When India-based Tata Group adopted an aggressive strategy to become a global business leader in the 1990s, one of the key recognitions it made was that to thrive, it needed to meet global standards for business excellence. That concern for …
Kanban is a system arrangement for lean manufacturing. The system receipts its name from the cards that trail production within a factory. It controls the supply chain to understand cost savings by the idea of the just-in-time (JIT) inventory control …
Machines help with all production processes. So organizations rely on machines for closely everything production-related. Organizations don’t like machines, equipment, or their devices breaking down. This concern is for the reason that breakdowns cause production disturbance. To eliminate this disturbance, …
What is process improvement? Process improvement involves the business practice of identifying & analyzing the improving existing business processes to optimize performance, meet best practice standards or simply improve the quality and the user experience for customers and end-users. Process …
The recent advancements in technology, it has now become possible to implement Six Sigma concepts and the methodologies even in non-engineering functional departments such as sales and marketing. Implementing Six Sigma, businesses can now streamline their sales and marketing efforts …
Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) Overall Equipment Effectiveness is the score comprising of Availability of the machine, Performance of the machine, and Quality of the production process. OEE= Availability x Performance x Quality The ideal OEE production score is 100% World-class …
You may argue that many of these points are straightforward, self-evident and simply common sense. The good news is they are. The not-so-good news is that in a world where we’re often expected to deliver multiple incremental improvement projects and …
Many statistical technicians, particularly six sigma professionals, face this kind of problem. Not only is it difficult to explain their job to family and friends. But it’s also challenging to explain to co-workers. The problem is, we lack the understanding …
Kaizen spirit has been present in operations, advancements and transformations under different names counting Good-Change, Workout, and Blitz. However, regardless of what it is called, it represents a critical phase in the Total Quality Management field and is utilized in …
Handling the Failure List out what ways the failure is a failure. Then keep that list and make another list of what the investigation has shown you. When I do this, I very frequently find that my “lessons learned” list …