Measure Phase

Measure Phase

I began my Measure Phase by making up a log for tracking issues for the product builders. These issues were highlighted in a brainstorming session carried out in the Define Stage.The team used this to keep track of the issues stoping them achieving their target in the polish jobstep. This is all bearing in mind that we are trying to implement a process inprovement and we have not yet gotten to trials where we will be aiming for 58 units a shift but nothing what problems and issues are already there making like difficult for the operators

Next with this information i constructed a pareto to make it visial
We have also been tracking the output across all 3 shifts in all the pods where we want to increase the output for the last 4 weeks. With this information we carried out a capability study where we compared our current baseline against our purposed output increase. we found that we are already hitting our purposed target 12% of the time without any changes implemented, this was a reality check and helped put things inperspective, i thought this was very useful, we used Minitab for this. (see below)
In summary i just gathered what data we felt we needed with the help of the team using a log to keep track of issues, we used a pareto to visulise this.
The output data was very important to guage where we are now against where we want to be. Minitab I found excellent.
We now have info for the Analyse Phase and will look at it more closely there.