Quality Circle

Hi friends! This article will help you to understand about the Quality Circle. It is one of the fundamental tool of Business Excellence which is mostly used in Manufacturing Industries to improve Key Performance Indicator of an organization. It is a group activity consisting of 4-5 workmen members. DR. K. ISHIKAWA is known as father … Read more

Root Cause Analysis with example.

Hi folks! Today we will discuss about Root Cause Analysis. It is a very useful tool which is used in different TQM initiatives like Quality Circle, Kaizen, TPM SGA, Six Sigma etc. Many manufacturing companies do the improvement project to reduce waste, manufacturing cost, rejection etc. Impact of improvement project can be seen more if … Read more

Kaizen

Hi readers. This article will help to understand about kaizen. Kaizen is a Japanese word and meaning of Kaizen is change for better. Kai = Change, Zen = Better. Now these days one quote is very famous and that is “CHANGE IS CONSTANT”. In line with above quote a lot of changes have been seen … Read more

5S

Hi readers! This article will help you to understand about 5S. It is one of the most fundamental tool of Business Excellence that can be implemented in any organisation like Manufacturing/ Service / Hospitals /Mall etc. 5S can be practised even at home. This initiative will help to form effective people culture through participation of … Read more

Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA)

Hi folks! This article will help you to understand about the FMEA. It is a tool which is used in manufacturing industry specially in Automobile sector. If your organization is supplier partner/Vendor of Automobile company, then FMEA document need to be followed. If your organization is certified with IATF 16949 then in that case it … Read more

What is the difference among Correction, Corrective action & Preventive action?

Corrective action– action to eliminate the root cause of a nonconformity and to prevent recurrence. Correction– action to eliminate a detected nonconformity Preventive action– action to eliminate the cause of a potential nonconformity or other potential undesirable situation. This has been illustrated with below mentioned example. Day -1 Suppose a boy is suffering from fever … Read more

What is False Alarm & Miss Alarm in manufacturing process?| Explained with some examples !!

Hi readers!! This article will help you to understand False alarm & Miss alarm of a process of a manufacturing company. Generally Quality Assurance team or Technical team uses this method for conducting inspection on sampling basis. It is a part of Measurement System Analysis(MSA) and also used in Six Sigma. We will also learn … Read more