Ideas for inspection scheduling

[antsals]

Evening all,
I'm after a little help.
I'm currently support an inspection area that as I could describe being a "jobbing" shop. The company works for an array of business sectors all with there own level of quality standard.
The company has a number of dedicated inspectors some with different qualifications etc. because of the business sectors the inspection activities range from material certification and cast number checks, dimensional checks of raw materials, in-house machined items, sub-con machined items, fabrications visual, MPI / Dye-pen, painted items / surface treatments.

Everyday more materials / items are delivered and everything is wanted ASAP.

What I'm after is a few visual ways (lean thinking) of displaying what's in the building and what needs inspection. I've put down the challenge for a 2 day turnaround for any items, wether it's an item manufactured in-house or material delivered into the building.

At the moment all the delivery notes are stacked up in trays and it doesn't give a good view of where we are upto.....

I'm looking for a few ideas to get some changes in place.

Cheers,
Ant

 

[rodofgod]

Hi! you really need to establish a standard that your company is adequate to comply to and meet audit requirements. In europe, this is usually ISO 9001.

 

[HGMorgan]

If you don't have one, you may what to look at a shop control system. We use E2 Shop Tech software and it can send notifications to pertinent parties for needed process activities. I am not a salesperson, that's just what we use. There are other software systems out there. ISO9001 or any certified QMS really needs some type of shop control software to help support the processes.

Harold G. Morgan
CATIA, QA, CNC & CMM Programmer

 

[MintJulep]

Seems like you have a few unstated requirements to address as well.

ASAP is not a measurable deadline. The first thing you need to do is start replying to ASAP request with "There are 74 items in line ahead of your request. Therefore the soonest that it will be possible for us to look at your stuff is next week on Thursday afternoon."

Next, someone at a sufficiently high level of management needs to be made responsible for arbitrating the priority of items at the company level, not the individual project level.

Then you need a way to match inspection requirements for each part or batch to the inspection capabilities of individual inspectors.

Once you get that in place, I think Trello might work for you.

https://trello.com/

 

[geesamand]

The first phase is to establish visibility. If the list is short (2 dozen or less) and your internal customers drop by your area, then a visual control board is the winner. Otherwise you'll want to put together an electronic visual control board. This will establish what's going on, and the priorities at all times.

Then you can collect data, assess priorities, find optimizations.

David