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Barbara Ciecińska Rzeszow University of Technology, Rzeszow, Poland

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*Identification of Defects Causes: Ishikawa Diagram and 5 Whys in Theoretical and Practical… DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.113990*

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