Quality Control & Lean Tools Blog
Purpose: The purpose of this procedure of machine maintenance is to explain and understand steps of attending machine for maintenance. Scope: To ensure plant and machinery list is available and updated as on date...
As per IATF 16949 standard, “Terms and definitions” is the third clause. Terms and definitions are that used in this standard in different clauses. So below are the main terms and definition with some...
A process is a set of inter related activities where we provide input and get output with value addition.There are three categories of processes as per IATF. These are as below: Management oriented process...
Quality Control: Quality control is a process employed to ensure a certain level of quality in a product. It may include whatever actions an industry takes to provide for the control and verification of...
What is DFA? DFA is defined as a process to design such that it can be assembled easily and at low cost. In DFA analysis is done on child parts and final product for...
What is DFM? Design for manufacturing (DFM) is to make a design which is easy to manufacture. Purpose of DFM is to make a better product at lower cost. Manufacturing engineering is the management...
What is FMEA? An FMEA can be described as a schematic group of activities to : Identify the potential failure modes for a product or process. Assess the risk (effects) associated with those failure....
What is Root Cause Analysis? Root Cause Analysis is an in-depth technique for identifying the most relevant, controllable and significant cause of a problem. If we take action on that cause then the problem...
What is OEE? The full form of OEE is overall equipment effectiveness. It is a term used for measuring productivity in the manufacturing process. It is to calculate the percentage of time that is...
The control chart is an online graph used to study how a process changes over time. The control chart was invented by Walter A. Shewhart. Guidelines for Control Chart: A control chart always has...
Cause and Effect Diagram A cause and effect diagram is a graphical tool to identify possible causes of a problem or effect. It is one of the basic tools of 7 QC Tools. The...