Lean Six Sigma, Catia, & Pro Engineer 8

[mfgenggear]

Has any one has recently trained in the above.
or has experience that has words of wisdom.

I need to get up to date. Seems it's the buzz word on on posted jobs.

Thanks

Mfgenggear

 

[GregLocock]

Examples I see on the production line are building seats to order instead of stockpiling them, likewise wheel and tire combinations.

Now there is an argument that all you've done is pushed your inventory back onto the supplier, but it doesn't have to be that way.



Cheers

Greg Locock


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[mfgenggear]

Greg

Thanks for the reply ,
I am the supplier at this point. LOL

My company makes parts to contract.

The Goal OK will do

Take Care

Mfgenggear

 

[lacajun]

I loved statistical process control, when I took it at the graduate level. I used it to demonstrate to management that, while we were good, we still had slop in the processes to eliminate and that caused rejects.

I've used it to highlight poor control strategies because we, indeed, were not in control. We just thought we were.

I learned this stuff before 6S came along and management wanted to apply it to human behavior. Good luck with that application.

6S became a black hole in some companies because they didn't have the right resources working on the projects. They were engineers but engineers lacking experience and had no knowledge of how to measure and control various process parameters. Consequently, the various Belts sucked large sums of money and produced no measurable results let alone ROI.

Then managers began to use 6S as a weapon to chastise people for poor performance. It's unfortunate that managers, some of them, look for ways to use good tools to threaten good people. They needed to look in the mirror for the real cause of a good many problems.

Pamela K. Quillin, P.E.
Quillin Engineering, LLC

 

[patprimmer]

I never did 6 Sigma that's a buzzword that has been introduced so late in my career that I missed it.

I have however been to many buzzword schools. They change with time but are very much the same things with new words attached, but sometimes you need to play the game. There is a danger of playing the game to serious. Look at the tool then decide how to sensibly apply it for real improvement rather than with religious fervour.

Way back when I studied statistical quality control one lesson was the real costs of a defect vs the cost of fixing the cause. It included but did not quantify intangibles if I recall correctly. Maybe I included that last bit myself over time.

Lean I understand it used to be called time and motion and inventory control and working capital to turnover ratio. Personally I also included a cost of lost business because of stock outs vs cost of extra working capital. I know on one very high cost item, it led me toward changing to airfreight to save costs. That was when the interest rates here where 18%.

Regards
Pat
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