Statistical quality control measurement on furniture manufacturer

Author

Laurence ; Utama, Christine Puteri ; Hanafi, Jessica

Author_Institution

Dept. of Ind. Eng., Univ. of Pelita Harapan, Lippo Karawaci, Indonesia

fYear

2011

fDate

6-9 Dec. 2011

Firstpage

420

Lastpage

423

Abstract

A research on the application of statistical quality control technique was conducted in a furniture manufacturing company. This company produces a variety of wooden furniture, such as tables and chairs, to cater local and overseas customers. Based on initial observation, it was found that the product with the highest percentage of defects is the folding chairs. Statistical quality control technique was applied to ensure that the products meet the standard specified. This research identified five major defects based on the pareto rules. Those defects are pin holes (26.03%), heart wood (22.5%), breakage (17.57%), cracks (17.57%) and discoloration (8.7%). The DPMO for the folding chair production is 5,135.77 and the daily unreworkable cost for one of the components of the chair is IDR 1,961,630.

Keywords

Pareto optimisation; furniture industry; quality control; folding chair production; furniture manufacturing company; heart wood; pareto rules; pin hole defect; statistical quality control measurement; wooden furniture; Analysis of variance; Companies; Control charts; Legged locomotion; Quality control; Six sigma; Folding chair; quality control;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management (IEEM), 2011 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Singapore

ISSN

2157-3611

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-0740-7

Electronic_ISBN

2157-3611

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IEEM.2011.6117951

Filename

6117951