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without it becoming a six sigma project report. It too is a sequential pro-
cedure requiring the previous step to be completed before moving on to
the next step. e advantages of 8-D and DMAIC are that they help you to
really address the problem and its causes rather than just paying lip ser-
vice to corrective action requests. ey facilitate the development of real
and eective corrective actions.
e other advantage is the completeness of the corrective action reports.
A good corrective action report serves as a record of not only how the root
causes were determined and eliminated, but also what was done to co