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Chinese Journal of Management Science ›› 2023, Vol. 31 ›› Issue (10): 254-265.doi: 10.16381/j.cnki.issn1003-207x.2020.2414

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A Causal Network Construction Method Based on Chinese Quality Problem Solving Data

Yu-bin WANG1,Yan-zhong DANG2(),Zhao-guang XU2   

  1. 1.School of Economics and Management, North University of China, Taiyuan 030051, China
    2.School of Economics and Management, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116024, China
  • Received:2020-12-21 Revised:2021-11-16 Online:2023-10-15 Published:2023-11-03
  • Contact: Yan-zhong DANG E-mail:yzhdang@dlut.edu.cn

Abstract:

With the development of economy and technology, people's living standards continue to improve, consumers have higher requirements for the quality and the variety of products. Correspondingly, the quality problems become more and more complicated to solve. Cause analysis is the key to quality problem-solving. However, the causal relationship is usually complex and dynamic. It is challenging to analyze the cause of the problem in-depth only by personal experience. Front-line staffs record the quality problem-solving process, forming the Quality Problem Solving Data (QPS Data) which contains a large amount of knowledge accompanied by the causality of quality problems. However, non-standard records result in non-standard descriptive terms and the mixed causal structure of data. The characteristics mentioned above make it is difficult to apply directly since the data containing much empirical causal knowledge. In order to help improve the effectiveness of cause analysis by utilizing the causal knowledge contained in QPS Data, firstly, relying on the analysis of the characteristics of QPS Data, a bottom-up method is propased to extract domain vocabulary layer by layer from QPS Data, which solves the problem of descriptive terms being non-standardized. Secondly, by analyzing the causal syntactic pattern, a causal relation extraction method based on rule matching is proposed to solve the problem of mixed causal structures. Then, a causal network is constructed to realize the reuse of causal knowledge in QPS Data. Finally, using the quality problem-solving data recorded by an automobile manufacturing enterprise in the process of body-in-white stamping production, a causal network with practical application significance is constructed. And the validity, rationality, and scientificity of the proposed methods are verified. This research can provide extensive and comprehensive support for front-line staff to analyze the cause of the quality problem, help enterprises improve the efficiency of quality problem-solving, and provide enterprises with knowledge management methods for reference. Meanwhile, it contributes to the theories and methods of quality management and knowledge management.

Key words: quality management, quality problem solving data, causal analysis, causal network, automobile manufacturing

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