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Defects Reduction in Manufacturing of Automobile Piston Ring Using Six Sigma

Six Sigma is one of the best emerging approaches for quality assurance and management in automobile parts manufacturing. In this research, Quality Management tools such as COPQ analysis, Data Analysis, Pareto charts, Cause and Effect diagrams, Process Capability Study, Failure Mode Effects Analysis...

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Main Authors: S. Suresh, A. L. Moe, A. B. Abu
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Published: 2015 Engineering and Technology Publishing 2015
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six sigma
cost of poor quality
piston rings
pilot batch
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spelling my.unikl.ir-114292015-10-26T01:06:20Z Defects Reduction in Manufacturing of Automobile Piston Ring Using Six Sigma S. Suresh A. L. Moe A. B. Abu six sigma cost of poor quality piston rings pilot batch Six Sigma is one of the best emerging approaches for quality assurance and management in automobile parts manufacturing. In this research, Quality Management tools such as COPQ analysis, Data Analysis, Pareto charts, Cause and Effect diagrams, Process Capability Study, Failure Mode Effects Analysis (FMEA), Design of Experiments (DOE), Visual and Control Charts etc. are used in defining the problems in order to find the root causes for the problem and carrying out experiments in order to suggest improvements, through which the company could bring in Quality and Stability in their process. Two main reasons that strongly effect the product rejections are discovered. The new improved process is validated through a Pilot batch run. Using the six sigma method, the rejection percentage is reduced by 13.2% from the existing 38.1% of rejection. Further improvement in the rejection is expected in the long run after the continuous implementation of all the solutions. 2015-10-26T00:39:44Z 2015-10-26T00:39:44Z 2014 http://localhost/xmlui/handle/123456789/11429 2015 Engineering and Technology Publishing
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topic six sigma
cost of poor quality
piston rings
pilot batch
spellingShingle six sigma
cost of poor quality
piston rings
pilot batch
S. Suresh
A. L. Moe
A. B. Abu
Defects Reduction in Manufacturing of Automobile Piston Ring Using Six Sigma
description Six Sigma is one of the best emerging approaches for quality assurance and management in automobile parts manufacturing. In this research, Quality Management tools such as COPQ analysis, Data Analysis, Pareto charts, Cause and Effect diagrams, Process Capability Study, Failure Mode Effects Analysis (FMEA), Design of Experiments (DOE), Visual and Control Charts etc. are used in defining the problems in order to find the root causes for the problem and carrying out experiments in order to suggest improvements, through which the company could bring in Quality and Stability in their process. Two main reasons that strongly effect the product rejections are discovered. The new improved process is validated through a Pilot batch run. Using the six sigma method, the rejection percentage is reduced by 13.2% from the existing 38.1% of rejection. Further improvement in the rejection is expected in the long run after the continuous implementation of all the solutions.
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author S. Suresh
A. L. Moe
A. B. Abu
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A. L. Moe
A. B. Abu
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title Defects Reduction in Manufacturing of Automobile Piston Ring Using Six Sigma
title_short Defects Reduction in Manufacturing of Automobile Piston Ring Using Six Sigma
title_full Defects Reduction in Manufacturing of Automobile Piston Ring Using Six Sigma
title_fullStr Defects Reduction in Manufacturing of Automobile Piston Ring Using Six Sigma
title_full_unstemmed Defects Reduction in Manufacturing of Automobile Piston Ring Using Six Sigma
title_sort defects reduction in manufacturing of automobile piston ring using six sigma
publisher 2015 Engineering and Technology Publishing
publishDate 2015
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