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We keep having the same defect come back after we fix it. Why does this keep happening?
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That's a classic sign of containment being mistaken for countermeasure. You're fixing the symptom at the point of detection — not the cause at the point of origin.

The defect is being produced somewhere upstream. The question to ask at the gemba is: where is the condition that allows this to happen at all?
How do I find that upstream cause?
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Start with a fishbone diagram and walk the process backwards from the defect. Ask why at each step until you hit a system condition — a gap in standard work, a missing check, an untrained hand-off…
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