Throughout history, ceramics have been important for food usage, storage, and art. The modern ceramics industry creates products for electronics and building components. Lean and Six Sigma are used in the industry to improve manufacturing and distribution. We’ll look at applications from India, Poland, and Portugal, and finish with a video of making ceramic wall [...]
Mobile phones are used in every country in the world. Lean and Six Sigma help in their production and distribution. We’ll look at three case studies from India, United Arab Emirates, and Brazil. We’ll finish with a video of how Samsung smartphones are made. Applying Six Sigma DMAIC to Reduce Mobile Phone Soldering Defects: [...]
Lean and Six Sigma have been used in the appliance industry for many years as practiced by GE, Maytag, Whirlpool, and others. We’ll explore their use with a look at three case studies: two from Egypt, and one from India, along with two videos: one on the use of Lean at GE Appliances and one [...]
Glass is produced through a manufacturing process. Lean and Six Sigma are used to improve glass-making. We’ll examine examples of several glass-making processes using Lean and Six Sigma from picture tubes to windshields. We’ll finish with a video of the float glass manufacturing process. Glass Neck of Picture Tubes: India In a paper titled “Implementation [...]
Time and motion studies have been around for well over a hundred years. Based on the foundational work of Frederick Winslow Taylor and Frank and Lillian Gilbreth, they are as relevant today whenever repetitive work is performed by humans. Set firmly in the discipline of industrial engineering, we’ll explore time and motion studies by a [...]
