Check the quality of the data
Check that the values are complete and believable before anyone decides with them, and fix what was recorded wrong.
The task in figures
- Gives you back
- 0.8 h a monthper team; today it takes 0.8 to 1.8 h a month
- Elmira today
- Does it
- Frequency
- Monthly
- Who does it today
- Analyst, Engineer
- Version
- Elmira Junior
What hurts today.
A typo reaches the traffic light and the meeting, and someone decides with it.
The months without a figure are noticed late, when nobody remembers the number anymore.
Fixing it in the spreadsheet erases the old value, and nobody knows what changed.
A figure recorded wrong (a misplaced decimal point, a repeated month, a figure that never came) ends up in the traffic light and in the meeting, and someone decides with it. So before the month closes, the analyst checks the indicators one by one: looks for the periods without a value and the values that do not fit their history, finds out who recorded them, asks and fixes. It is detective work, and there is rarely time to do it for all of them.
Done today with
- Expert
- Spreadsheet
- Email and chat
Each step, today and with Elmira.
Ask Elmira what is missing or odd: she shows you the periods without a value, the odd values and who recorded each one, and fixes the one you tell her without losing the history. When a period ends without a value, Obeyaka tells the team leader on its own.
| Step | Today | With Elmira |
|---|---|---|
| Find the periods without a value | Spreadsheet10 min – 20 min | Automatic |
| Find the values that do not fit their history | Spreadsheet, Expert20 min – 45 min | |
| See who recorded each one and what was corrected | Spreadsheet, Email and chat15 min – 30 min | |
| Whoever measured it confirms the right value | Email and chat | Your call |
| Fix it without losing the history | Spreadsheet5 min – 15 min |
The conversation
- Matías, continuous improvement analyst
Elmira, is anything odd in Quality’s indicators for September?
Two things. “Customer complaints” has no value for September. And “Scrap rate” shows 32 for September, when from June to August it stayed between 2.9 and 3.4: it looks like a misplaced decimal point. Pedro recorded it on October 2.
- Matías, continuous improvement analyst
Pedro confirmed it was 3.2. Please fix it.
I did this:
Corrected “Scrap rate” for September 2026: from 32 to 3.2.
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More cases of indicators and measurement
- Answer how an indicator is doingEvery question interrupts whatever the analyst was doing.
- Collect indicator dataThe figure arrives late, or never, and the meeting starts without it.
- Flag deviations in timeWhen things get busy nobody checks, and the deviation shows up at the monthly meeting.