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Traceability - curse or blessing? Logistic approach
Traceability is a basic requirement of any industry, in some cases traceability at the batch level is sufficient to meet the requirements, in others it must go in detail and demonstrate that a finished product was made according to the established process, using the materials and quantities established, produced by operators trained to perform those stages of the process, with the recording at the piece level of the date and time of execution of each transformation of the raw material into the...Read this article...
Santa Claus ... hoping to bring us the Dynamic Array
Santa Claus ... hoping to bring us the Dynamic ArrayCareful! This article is for Microsoft Excel-dependent users.Any Microsoft Excel-dependent user wants to be able to benefit from Microsoft's Dynamic Array promises by 2020. Don't you know about them?You had problems with the VLOOKUP function because they didn't even look at the data to the left of the column, you wanted to extract data from a column faster and sort it automatically, you wanted to generate a Data Validation for a much faster...Read this article...
IATF 16949:2016 vs. ISO 9001:2015
Want to access the automotive supplier market?If you are sure you want more projects with large volumes (but with relatively small profit margins and with a few more headaches), the solution is the proper implementation and management of a Quality Management System according to the IATF 16949: 2016 standard.The IATF standard 16949: 2016 is based on ISO 9001: 2015 and defines the requirements of a Quality Management System for the design and development, production and, if applicable, service of...Read this article...
MSA - Open session (Ploiesti)
The practical and interactive applications within the Effective Flux sessions were and are to the taste of all participants 😊.Right now, in Ploiesti, George's expertise is being felt at the Measurement Systems Analysis (MSA) course. At this type of course, participants from various fields (automotive, food, medical, textile, aeronautical) learn how to verify the effectiveness of the inspection.In the interactive part of the session, the application is made, the data is collected and then...Read this article...
APQP - Advanced Product Quality Planning
APQP (Advanced Product Quality Planning) is a standard designed to support the framing of the launch of a new product as well as the reduction of costs since the product definition phase.Increased product complexity, reduced implementation time and increased competition have a growing influence on the cooperation between car manufacturers and their supply chain. This manifests as intense interactions between the customer and the supplier throughout the product development process, which leads...
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Reverse FMEA (RFMEA)
Do you happen to receive complaints from customers, maybe even repeat ones, even though you have implemented P-FMEA risk analysis for production processes? The cause could be given by the purely theoretical realization of these risk analyzes without a practical verification at the workstations (shop floor) of the potential ways of failure.One of the methodologies that can be used to avoid these complaints and to continuously improve the quality of the products is R-FMEA.
R-FMEA helps:
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Transport management - suggestions for the future
From the very beginning Supply Chain Management (SCM), whose existence was defined as the process dealing with the management of inventories and costs in the distribution chain, it was observed that the orientation only towards the management of inventories was not sufficient to improve and optimize. logistics costs. Transport management has been and continues to be one of the difficult topics to tackle in logistics.Transport represents 25-30% of the logistics costs of the distribution chain,...Read this article...
QRQC - Quick Response Quality Control
Usually, PROBLEMS are viewed in everyday life as a real pain and something that must be avoided at all costs.In business, PROBLEMS can lead to low productivity, poor quality, high costs and ultimately loss of customers if they are not dealt with quickly and completely prevented their recurrence.The QRQC method can be used for:• resolve and respond to a customer complaint• solve an internal problem, selected on the basis of its importance.It is suitable for problems of medium...Read this article...
Robots - the machines that continue to change our lives
From the construction of the first robot in 1770 that could write a 40-character sentence, made by a Swiss watchmaker, and to this day these machines have been amazingly developed, mainly due to the automation revolution in the industry.A robot is a programmable machine capable of performing a series of actions.Their shape is not unique, it is consistent with the applications it is used for.Currently, the largest spread of robots is in the construction industry, they are now present in any...Read this article...
Preventive maintenance
What does preventive maintenance mean? It is a regularly planned, repetitive activity, made to keep the equipment in working order and to optimize their efficiency and accuracy.This activity involves routine operations such as periodic cleaning, lubrication, testing, calibration and adjustment, wear check and possibly replacement of components.Preventive maintenance is performed while the equipment is functional and has the role of reducing the risk of unexpected failure. It must be planned in...Read this article...
5S - one of the first steps
5S is a powerful LEAN tool, a tool that provides the basis and then a healthy development for a KAIZEN approach to a workplace, a department, a company, and even at the level of civil society. 5S does not only apply to mass productions, large series, small or unique but also in services, administration, medical, banking, wherever there are people, flows and processes.The 5S are the initials of the 5 Japanese words Seiri (Sort), Seiton (Arrange), Seiso (Clean), Seiketsu (Standardization),...
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How is Minitab helping us
MINITAB is a statistical software package developed at Pennsylvania State University that has become one of the most widely used in the world.The program is used intensively for various applications such as graphical data interpretation, quality tools (SPC, MSA), Six Sigma and Reliability (maintenance) projects.MINITAB helps us to:• Explore data by graphical analysis: The Pareto chart helps us prioritize project activities, Histograms and Dot Plot are used to show the frequency of...Read this article...
Plastic
Plastics are a constant presence in everyday life, having uses in various fields such as heavy industry, machine building industry (automotive components), food industry (packaging), aeronautical industry, pharmaceutical industry, light industry (goods). consumer goods or toys) and many more.One of the most used techniques for processing plastics is by injection because in this way complex parts with various uses can be obtained as mentioned above.Knowing the classification method, the types,...Read this article...
What is Six Sigma ?
More and more people are learning about Six Sigma.Many people ask themselves, "Would I use a Six Sigma Green Belt or Black Belt certification?" But what does Six Sigma really mean?Jack Welch, president and general manager of General Electric, said that "Six Sigma is a quality program that, when all is said and done, improves your customer experience, reduces costs and builds better leaders."Six Sigma is a process improvement methodology that follows the following 5 steps (DMAIC):Definition:...
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FMEA AIAG / VDA
As most of those connected with the automotive world have probably already learned, in June 2019 the first unified edition of AIAG / VDA for the FMEA standard was published.The initial idea that started from this reunification was the standardization of the tables for the evaluation of Severity, Occurrence and Detection, which were treated differently by the North American and European industry, often leading to confusion or high complexity in the product development or improvement activities....Read this article...
Quick Statistics for Minitab
The QUICK STATISTICS application meets the requirements of our customers to significantly reduce the time that engineers spend in collecting, processing and analyzing production data.Access to data: Data extraction takes a few minutes. We use the most common files (csv, txt, xls, etc.).Data filtering: The operator interface allows to choose the data to be analyzed by: car, period, etc.Minitab analysis: We statistically analyze stability and capability.This is an analysis solution that reduces...Read this article...
Who's paying us the salary?
How many times have you heard of colleagues at the Acquisitions as "working for suppliers"? But about my colleagues at Sales as "as if they were working for clients"? In this article we talk about the money that I give to suppliers and customers in the desire to do a good level of service ... and not only. What if I told you that all your employees, as long as they are not supervised, "make gifts" to your clients and suppliers?Read this article...
Modern method of job optimization and error reduction
Effective Flux is in partnership with the producer of a modern technology for organizing the workplace to promote the Romanian market.This method guides operators in their daily collection and assembly tasks to reduce human errors. This leads to improved quality, efficiency and human capital.Read this article...
Introduction to acquisitions
In their long way of transforming raw materials into shining finite products and meeting the needs of the current market, materials and services manage to make the whole world spin around: there are stock exchanges that, through their evolution, make savings to grow and crash, sometimes politically, but often strictly economic, dictated by the market.Read this article...
Production or planned production
Any business that has production units in the back is confronted with a major problem: rational and efficient sharing of resources (people, cars, materials and financial). This division aims to maintain the business in a competitive environment and in a permanent change. Customers and their customers are increasingly demanding variations and flexibility, and they can only be met by maintaining and improving the price of the product or service we sell.Read this article...
CEN/TS 17091:2018
December 11th, 2018, Deloitte Office, London – in front of an highly interested audience, which was also bearing worries related to the consequences of the fast-approaching Brexit, CEN/TS 17091:2018 was officially released.
The standard aims to bring out directions and steps for crisis management, regardless the size and complexity of the organisations and their activities.
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Cluj interactive workshop 28.09.2018
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Workshop Arad 16.03 - Optimization and quality for your business
On March 16, 2018, Effective Flux organized the interactive workshop "Optimizing and Quality for Your Business".The session took place at the Continental Forum Hotel in Arad.The Practical Seminar has been geared towards leading companies and was an excellent opportunity to understand how we can become more productive without large investments, but also for networking.Among the topics addressed were:- Value Added. Waste identification. Techniques to reduce waste. Lean production systems....Read this article...
Workshop - Optimization and quality for your business
On 29.11.2017, Effective Flux with the support of the Iasi Chamber of Commerce and Industry organized the workshop "Optimization and Quality for Your Business".The topics discussed were:- Value Added. Waste identification. Techniques to reduce waste. Lean production systems. Implementation.- The quality. Efficacy vs. Efficiency. Quality Link - Lean Production System.- Common Problem Solving Techniques: 5 What, Ishikawa, Brainstorming, PDCA, 8D, Six Sigma. Advantages and disadvantages in use.We...Read this article...
QC Story
QC story is a systematic methodology commonly used in practical procedures and practical methods of problem solving in team.It appeared at the Seisakusho Li Tianjin plant, which is in Komatsu, Ishikawa in Japan and has developed continuously, Its merits being recognized in "Journal of Quality Vol. 23, no. 1 (2016).QC Story Methodology is a tool that has its roots in TQM (Total Quality Management), starts from the general principle of continuous improvement - PDCA and consists of 7 steps:•...Read this article...
Data collection plan
Data collection is usually the most time consuming process and the most resources in the measuring process. This step is very important because the quality of this will have an impact on the following decision-making process, in particular to the analysis of the data.Data collection plan is a document that makes us sure that all team members speak about the same parameters, that information is properly transmitted to people in the organization in order to receive and collect the exactly data...Read this article...
Statistical techniques using Minitab and Qdas
In the production process, machines, peoples, materials, methods and environment lead to fluctuations in the results accuracy. Normal fluctuations have less impact on product quality and it is technically inevitable but abnormal fluctuations has more impact and lead to defects.SPC – Statistical process control is a process control methodology using statistical methods and was invented for the first time using control charts at 1924 at Bell Laboratories in USA.SPC is widely applied to...Read this article...
PDCA, 8D or Six Sigma
Problems are seen in everyday life as a real pain and something to be avoided by fair means or foul. In business, problems can lead to low productivity, poor quality, high costs and ultimately loss of customers if the problems are not dealt with rapidity and totally prevented reappearance.When referring to methodologies for solving problems and not to the tools themselves, here are the most common methods for solving problems: PDCA, Six Sigma (DMAIC), 8D.PDCA is a methodology of solving...Read this article...
Techniques of improvement often used
Between the managerial processes components of quality management, continuous quality improvement has a dominant role in reducing costs and in the economic growth of organizations. Continuous improvement refers primarily to improve the process and is used to identify, analyze and improve existing processes in an organization to achieve goals and objectives.Depending on the complexity of the problems, degree of staff involvement, with or without statistical methods, methodologies used most in...Read this article...
Selection of Improvement Methods
There is a large variety of methods to apply in improvement projects. Their various possible permutations can make it difficult for a company to choose the best approach for its project-related and organizational characteristics. Solving problems, starting with the simplest and ending with the organizational desire to become a world - class organization drives to implementation of some improvement methods which increase competitiveness and help companies to satisfy their customers.Six Sigma,...Read this article...
Six Sigma in energy production
Examples of measurable indicators for the specific activity of transport can be: primary energy intensity, CO2 intensity, efficiency of the power plants, specific energy consumption, etc.An example of a successful project using Six Sigma is “Reducing sulfur oxide emissions from burning coal in power plants “. This project solved the problem of streamline of activities and reduce the negative influence of environment. The key indicator which give the performance of the process and...Read this article...
Six Sigma in energy transportation
Examples of measurable indicators for the specific activity of transport of energy can be: Quantity of electricity delivered, coefficient of losses, average unavailability in time of facilities, line length unavailable for event, transformer / auto transformer nominal apparent power (MVA), the duration (time in hours) of unavailability to the event, etc.An example of a successful project using Six Sigma is “decrease downtime “. The key indicator which give the performance of the...Read this article...
Continuous improvement in aquisitions
Aquisition process, like any process, is composed of a sequence of operations that transform inputs into outputs and adds value. When we talk about entries we think of course about suppliers and performance of their products, including their evaluation, which is also an IATF 16949 standard requirement.Therefore, evaluating of suppliers and monitoring their performance are the main actions, through we can make the exit or exits from our production process to be performants.Read this article...
Moderating workshops
The training process is a complex process that begins with a theoretical part but which ultimately focuses on putting it into practice. The most conclusive example is the development of an 8D Report based on the knowledge gained in 8D courses, building statistical control charts after the Statistical Process Control courses or Gage R & R study after attending the Measurement System Analysis courses.Moderating Workshops course contains guidelines and tools that can be used successfully in...Read this article...
Six Sigma in administration
Six Sigma can help to improve services provided by the administration or to reduce costs and compliance with the budgets granted. Examples of measurable indicators can be: time of deliver of a service (example an approval of document of urbanism), time for fulfillment of some objectives, % of objectives fulflled from total, time for invoices payment, etc.For example: A Six Sigma project could be "Reducing the time of issuing the building permit." This process goes through several phases:...Read this article...
Six Sigma in the food industry
The food industry is extremely complex. This industry has some features linked by the nature of the raw materials processed and the finished products obtained. Raw materials are mostly biological products, perishable and degradable. Starting from here we can conclude the need for improvements that can be done with Six Sigma. Six Sigma is a data-driven systematic approach. DMAIC methodology - Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve & Control is used to improve the existing process.An example of a...Read this article...
Six Sigma in livestock farming
Many of us have heard about farms, stories about traditional diets, about long forgotten recipes in an actual kitchen increasingly assault by "flavor of the supermarket". Farms are a complex area, with a major impact on human health and the environment, on the rural economy and society as a whole.An example of a successful project in a farm is using Six Sigma is "Increase of integral milk sales". In first phase, Define, was found that in the shop from the village some customers talk that "the...Read this article...
Six Sigma in agricultural farms
Agriculture is the science, art or practice that deals with the production of plant and animal food, fiber or useful materials through the systematic cultivation of certain plants.In agriculture, there are many parameters that can be measured: Soil type, previous plant, crop rotation, fertilizer application, tillage, seed treatment, the optimal time of sowing, optimal seeding density, crop maintenance works (irrigation, mechanization), storage and preservation, etc. Only food mentioned in the...Read this article...
Six Sigma in passenger transport
In the current competitive market, many transport companies offer the same services of person transport. The main distinguishing factor in front of users is, most of the time, the quality of these services. Six Sigma can help improve the quality in person transport.Six Sigma is a data driven process improvement methodology based on DMAIC cycle (Define – Measure-Analyze – Improve – Control). Examples of measurable indicators for the specific activity of transport could be: time...Read this article...
Six Sigma in purchasing
Acquisition process, like any process, is composed of a sequence of operations that transform inputs into outputs and adds value. When we talk about entries we think of course about suppliers and performance of their products, including their evaluation. Evaluating is ISO 9001 or 16949 IATF requirement.Six Sigma is a 5 steps methodology (Define - Measure - Improve - Control) and can help in improving the acquisition process. Examples of measurable indicators in acquisitions can be: the minimum...Read this article...
Six Sigma in courier services
Six Sigma can help improve courier services that provide transport activities, parcel transport, that means transport and postal activities. Examples of measurable indicators can be: rate of delays in delivery, number or rate of human error, income and expenses on cost centers and cost, fast reaction times.For example: A Six Sigma project could be "Increase customer satisfaction". The key indicator which give the performance of the process is index of customer satisfaction (S) and it is...Read this article...
Six Sigma in retail
According with Pareto's Rule (80/20) in retail is not wrong to say that 80% of sales come from 20% of your inventory. Starting from this principle we can think about how to apply continuous improvement in retail sales. Can be used also Six Sigma methodology.Read this article...
Six Sigma in sports
Few people know that Bob Hayes went under 10 seconds in the 100 meters race at the Olympic Games in Tokyo in 1964. The record now is 9.58 seconds which was run by Usain Bolt. Also in sport we can use improvement techniques like Six Sigma.An example of a successful project using Six Sigma was "Improving running time in the 100 m / Athletics". The key indicator which give the performance of the process and choose to be improved is running time until the completion (T).Read this article...
Six Sigma in transportation
Examples of measurable indicators in transport activity can be: average transport distance (D); loading of truck (G%); specific cost of the delivery by example cost per km (p); tonnage per axle (T); productivity (P), etc.Here is an example of successfully using Six Sigma: “Increased productivity of transportation”. The key indicator which give the performance of the process is P / Productivity (tons x km/tons capacity). This indicator should be as big as possible and it is critical...Read this article...
Six Sigma in the textile industry
For the textile industry, quality of is essential and diversity of products is the same a critical concern.The textile industry is an area with lots of variations and defects in manufacturing processes. So, applying Six Sigma is a must for this area.An example of a successful project using Six Sigma is "Reducing the variations that occur during the seam of perimeter”. The key indicator which give the performance of the process is seam allowance, which is the distance from the seam to the...Read this article...
Six Sigma in logistics
Here is an example of successfully using Six Sigma: “Reducing stopping lines time caused by logistical problems”. The key indicator which give the performance of the process is Y% - the percentage of stops caused by logistics errors reported to total available (Td). This indicator should be as small as possible and it is critical for customer satisfaction (delivery time) and for cost reduction in the same time.In Define is identify and study the process and select the team that will...Read this article...
Six Sigma in the hotel industry
Here is an example of successfully project using Six Sigma used to improve activity in hotels. Project name is “Increase customer satisfaction”. The Define was studied process (process map), was established the team to work on this project and have listened to the voice of customers, VOC. The key indicator which give the performance of the process was choose “Customer satisfaction” noted with Cs.A questionnaire with 10 questions was used and data were collected for 2...Read this article...
Fault Tree Analysis
Fault Tree Analysis was developed by Bell Telephone laboratories in 1962 for U.S. Air Force and later adopted and extensively used by Boeing Company.Fault Tree Analysis is in fact a technique by which many events that interact to produce other events can be related using simple logical relationship. This technique follow a top - down structure and represent graphical model of the pathways within a system between basic events that can lead to a foreseeable loss event (or a failure) referred to...Read this article...
