🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Welcome 🇮🇹 Benvenuti 🇦🇺 G’Day

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🖋️ Latest Post

The Ishikawa (Fishbone) Diagram

August 22, 2026

The Ishikawa, or Fishbone diagram, is one of the 7 basic tools of quality. It’s a useful conceptual tool for structuring ideation in the service of problem solving. In this post I introduce my method for implementing the tool in root cause analysis, and give 2 applied examples of where I’ve used it to help solve real-world problems.

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Other recent posts:

• Gauge Repeatability and Reproducibility

• Nonlinear Feedback Control in 3 Easy Steps

• Quantifying Quality

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🖥️ Find Me Online

• Coursera: My guest lectures for the Technical University of Munich:
  • Lean Production Fundamentals
  • Advanced Lean Production & Continuous Improvement
• Github: Explore my coding projects and repositories.
• LinkedIn: For professional connections.
• YouTube: For robot videos, lectures, and more.

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⌨️ Coding Projects

Here are some of my main projects:

• tufteplotlib: A Python library for generating beautiful, minimalist graphs in the style of Edward Tufte.
• RobotLibrary: My C++ library for robot motion control.
• ROS2 packages implementing RobotLibrary for real-time robot control:
  • serial_link_interfaces
  • serial_link_action_server
  • serial_link_action_client
• Simple QP Solver: A light-weight convex optimisation algorithm.
• ergoCub-bimanual: Two-handed grasping control of a humanoid robot using YARP.

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🤝 Current Collaborations

• The Butcher’s Pantry: A business improvement initiative to boost sales & revenue.
• Crest Robotics: Helping solve force feedback control for teleoperated robots.
• Robotic hip replacement surgery at the University of Technology Sydney.