Lean 6 Sigma Black Belt & Green Belt
Lean Six Sigma is a method that relies on a collaborative team effort to improve performance by systematically removing waste and reducing variation.
Lean Six Sigma not only reduces process defects and waste but also provides a framework for overall organizational culture change. By introducing Lean Six Sigma...
Lean Manufacturing
Lean Manufacturing Philosophy is the Identification and elimination of waste from the value stream.Lean manufacturing is a dynamic and constantly improving process dependent on the understanding and involvement of all of the company's employees. Successful implementation requires that all employees be trained to identify and...
Kai-Zen
Kaizen is a philosophy of continual improvement, emphasizing employee participation, in which every process is continuously evaluated and improved in terms of time, resources, quality, and other aspects relevant to the processThere are two types of Kaizen name as Flow Kaizen which focus to value stream improvement and..
AIAG & VDA FMEA First Edition
The AIAG and VDA project objective was to provide consistent direction and guidance to all automotive suppliers.The AIAG and VDA FMEA includes: Best practices,Improved examples, Alignment to functional safety The project team also engaged with SAE J1739 Committee. There’s an upcoming...
APQP Second Edition
Advanced Product Quality Planning (APQP) is a structured method for defining and executing the actions necessary to ensure a product satisfies the customer. APQP is program and supplier-led and is required of all system, subsystem and component manufacturing locations. This includes both internal and external suppliers to ...
PPAP Forth Edition & VDA 2
Production Part Approval Process (PPAP) defines generic requirements for production part approval, includingproduction and bulk materials. The purpose of PPAP is to determine if all customer engineeringdesign record and specification equirements are properly understood by the supplier and that the process has the potential to produce...
MSA Forth Edition & VDA 5
The purpose of this MSA is to present guidelines for assessing the quality of a measurement system. Although the guidelines are general enough to be used for any measurement system, they are intended primarily for the measurement systems used in the industrial world. MSA handbook is not intended to be a compendium of analyses
SPC Second Edition
SPC is aimed at practitioners and managers beginning the application of statistical methods. It will also serve as a refresher on these basic methods for those who are now using more advanced techniques. Not all basic methods are included here. Coverage of other basic methods (such as check sheets, flowcharts, Pareto charts, cause and ...
Problem Solving Techniques
The purpose of problem solving is in the literature defined as:
… to understand and improve the system and ”
…Continuously strengthen the processes”.
So the question is if problem solving is the only method to fulfil this purpose?
9 Wastes
In the 1950’s, Taiichi Ohno was put in charge of the Toyota Motor Works. One day he pulled his Director from his office, took him to the shop floor, placed him in a certain location, and drew a circle around him with chalk. He instructed his director to remain in the circle and observe for four hours. At the end of four hours...
TRIZ
People usually face two kinds of problems: Those with generally known solutions and Those with unknown solutions. Those with known solutions can usually be solved by information found in books, technical journals, or other subject-matters. The other type of problem is one with no known solution. It is called an inventive...