Manufacturing
Supplier Management
You expect to receive parts from your suppliers, on time and meeting all of your requirements. However, the challenge is finding the latest information, not only when the supplier expects to deliver, but what the latest requirements from your organization actually are.
Do these problems sound familiar?
- Finding the correct revision of a document is difficult, both during and after launch..
- I need to contact the supplier and do not have correct contact information.
Standards
Your organization has decided to become registered to a standard and you are involved in developing the supporting processes and documentation to meet the requirements of the standard.
Do these problems sound familiar?
Statistical Process Control
Statistical Process Control (SPC) is a method of monitoring a process during its operation in order to control the quality of the products while they are being produced—rather than relying on inspection to find problems after the fact. The value of SPC is that by monitoring the process you can identify and take action on special causes of variation and other non-normal processing conditions; therefore, bringing the process under statistical control and reducing variation.
SPC can help you with the following problems:
- Improve Product Quality – Identify the sources of variability, use SPC to analyze their impact, identify problems, and monitor the results.
- Reduce Scrap and Rework – Analyze trends of your process capabilities and take action to correct process problems before scrap is generated.
- Increase Manufacturing Yield – Increase the yield for your investment in materials and equipment by reducing the time spent on scrapped and rework parts.
- Meet Customer Requirements – TS 16949 standard specifically calls for evidence that your organization can use SPC for the monitoring and measurement of your process capabilities