The present work deals with application of DMAIC for minimization of sand casting defects in a process industry. DMAIC approach is justified when root cause of defect is not traceable. At present, global and competitive environment, foundary industries need to perform efficiently with minimum number of rejection in their manufacturing products. For better improvement in the casting quality, fir...

Statistical process control is an excellent quality assurance tool to improve the quality of manufacture and ultimately scores on end-customer satisfaction. SPC uses process monitoring charts to record the key quality characteristics (KQCs) of the component in manufacture. This paper elaborates on one such KQC of the manufacturing of a connecting rod of an internal combustion engine. Here th...

Six Sigma is a smarter way to manage business or department. It is a vision of quality that equates with only 3.4 defects for million opportunities for each product or service transactions, Strives for perfection. We believe that defects free product can be in any organization implementing six sigma. In this paper, we presented an overview of the process which explains how six sigma increase th...

Six sigma is a highly disciplined process that focuses on developing and delivering nearperfect products and services consistently. Six sigma is also a management stragety to use statistical tools and project work to achieve breakthrough profitability and quantum gains in quality. The steps in the six sigma process are Define, Measure, Analyse, Improve, Control or DMAIC for short (Kubiak T.M, B...

Indian industries need overall operational excellence for sustainable profitability and growth in the present age of global competitiveness. Among different quality and productivity improvement techniques, Six Sigma has emerged as one of the most effective breakthrough improvement strategies. Though Indian industries are exploring this improvement methodology to their advantage and reaping the ...

The fast changing economic conditions such as global competition, declining profit margin, customer demand for high quality product, product variety and reduced lead– time etc. had a major impact on manufacturing industries. To respond to these needs various industrial engineering and quality management strategies such as ISO 9000, Total Quality Management, Kaizen, Just–in–time manufacturing, E...

Maintaining the best quality is essential for the survival of a company in a globally competitive world. Six Sigma activity has been widely accepted as one of the most efficient and powerful problem-solving methods for quality issues. The define-measure-analyze-improvecontrol (DMAIC) approach based on data has been very powerful for identifying, defining, solving a problem, and controlling the ...

The DMAIC (Define-Measure-Analyze-Improve-Control) method in Six Sigma is often described as an approach for problem solving. This paper compares critically the DMAIC method with insights from scientific theories in the field of problem solving. As a single authoritative account of the DMAIC method does not exist, the study uses a large number of sources, consisting of prescriptive accounts of ...

We present a “define, measure, analyze, improve, and control” (DMAIC) methodology to model the knowledge discovery process for BI applications, specifically in statistical analysis and data mining. We implemented the DMAIC methodology embedded into the existed Financial Knowledge Management System (FKMS), which can be used as an effective means to dramatically improve knowledge product and proc...