• 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