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
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