DocumentCode :
3529070
Title :
Quality measurement in lean manufacturing
Author :
Bon, Abdul Talib ; Rahman, Norhayati Abdul
Author_Institution :
Fac. of Technol. Manage., Univ. Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia, Malaysia
fYear :
2009
fDate :
23-25 Nov. 2009
Firstpage :
1
Lastpage :
7
Abstract :
Nowadays, many of the industrial companies use the most popular programs Lean Six Sigma in their production, management, and others especially in manufacturing company. Lean Six Sigma is an organizational philosophy of applying relentless efforts to drive waste out of the organization at every level and improve product quality to the level of only 3.4 defects per million opportunities and both lean manufacturing and six sigma work towards meeting customer´s needs by delivering products without defects. This is an effective approach to determine where improvement necessary. This paper is about evaluating the effectiveness of using the Lean Six Sigma in manufacturing industries and researcher are focus to only one company, beside improve productivity and optimize quality. Data of the implementation were compared using the control chart and the level of effectiveness can be measured either it is effective or not in reducing the defects in manufacturing industry. This study resulting the effective of Lean Six Sigma in manufacturing industry and show how it works by the implementation and improvement.
Keywords :
lean production; productivity; quality control; six sigma (quality); Lean Six Sigma; customer needs; industrial companies; lean manufacturing; manufacturing company; organizational philosophy; product defect; product quality improvement; productivity; quality measurement; quality optimization; Cost function; Gain measurement; Lean production; Manufacturing industries; Optimization methods; Productivity; Quality management; Six sigma; Technology management; Time measurement; Lean Six Sigma; improve productivity; lean manufacturing; manufacturing industry; optimize quality;
fLanguage :
English
Publisher :
ieee
Conference_Titel :
Instrumentation, Communications, Information Technology, and Biomedical Engineering (ICICI-BME), 2009 International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Bandung
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-4999-6
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-5000-8
Type :
conf
DOI :
10.1109/ICICI-BME.2009.5417305
Filename :
5417305
Link To Document :
بازگشت