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Tools Index - By date of publication

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This is a list of the 111 Tools of the Trade articles by the year when they first appeared in Quality World, from the first article in 1995 to the last one in 2013.

	1995

1	Jan	About Quality Tools
2	Mar	Force-Field Diagram
3	May	Cause-Effect (Fishbone) Diagram
4	Jul	Affinity Diagram (KJ Analysis)
5	Sep	Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA)
6	Nov	Tree Diagram

	1996

7	Jan	Estimation
8	Mar	Pareto Chart 1
9	May	Pareto Chart 2
10	Jul	Voting
11	Sep	Risk calculations
12	Nov	Process Decision Program Chart (PDPC)

	1997

13	Jan	Gantt Chart
14	Mar	Post-up
15	May	Activity Diagram
16	Jul	Critical Path Method (CPM)
17	Sep	Swap-sort
18	Nov	Z-chart

	1998

19	Jan	IDEF0 - understanding it
20	Mar	IDEF0 - doing it
21	May	Voting
22	Jul	Decision tree 1
23	Sep	Decision tree 2 (decision strategies)
24	Nov	Why-Why Diagram

	1999

25	Jan	Value Analysis
26	Mar	How-How Diagram
27	May	Check Sheet
28	Jul	Capability Index
29	Sep	Morphological Analysis
30	Nov	Flow Process Chart

	2000

31	Jan	Mind Maps
32	Mar	Brainstorming
33	May	The CPS creativity framework
34	Jul	The Synectics approach
35	Sep	Extending creative sessions
36	Nov	Lateral thinking

	2001

37	Jan	TRIZ part 1
38	Mar	TRIZ part 2
39	May	TRIZ part 3
40	Jul	TRIZ part 4
41	Sep	Attribute analysis
42	Nov	Guided imagery

	2002
43	Jan	Five S's
44	Mar	Seiri
45	May	Seiton
46	Jul	Seiso
47	Sep	Seiketsu
48	Nov	Shitsuke

	2003
49	Jan	Power analysis
50	Mar	Cultural analysis
51	May	SIFT
52	Jul	Reframing
53	Sep	The Kubler-Ross cycle
54	Nov	The 3-stage Lewin model and push vs. pull

	2004

55	Jan	Importance-performance grid
56	Mar	Concept Screening
57	May	Four Fields Mapping
58	Jul	Kobayashi's 20 Keys
59	Sep	Basic Kanban
60	Nov	Value Stream Mapping

	2005

61	Jan	Advanced Kanban
62	Mar	Variation part 1: Distribution and the Central Limit Theorem
63	May	Variation part 2: Measuring centre and spread
64	Jul	Histograms part 1: creating them
65	Sep	Histograms part 2: Interpreting them
66	Nov	Scatter Diagram part 1: How to do it

	2006

67	Jan	Scatter Diagram (part 2: calculations)
68	Mar	Control Chart (part 1: interpreting them)
69	May	Control Chart (part 2: Types of Control Chart)
70	Jul	Control Chart (part 3: producing the chart)
71	Sep	Calculation detail for X-MR Control Charts
72	Nov	Calculation detail for X-bar/R Control Charts

	2007

73	Jan/Mar	Calculation detail for X-bar/S Control Charts (split in QW over 2 issues)
74	May/Jul	Calculation detail for defective (p) Control Charts (split in QW over 2 issues)
75	Sep/Nov	Calculation detail for defective (np) Control Charts (split in QW over 2 issues)
	2008
76	Jan	Know-what / Know-how Map
77	Mar	Knowledge Map
78	May	MOST Analysis
79	Jul	Importance-Urgency Mapping
80	Sep	The Investment-Risk Curve
81	Nov	The Customer Sacrifice gap
	2009
82	Jan	The Ansoff Matrix
83	Mar	The GE Portfolio Matrix
84	May	The Boston Matrix
85	Jul	Porter’s Five Forces
86	Sep	The Four Ps
87	Nov	The McKinsey 7S Model
	2010
88	Jan	RACI
89	Mar	MoSCoW analysis
90	May	Communities of Practice
91	Jul	Bodies of Knowledge
92	Sep	Seven Eyes
93	Nov	WorkOut
	2011
94	Jan	RAID Log
95	Mar	Basic Risk Analysis
96	May	Advanced Risk Analysis
97	Jul	Managing Assumptions
98	Sep	Managing Issues
99	Nov	Managing Decisions

	2012
100	Jan	100 Tips and Traps for Quality
101	Mar	Better Networking
102	May	The PINC Filter
103	Jul	Organizational Health Check
104	Sep	Planguage for Requirements
105	Nov	Quality Cost Audit

	2013
106	Jan	MoT Analysis
107	Mar	Assessment RAG Guideline and Template
108	May	Five Paragraph Order