Process Improvement
Presentation
OPS/571 Kimberly Geeter, Rosimar, Shanika, Tesha
Vetre, Sean Mayes
Instructor
June
9th,2014
Steven
Williams
Intro Six Sigma
DMAIC
Process
Goal: Eliminate
defects
Measure:
Determine how to
measure
Analyze:
Determine cause of
defects
Define :
Identify
customers
priorities
Improve: remove
causes of defects
Control:
Determine how to
maintain
improvements
New Process Design for Production
Old Process for
production of fans
New Process
development for
production of fans
Sub-assembles
Make-to-Stock
Imbalance level of
finished inventory
against level of
service to customer
Lean Manufacturing
will achieve higher
service levels of
inventory investment
Global Opportunities
Increase opportunities
Reduce Opportunities
Technology
Flexibility
of
operations
Factory
already in
Hangzhou,
China
Global
network &
distribution
centers
Labor
cost
Material
costs
Product
quality
Inventory &
maintenance
costs
The bottlenecks that may
occur in the new process
Bottlenecks Cont.
References
Jacobs, F. R., & Chase, R. B. (2011), pg. 161 Operations and
Supply Chain Management (13th ed.). New York, NY: McGrawHill Irwin.
https://ecampus.phoenix.edu/secure/aapd/CIST/VOP/Busi
ness/Riordan/docs/Operations/Riordan%20Inventory%20M
anagement.pdf