Archive for October, 2016
October 28, 2016
There are two types of Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA). One is referred to as PFMEA or a Process-FMEA and that is the one we will focus on here. The other is a DFMEA or Design-FMEA which is very familiar to the PFMEA but won’t be discussed in this blog. The situation is that […]
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October 10, 2016
First of all a Value Stream is a way of looking at your company’s ability to deliver, from start to finish, a product or service. For instance, let’s say that you are manufacturing and selling a stapler. An example Value Stream for a stapler could start with a customer, let’s say the customer is a […]
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October 3, 2016
In the world of Statistical Process Control there are two things you know for certain. First is that every manufacturing process that has machinery involved is constantly degrading. Therefore, the quality product produced is losing a little bit of quality every day. Secondarily the charting test (examples are WECo and Nelson rules) that is performed […]
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