time]