The document provides information on cause and effect analysis tools including fishbone diagrams and cause and effect matrices. It defines cause and effect relationships and explains how to construct a fishbone diagram by identifying a problem or desired improvement, determining major cause categories, brainstorming specific causes, and analyzing the diagram. It also describes how to construct a cause and effect matrix by listing key outputs and inputs, ranking output importance, relating inputs to outputs, and calculating totals to identify key inputs. The goal is to help users discover root causes of problems and determine which process inputs most affect important customer requirements.