This document proposes implementing Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) on the automatic brake adjuster assembly line at Haldex Brake Products AB. It begins with an introduction to TPM and the company/products. The methodology section discusses Overall Equipment Effectiveness and the six big losses. Data was collected on the current process, including a value stream map and root cause analysis. A 10-step implementation plan is then proposed, including establishing a pilot team, education programs, goal-setting, and developing autonomous and preventative maintenance plans. Autonomous maintenance and checklists are described in detail. Finally, problems with the current data collection system are identified and an online, automated solution is proposed to better track downtime, breakdowns and
This document provides information about a Management of Change (MOC) Training Course. The 3-5 day course, led by a senior instructor with over 25 years experience, aims to help participants understand how to develop, implement, and maintain an effective MOC program. The course covers topics such as defining MOC, categorizing changes, conducting MOC reviews, monitoring the MOC program, and incorporating legal/regulatory requirements. It is intended for operations, maintenance, engineering, and safety personnel who are involved in reviewing and approving changes or overseeing process safety. The goal is to refresh or build knowledge of MOC techniques to help companies safely manage changes to their processes and facilities over the lifecycle from design to decommissioning
Process Equipment Malfunctions offers the chance to develop proven techniques for
finding and fixing process plant problems and contains details on failure identification.
One of the most important traits that process operators, maintenance personnel, and
engineers can have is the ability to diagnose equipment and process upsets and
respond accordingly quickly and accurately.
Troubleshooting is a step-by-step procedure whose purpose is to identify a problem
quickly and easily in a system or process. Troubleshooting is an art, but a good portion
is a learned skill, which is enhanced by experience and operator capability. A good
operator will work at developing troubleshooting skills and abilities. A good
troubleshooter is worth his or her weight in gold to a company.
About the course
A key component of production cost is maintenance and the key role of maintenance is to guarantee the reliability of the
production. The crucial element for ensuring that maintenance is cost effectively delivered is the planning and scheduling of
maintenance tasks.
Given the huge impact maintenance management can have on production output, as well as the increasing tendency for
maintenance departments to be asked to do “more with less”, it is essential that maintenance professionals strive toward the
implementation of best practices in maintenance planning.
Ron Moore, author of Making Common Sense Common Practice, quotes benchmarking studies that show that reactive
maintenance correlates strongly with poor plant or facility performance. Yet many companies are still operating in this firefighting mode.
A proactive approach means that we regain control of the work we do and it’s timing. This leads to improved safety and
availability. This course provides a methodology for: pre-planning routine maintenance tasks generated by predictive and preventive maintenance programs, planning tasks to recover from malfunction or breakdown and a strategy to allow us to cope with random failure. The course will cover the essential steps we need to take to plan and schedule our maintenance work properly. That will help maximize the proactive content and further our goal of achieving best-in-class performance
In summary, this 3-day intensive training course will help maintenance professionals to:
Develop the ability to produce logical and comprehensive maintenance plans using a systematic and structured approach.
Produce work schedules that optimize Plant Availability.
Enable high productivity and effectiveness of the workforce by proper work preparation.
Plan the ‘unexpected’; managing trips, breakdowns and other unwanted incidents, smoothly and efficiently.
Who Should Attend
Maintenance Managers, Engineers, Planners, Schedulers, Supervisors and Senior Technicians.
Individual Attention and Post Training Support
• Delegates will get individual attention, working in teams of four.
• Additional skilled and experienced trainers will be brought to help, if the numbers are larger, so as to maintain the teams
to trainer ratio at about 4:1.
• Participants will have email access to the trainer 3 months post training for any questions on implementation issues.
A key component of production cost is maintenance and the key role of maintenance is to guarantee the reliability of the production. The crucial element for ensuring that maintenance is cost effectively delivered is the planning and scheduling of maintenance tasks.
Given the huge impact maintenance management can have on production output, as well as the increasing tendency for maintenance departments to be asked to do “more with less”, it is essential that maintenance professionals strive toward the implementation of best practices in maintenance planning.
Ron Moore, author of Making Common Sense Common Practice, quotes benchmarking studies that show that reactive maintenance correlates strongly with poor plant or facility performance. Yet many companies are still operating in this fire-fighting mode.
A proactive approach means that we regain control of the work we do and it’s timing. This leads to improved safety and availability. This course provides a methodology for: pre-planning routine maintenance tasks generated by predictive and preventive maintenance programs, planning tasks to recover from malfunction or breakdown and a strategy to allow us to cope with random failure. The course will cover the essential steps we need to take to plan and schedule our maintenance work properly. That will help maximize the proactive content and further our goal of achieving best-in-class performance.
We can’t keep doing what we have always done and expect different results.
70% of maintenance and reliability projects fail due to poor execution. Learn why and what you can do to improve your odds.
This is a short and easy read focused on discipline of execution.
This document provides information about a maintenance planning and scheduling course taking place in Lagos, Nigeria from July 2-4, 2014. The course will provide participants with essential physical asset management skills and teach best practices for maintenance planning and scheduling. It will cover topics such as maintenance strategy, work planning, scheduling and performance indicators. The fee for the 3-day course is 126,000 Naira per participant and organizations can also request customized in-house training. Interested individuals should contact the business development desk for registration details.
Craft skills are key to the success of any maintenance organization. Determine the current maintenance craft skill maturity in your organization today and begin the journey to success. If you do not know the current maturity level of your current maintenance craft skills use this Craft Skills Maturity Matrix to determine the maturity level of maintenance skills in your organization.
If an organization does not hire or train the right people, to the right skill level, optimizing Reliability will not occur.
The document discusses the importance of proactive maintenance planning and scheduling. It outlines how to measure current effectiveness, set goals for planning and scheduling, prioritize work, and develop standards and guiding principles. Implementing effective planning and scheduling requires defining roles, developing work procedures, ensuring parts are available, and focusing on eliminating failures.
This document provides information about a Management of Change (MOC) Training Course. The 3-5 day course, led by a senior instructor with over 25 years experience, aims to help participants understand how to develop, implement, and maintain an effective MOC program. The course covers topics such as defining MOC, categorizing changes, conducting MOC reviews, monitoring the MOC program, and incorporating legal/regulatory requirements. It is intended for operations, maintenance, engineering, and safety personnel who are involved in reviewing and approving changes or overseeing process safety. The goal is to refresh or build knowledge of MOC techniques to help companies safely manage changes to their processes and facilities over the lifecycle from design to decommissioning
Process Equipment Malfunctions offers the chance to develop proven techniques for
finding and fixing process plant problems and contains details on failure identification.
One of the most important traits that process operators, maintenance personnel, and
engineers can have is the ability to diagnose equipment and process upsets and
respond accordingly quickly and accurately.
Troubleshooting is a step-by-step procedure whose purpose is to identify a problem
quickly and easily in a system or process. Troubleshooting is an art, but a good portion
is a learned skill, which is enhanced by experience and operator capability. A good
operator will work at developing troubleshooting skills and abilities. A good
troubleshooter is worth his or her weight in gold to a company.
About the course
A key component of production cost is maintenance and the key role of maintenance is to guarantee the reliability of the
production. The crucial element for ensuring that maintenance is cost effectively delivered is the planning and scheduling of
maintenance tasks.
Given the huge impact maintenance management can have on production output, as well as the increasing tendency for
maintenance departments to be asked to do “more with less”, it is essential that maintenance professionals strive toward the
implementation of best practices in maintenance planning.
Ron Moore, author of Making Common Sense Common Practice, quotes benchmarking studies that show that reactive
maintenance correlates strongly with poor plant or facility performance. Yet many companies are still operating in this firefighting mode.
A proactive approach means that we regain control of the work we do and it’s timing. This leads to improved safety and
availability. This course provides a methodology for: pre-planning routine maintenance tasks generated by predictive and preventive maintenance programs, planning tasks to recover from malfunction or breakdown and a strategy to allow us to cope with random failure. The course will cover the essential steps we need to take to plan and schedule our maintenance work properly. That will help maximize the proactive content and further our goal of achieving best-in-class performance
In summary, this 3-day intensive training course will help maintenance professionals to:
Develop the ability to produce logical and comprehensive maintenance plans using a systematic and structured approach.
Produce work schedules that optimize Plant Availability.
Enable high productivity and effectiveness of the workforce by proper work preparation.
Plan the ‘unexpected’; managing trips, breakdowns and other unwanted incidents, smoothly and efficiently.
Who Should Attend
Maintenance Managers, Engineers, Planners, Schedulers, Supervisors and Senior Technicians.
Individual Attention and Post Training Support
• Delegates will get individual attention, working in teams of four.
• Additional skilled and experienced trainers will be brought to help, if the numbers are larger, so as to maintain the teams
to trainer ratio at about 4:1.
• Participants will have email access to the trainer 3 months post training for any questions on implementation issues.
A key component of production cost is maintenance and the key role of maintenance is to guarantee the reliability of the production. The crucial element for ensuring that maintenance is cost effectively delivered is the planning and scheduling of maintenance tasks.
Given the huge impact maintenance management can have on production output, as well as the increasing tendency for maintenance departments to be asked to do “more with less”, it is essential that maintenance professionals strive toward the implementation of best practices in maintenance planning.
Ron Moore, author of Making Common Sense Common Practice, quotes benchmarking studies that show that reactive maintenance correlates strongly with poor plant or facility performance. Yet many companies are still operating in this fire-fighting mode.
A proactive approach means that we regain control of the work we do and it’s timing. This leads to improved safety and availability. This course provides a methodology for: pre-planning routine maintenance tasks generated by predictive and preventive maintenance programs, planning tasks to recover from malfunction or breakdown and a strategy to allow us to cope with random failure. The course will cover the essential steps we need to take to plan and schedule our maintenance work properly. That will help maximize the proactive content and further our goal of achieving best-in-class performance.
We can’t keep doing what we have always done and expect different results.
70% of maintenance and reliability projects fail due to poor execution. Learn why and what you can do to improve your odds.
This is a short and easy read focused on discipline of execution.
This document provides information about a maintenance planning and scheduling course taking place in Lagos, Nigeria from July 2-4, 2014. The course will provide participants with essential physical asset management skills and teach best practices for maintenance planning and scheduling. It will cover topics such as maintenance strategy, work planning, scheduling and performance indicators. The fee for the 3-day course is 126,000 Naira per participant and organizations can also request customized in-house training. Interested individuals should contact the business development desk for registration details.
Craft skills are key to the success of any maintenance organization. Determine the current maintenance craft skill maturity in your organization today and begin the journey to success. If you do not know the current maturity level of your current maintenance craft skills use this Craft Skills Maturity Matrix to determine the maturity level of maintenance skills in your organization.
If an organization does not hire or train the right people, to the right skill level, optimizing Reliability will not occur.
The document discusses the importance of proactive maintenance planning and scheduling. It outlines how to measure current effectiveness, set goals for planning and scheduling, prioritize work, and develop standards and guiding principles. Implementing effective planning and scheduling requires defining roles, developing work procedures, ensuring parts are available, and focusing on eliminating failures.
Effective Maintenance Planning and Scheduling is a requirement not an option if one wants to optimize the effectiveness and efficiency of their maintenance workforce. Yes, identifying the right work is key however without effective maintenance planning and scheduling work execution will not be as effective and efficient.
Maintenance Wrench time is directly impacted by the effectiveness of maintenance planning and scheduling (Wrench time is the amount of time a maintenance person has their "hands on tools". World Class ranges from 55-65%)
Implementation of 5S and KOBETSU KAIZEN (TPM Pillar) in a Manufacturing Organ...IRJET Journal
This document discusses the implementation of 5S and Kobetsu Kaizen (a pillar of Total Productive Maintenance or TPM) in a manufacturing organization. It begins with an introduction to TPM, its pillars including 5S. It then presents the results of a case study on implementing 5S and TPM at Majestic Auto Limited, a company that manufactures automotive components. Audits of the 5S system before and after implementation show improvements in organization and cleanliness of the workplace. Calculations of Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) indicate it increased from 49.76% before to 69.27% after implementation, demonstrating a nearly 20% improvement in productivity.
This document provides guidance on establishing a maintenance management system for apparel firms. It describes the key elements of a maintenance management system, from initial inventory gathering to preparing a maintenance budget. The system framework helps with maintenance planning, work scheduling, completing work orders, and managing maintenance costs. Effective maintenance management can prevent health and safety issues, extend asset lifespan with fewer breakdowns, and reduce operating costs. It involves taking a systematic approach to planning, organizing, monitoring, and evaluating all maintenance activities and their associated costs.
The document proposes an agile business process development methodology. It discusses limitations of existing waterfall and agile approaches. The proposed methodology includes stages like analysis, design, construction, pilot, live, and diagnosis carried out through iterative 5-week cycles. It also describes modeling used, meetings structure, and provides an effort estimation formula developed from past project data. The methodology is intended to address challenges of business process projects by enabling faster adaptation to changes.
This thesis proposes and develops an agile business process software development methodology. The methodology was tested through developing two new processes using the methodology. The effort spent on developing these two new processes was compared to the effort spent on nine older processes developed using a traditional waterfall methodology. An estimation formula was developed that estimates the effort for traditional methodology projects based on characteristics of the implemented business processes. According to the formula, the proposed agile methodology resulted in a 21% reduction in effort compared to the traditional methodology. The key aspects of the proposed methodology include agile requirements gathering, iterative development, and periodic meetings between stakeholders.
This thesis proposes and develops an agile methodology for business process software development. The methodology was tested by developing two new processes. Its effectiveness was assessed by comparing the effort spent on developing these two new processes to the effort spent on nine older projects developed using a traditional methodology. An effort estimation formula was developed and showed that the proposed agile methodology resulted in a 21% reduction in effort compared to the traditional methodology. The key aspects of the proposed methodology included agile requirements gathering, periodic meetings, and incremental and iterative development.
“My maintenance staff is highly trained and do not like using procedures.” If the statement is valid, and the cost of asset failure is not important to our operation, then your staff must have an unlimited and infallible memory – congratulations!
Did you know that the most complex equipment ever built was a nuclear submarine and that the first nuclear submarines experienced failures due to lack of effective procedures, thus ending in catastrophic failure?
If safety is number one in your organization, then repeatable, effective work procedures should be as well.
Focused Improvement (Kobetsu Kaizen) is a pillar of TPM that involves targeted projects to eliminate specific losses that reduce equipment effectiveness. It uses a structured 8-step approach based on PDCA to systematically identify and resolve issues through cross-functional teams. Regular Focused Improvement activities are needed to continuously improve standards and maximize productivity by eliminating the 16 major losses.
The document proposes an agile business process development methodology. It discusses limitations of existing waterfall and agile approaches. The proposed methodology includes stages like analysis, design, construction, pilot, live, and diagnosis carried out through iterative 5-week cycles. It also describes modeling used, meetings structure, and provides an effort estimation formula developed from past project data. The methodology is intended to address challenges of business process projects and enable faster, higher quality development adapted to changing needs.
Maintenance Planning and Scheduling are key elements that influence the true success of any organization. Many times we have a planner or planner/scheduler, but do not know how to use him or her effectively or efficiently.
This thesis proposes and develops an agile methodology for business process software development. The methodology was tested by developing two new processes. Its effectiveness was assessed by comparing the effort spent on developing these two new processes to the effort spent on nine older projects developed using a traditional methodology. An effort estimation formula was developed that estimates the effort for traditional methodology projects. Based on this formula, the proposed agile methodology resulted in a 21% reduction in effort compared to the traditional methodology. The key aspects of the proposed methodology observed during its application include agile requirements gathering, periodic meetings, and incremental and iterative development.
The document proposes an agile business process development methodology. It discusses limitations of existing waterfall and agile approaches. The proposed methodology includes stages like analysis, design, construction, pilot, live, and diagnosis carried out through iterative 5-week cycles. It also describes modeling used, meetings structure, and provides an effort estimation formula developed from past project data. The methodology is intended to address challenges of business process projects by enabling faster adaptation to changes.
This document provides an overview of implementing Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) at Baxter Aibonito. It defines TPM, outlines its key elements and tools, and emphasizes the importance of overall equipment effectiveness (OEE) as a metric. It also provides examples of TPM processes like daily checklists and team roles, and explains how to calculate and improve OEE over time through TPM.
PACE: Process and Critical Equipment Conference in Dubai, Sept 24-25Ricky Smith CMRP, CMRT
PACE: Process and Critical Equipment
The key to optimising asset performance efficiency and management is by integrating the equipments,
processes and people.
Join me for a great learning experience. I will be the keynote and will presenting a paper as well. We have some great talent attending, see you in Dubai.
An enhanced improvement roadmap in six sigma methodologyShagai Ebo
This document is a thesis submitted by Mungunshagai Enkhbold to the Institute of Industrial Engineering and Management at Yuan Ze University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for a Master's degree. The thesis, advised by Dr. Chi-Kuang Chen, proposes an enhanced process improvement roadmap in Six Sigma methodology. It aims to address deficiencies in achieving a Six Sigma goal (Cpk=2) found when applying the traditional DMAIC roadmap. The enhanced roadmap places emphasis on measuring process capability to better ensure improvement. A case study is conducted to demonstrate the feasibility and effectiveness of the proposed roadmap.
The eight-discipline (8D) Approach to Problem-Solving is a systematic approach to problem-solving & documenting of results, developed by Ford Motor Co. It is an essential step to process improvement.
The 8D method provides you with an in-depth understanding of analyzing problems to identify the root causes.
This workshop provides you with a working knowledge of 8D effective root cause analysis and tools to address non conformity.
It will strengthen your understanding on;
what is 8D,
why Apply 8D,
when to Apply 8D &
how to Apply 8D at work.
Preventing Drowsy Driving Among Shift Workers - Employers' GuideStateFundCA
This guide will help you plan and implement a program to educate your shift workers about sleep-improvement methods and the dangers of drowsy driving. This resource is provided by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. www.nhtsa.gov
1) A wrench time study, or work sampling study, measures the percentage of time maintenance workers spend doing valuable tasks versus non-valuable tasks like waiting. It identifies issues that reduce efficiency.
2) The study is done by having workers record what they're doing when signaled by a PDA to minimize perceived evaluation. It requires 2,000-3,000 observations for accuracy.
3) The goals are improving planning, communication, and motivation to increase maintenance work completion and production capacity while reducing costs and failures.
This document outlines the top 10 reasons why maintenance planning is often ineffective. It discusses issues such as a lack of understanding around what effective maintenance planning looks like, not tracking key metrics like staff wrench time, a lack of defined processes for planning and scheduling, insufficient training of maintenance planners, and not establishing the right key performance indicators to measure maintenance planning effectiveness. The document emphasizes that achieving optimal reliability and costs requires adopting defined, proactive maintenance planning processes followed by committed leadership and all departments.
What metrics do you use for Maintenance Planning and Scheduling? Check out the metrics in this maturity matrix and see how they compare. This is Maturity Matrix 1 of 2 for Maintenance Planning and Scheduling.
This document provides an operation plan for a new factory producing ski locks. It outlines the manufacturing process which will use batch production. Key aspects include:
- The manufacturing process involves 5 stages: preparation, bending/drilling, hardening, injection moulding, and assembly/testing.
- A total of 7 employees are needed, including a managing director, operations manager, and 5 production operators.
- Two components, a locking bar and retractable wire, will be outsourced to specialized suppliers to ensure quality and cost-effectiveness.
- Quality management procedures like testing and ISO certification are described to meet customer and business requirements.
- Environmental sustainability is also considered through material sourcing
This guide is an extract from the two and three day course provided by me. It spans the complete testing lifecycle and the tool usages. It will look at the infrastructure implications and testing practices in formal and in agile teams. But, the main focus stays on the usages of the Microsoft Visual Studio testing tools, the knowledge you need to get starting with it, the practices you must have to work with it in real live and how you can bend the tools, with extensibility and normal use to your team needs.
The course and this guide is work in progress. It is not a testing training (I expect you already have testing knowledge), if you need that test process information I refer to the TMap website from Sogeti where you can find tons of information. This training guide follows the TMap testing lifecycle.
BETA work in progress, I add every training new material and tune current material.
Effective Maintenance Planning and Scheduling is a requirement not an option if one wants to optimize the effectiveness and efficiency of their maintenance workforce. Yes, identifying the right work is key however without effective maintenance planning and scheduling work execution will not be as effective and efficient.
Maintenance Wrench time is directly impacted by the effectiveness of maintenance planning and scheduling (Wrench time is the amount of time a maintenance person has their "hands on tools". World Class ranges from 55-65%)
Implementation of 5S and KOBETSU KAIZEN (TPM Pillar) in a Manufacturing Organ...IRJET Journal
This document discusses the implementation of 5S and Kobetsu Kaizen (a pillar of Total Productive Maintenance or TPM) in a manufacturing organization. It begins with an introduction to TPM, its pillars including 5S. It then presents the results of a case study on implementing 5S and TPM at Majestic Auto Limited, a company that manufactures automotive components. Audits of the 5S system before and after implementation show improvements in organization and cleanliness of the workplace. Calculations of Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) indicate it increased from 49.76% before to 69.27% after implementation, demonstrating a nearly 20% improvement in productivity.
This document provides guidance on establishing a maintenance management system for apparel firms. It describes the key elements of a maintenance management system, from initial inventory gathering to preparing a maintenance budget. The system framework helps with maintenance planning, work scheduling, completing work orders, and managing maintenance costs. Effective maintenance management can prevent health and safety issues, extend asset lifespan with fewer breakdowns, and reduce operating costs. It involves taking a systematic approach to planning, organizing, monitoring, and evaluating all maintenance activities and their associated costs.
The document proposes an agile business process development methodology. It discusses limitations of existing waterfall and agile approaches. The proposed methodology includes stages like analysis, design, construction, pilot, live, and diagnosis carried out through iterative 5-week cycles. It also describes modeling used, meetings structure, and provides an effort estimation formula developed from past project data. The methodology is intended to address challenges of business process projects by enabling faster adaptation to changes.
This thesis proposes and develops an agile business process software development methodology. The methodology was tested through developing two new processes using the methodology. The effort spent on developing these two new processes was compared to the effort spent on nine older processes developed using a traditional waterfall methodology. An estimation formula was developed that estimates the effort for traditional methodology projects based on characteristics of the implemented business processes. According to the formula, the proposed agile methodology resulted in a 21% reduction in effort compared to the traditional methodology. The key aspects of the proposed methodology include agile requirements gathering, iterative development, and periodic meetings between stakeholders.
This thesis proposes and develops an agile methodology for business process software development. The methodology was tested by developing two new processes. Its effectiveness was assessed by comparing the effort spent on developing these two new processes to the effort spent on nine older projects developed using a traditional methodology. An effort estimation formula was developed and showed that the proposed agile methodology resulted in a 21% reduction in effort compared to the traditional methodology. The key aspects of the proposed methodology included agile requirements gathering, periodic meetings, and incremental and iterative development.
“My maintenance staff is highly trained and do not like using procedures.” If the statement is valid, and the cost of asset failure is not important to our operation, then your staff must have an unlimited and infallible memory – congratulations!
Did you know that the most complex equipment ever built was a nuclear submarine and that the first nuclear submarines experienced failures due to lack of effective procedures, thus ending in catastrophic failure?
If safety is number one in your organization, then repeatable, effective work procedures should be as well.
Focused Improvement (Kobetsu Kaizen) is a pillar of TPM that involves targeted projects to eliminate specific losses that reduce equipment effectiveness. It uses a structured 8-step approach based on PDCA to systematically identify and resolve issues through cross-functional teams. Regular Focused Improvement activities are needed to continuously improve standards and maximize productivity by eliminating the 16 major losses.
The document proposes an agile business process development methodology. It discusses limitations of existing waterfall and agile approaches. The proposed methodology includes stages like analysis, design, construction, pilot, live, and diagnosis carried out through iterative 5-week cycles. It also describes modeling used, meetings structure, and provides an effort estimation formula developed from past project data. The methodology is intended to address challenges of business process projects and enable faster, higher quality development adapted to changing needs.
Maintenance Planning and Scheduling are key elements that influence the true success of any organization. Many times we have a planner or planner/scheduler, but do not know how to use him or her effectively or efficiently.
This thesis proposes and develops an agile methodology for business process software development. The methodology was tested by developing two new processes. Its effectiveness was assessed by comparing the effort spent on developing these two new processes to the effort spent on nine older projects developed using a traditional methodology. An effort estimation formula was developed that estimates the effort for traditional methodology projects. Based on this formula, the proposed agile methodology resulted in a 21% reduction in effort compared to the traditional methodology. The key aspects of the proposed methodology observed during its application include agile requirements gathering, periodic meetings, and incremental and iterative development.
The document proposes an agile business process development methodology. It discusses limitations of existing waterfall and agile approaches. The proposed methodology includes stages like analysis, design, construction, pilot, live, and diagnosis carried out through iterative 5-week cycles. It also describes modeling used, meetings structure, and provides an effort estimation formula developed from past project data. The methodology is intended to address challenges of business process projects by enabling faster adaptation to changes.
This document provides an overview of implementing Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) at Baxter Aibonito. It defines TPM, outlines its key elements and tools, and emphasizes the importance of overall equipment effectiveness (OEE) as a metric. It also provides examples of TPM processes like daily checklists and team roles, and explains how to calculate and improve OEE over time through TPM.
PACE: Process and Critical Equipment Conference in Dubai, Sept 24-25Ricky Smith CMRP, CMRT
PACE: Process and Critical Equipment
The key to optimising asset performance efficiency and management is by integrating the equipments,
processes and people.
Join me for a great learning experience. I will be the keynote and will presenting a paper as well. We have some great talent attending, see you in Dubai.
An enhanced improvement roadmap in six sigma methodologyShagai Ebo
This document is a thesis submitted by Mungunshagai Enkhbold to the Institute of Industrial Engineering and Management at Yuan Ze University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for a Master's degree. The thesis, advised by Dr. Chi-Kuang Chen, proposes an enhanced process improvement roadmap in Six Sigma methodology. It aims to address deficiencies in achieving a Six Sigma goal (Cpk=2) found when applying the traditional DMAIC roadmap. The enhanced roadmap places emphasis on measuring process capability to better ensure improvement. A case study is conducted to demonstrate the feasibility and effectiveness of the proposed roadmap.
The eight-discipline (8D) Approach to Problem-Solving is a systematic approach to problem-solving & documenting of results, developed by Ford Motor Co. It is an essential step to process improvement.
The 8D method provides you with an in-depth understanding of analyzing problems to identify the root causes.
This workshop provides you with a working knowledge of 8D effective root cause analysis and tools to address non conformity.
It will strengthen your understanding on;
what is 8D,
why Apply 8D,
when to Apply 8D &
how to Apply 8D at work.
Preventing Drowsy Driving Among Shift Workers - Employers' GuideStateFundCA
This guide will help you plan and implement a program to educate your shift workers about sleep-improvement methods and the dangers of drowsy driving. This resource is provided by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. www.nhtsa.gov
1) A wrench time study, or work sampling study, measures the percentage of time maintenance workers spend doing valuable tasks versus non-valuable tasks like waiting. It identifies issues that reduce efficiency.
2) The study is done by having workers record what they're doing when signaled by a PDA to minimize perceived evaluation. It requires 2,000-3,000 observations for accuracy.
3) The goals are improving planning, communication, and motivation to increase maintenance work completion and production capacity while reducing costs and failures.
This document outlines the top 10 reasons why maintenance planning is often ineffective. It discusses issues such as a lack of understanding around what effective maintenance planning looks like, not tracking key metrics like staff wrench time, a lack of defined processes for planning and scheduling, insufficient training of maintenance planners, and not establishing the right key performance indicators to measure maintenance planning effectiveness. The document emphasizes that achieving optimal reliability and costs requires adopting defined, proactive maintenance planning processes followed by committed leadership and all departments.
What metrics do you use for Maintenance Planning and Scheduling? Check out the metrics in this maturity matrix and see how they compare. This is Maturity Matrix 1 of 2 for Maintenance Planning and Scheduling.
This document provides an operation plan for a new factory producing ski locks. It outlines the manufacturing process which will use batch production. Key aspects include:
- The manufacturing process involves 5 stages: preparation, bending/drilling, hardening, injection moulding, and assembly/testing.
- A total of 7 employees are needed, including a managing director, operations manager, and 5 production operators.
- Two components, a locking bar and retractable wire, will be outsourced to specialized suppliers to ensure quality and cost-effectiveness.
- Quality management procedures like testing and ISO certification are described to meet customer and business requirements.
- Environmental sustainability is also considered through material sourcing
This guide is an extract from the two and three day course provided by me. It spans the complete testing lifecycle and the tool usages. It will look at the infrastructure implications and testing practices in formal and in agile teams. But, the main focus stays on the usages of the Microsoft Visual Studio testing tools, the knowledge you need to get starting with it, the practices you must have to work with it in real live and how you can bend the tools, with extensibility and normal use to your team needs.
The course and this guide is work in progress. It is not a testing training (I expect you already have testing knowledge), if you need that test process information I refer to the TMap website from Sogeti where you can find tons of information. This training guide follows the TMap testing lifecycle.
BETA work in progress, I add every training new material and tune current material.
HMT Machine Tools Ltd Ajmer Practical Summer Training ReportSiddharth Bhatnagar
The document provides an overview of the author's 60-day practical training experience at HMT Machine Tools Ltd. in Ajmer, India. It discusses the various departments the author worked in, including manufacturing, assembly, foundry, maintenance, and inspection. It also describes the key processes at HMT such as pattern making, sand moulding and core making in the foundry. The author gained exposure to different machine tools and grinding machines manufactured by HMT and learned about their manufacturing processes. Overall, the training provided the author practical experience of engineering functions and helped develop professional skills.
Total Productive Maintenance | TPM Traininghimalya sharma
TPM Training on Total Productive Maintenance is Conducted by Industry Experts, customized for you & connect with relevance to your Industry & Processes
This document provides an overview of industrial engineering concepts and applications in the apparel industry. It defines industrial engineering and discusses the scope of apparel engineering, including uses like quotas, costing, manpower planning, and production planning. It outlines benefits of engineering like work simplification, increased productivity and profits. It also describes several applications of industrial engineering in areas like merchandising, production planning, production, maintenance, quality control, and human resources. Key concepts discussed include operation bulletins, methods engineering, time and motion studies, and performance development.
Total productive maintenance (Total Quality Management)Ashwin Ashok Kumar
This document provides an overview of Total Productive Maintenance (TPM). It discusses the history and evolution of TPM, which originated from preventive maintenance practices in Japan. The key aspects of TPM include its 8 pillars - 5S, autonomous maintenance, kaizen, planned maintenance, quality maintenance, training, office TPM, and safety/environment. The document outlines the goals and processes for implementing each pillar. It also provides details on establishing an organizational structure for TPM and examples of companies that have successfully adopted a TPM program.
This document is a project report submitted by Samhita Prajapati to fulfill the requirements for a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Production Engineering. The report details two projects completed during an internship at Tenneco Automotive Pvt. Ltd: 1) Streamlining the program management tracking system for original equipment manufacturers by creating a centralized database using Excel VBA to track project statuses, and 2) Conducting a time study of a muffler end spinning machine to calculate production rates. The report includes an introduction, literature review, description of the program sheets created, screenshots, conclusions for each project, bibliography, and a section on personal experiences during the internship.
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1. Implementation of Total Productive
Maintenance on Haldex Assembly Line
Submitted by:
By
Zahid Habib
Kang Wang
Supervised by:
Dr. Mats Bejhem
March, 2008
Department of Production Engineering,
Royal Institute of Technology,
Sweden.
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
We would like to express our sincere gratitude to:
Prof. Cornel Mihai Nicolescu, Course Director Production Engineering, for his
invaluable support and guidance throughout the course work.
Our thesis supervisor at KTH, Dr. Mats Bejhem for his valuable time. His knowledge and
ideas were the driver of our thesis.
Our thesis supervisor at Haldex Brake Products, Landskrona, Mr. Kent Julin for giving us
time from his busy schedule and facilitating us at the plant.
Mr. Kent Marklund, trainings coordinator at Haldex, for his valuable advices throughout
our thesis. He broadened our perspective on problems which one can face while doing
such a project.
Dr. Jens Von Axelson, for helping us during first half of our thesis.
Mr. Lars Harder and Mr. Thomas Lundholm, for helping us in the second half of our
thesis.
The staff at Haldex related to assembly line for their help whenever we required.
Our friends during the course work for their support and help.
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ABSTRACT
The core of this thesis is doing a study on assembly line of automatic brake adjusters at
Haldex Brake Products AB and coming up with suggestions to implement total
productive maintenance on the assembly line.
Companies around the world spend a lot of money on buying new equipments to increase
production but a little is done to get hundred percent output from the machine for which it
is designed for. Small losses in time or small deviations from designed capability are
taken as normal machine behavior. But now because of increased competency levels and
demand of quality products at lower costs, buying latest equipment is not a solution
unless it is fully utilized. Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) is a plan which
concentrates on total involvement of everyone from top management to all employees to
implement a comprehensive maintenance program for all equipment throughout its life.
This plan results in maximum effectiveness of equipment, tidier, neat and clean work
place and morally boosted employees.
The initial study carried out on assembly line indicated some very obvious lapses in the
system. Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) was measured but not in a very effective
manner. In this report a new model for measuring OEE is presented with emphasis on
each of the three factors separately so that the actual problems should get immediate
focus during the group meetings. Automatic and manual inputs are presented separately
with a defined list of outputs. For recording quality problems, a quality analysis sheet is
presented. A stepwise TPM implementation plan is derived for line with time schedule.
Importance of management commitment is discussed. The pilot team building process is
discussed as it is a basic step for TPM plan. Pilot team should be motivated enough to
lead from the front. The necessary training should be provided to the pilot team. Training
module is also presented in the thesis. An autonomous maintenance plan is also derived
with checklists to strengthen TPM implementation. Each of the seven steps of
autonomous maintenance are described with a list of daily and weekly checks of the
equipments and whole assembly line. At the end of the report the work instructions for
work station 6 operator and the outman are written as an example.
Keywords: Total productive maintenance, Overall equipment effectiveness, 5S,
Autonomous maintenance, Preventive maintenance.
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Table of Contents
Dedication .......................................................................................................................... 1
Acknowledgements ........................................................................................................... 2
Abstract.............................................................................................................................. 3
Table of contents ............................................................................................................... 4
1 Introduction............................................................................................................... 6
1.1 Background of TPM ........................................................................................... 6
1.2 Company Presentation ........................................................................................ 6
1.3 Products............................................................................................................... 7
1.3.1 Purpose of brake adjusters .............................................................................. 7
1.3.2 Working of ABA............................................................................................. 7
1.3.3 Working of SABA ...........................................................................................8
1.4 Why TPM for Haldex Assembly Lines?............................................................. 9
1.5 Goal..................................................................................................................... 9
1.6 Scope................................................................................................................... 9
2 Methodology ............................................................................................................ 10
2.1 Overall Equipment Effectiveness ..................................................................... 10
2.2 Six big losses..................................................................................................... 10
2.2.1 Downtime losses ........................................................................................... 10
2.2.2 Speed losses .................................................................................................. 10
2.2.3 Quality losses............................................................................................. 10
2.3 5S ...................................................................................................................... 11
3 Data collection and Analysis .................................................................................. 13
3.1 Process flow chart for ABA and SABA ........................................................... 13
3.2 Current Value Stream Map of assembly line.................................................... 13
3.3 Cycle time calculation for each Work Station .................................................. 13
3.4 Root Causes Analysis Table ............................................................................. 14
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4 Proposed Implementation Plan for TPM ............................................................. 16
4.1 Step 1: Announcement of TPM and top management commitment............... 16
4.2 Step 2: Team building and meeting plan ........................................................ 16
4.3 Step 3: Launch a formal education program for selected team ...................... 17
4.4 Step 4: Establish basic TPM policies and quantifiable goals ......................... 18
4.5 Step 5: Outline a detailed master deployment plan ........................................ 18
4.6 Step 6: TPM training(for one month)and Kick-off......................................... 19
4.7 Step 7: Improvement effectiveness of each piece of equipment..................... 19
4.8 Step 8: Develop an autonomous maintenance program for operators ............ 19
4.9 Step 9: Develop a preventive maintenance plan............................................. 19
4.10 Step 10: Follow ups and Continuous improvement........................................ 19
5 Autonomous Maintenance...................................................................................... 20
5.1 What operators can do?..................................................................................... 20
5.2 Steps for Autonomous maintenance implementation ....................................... 20
5.3 Benefits of Autonomous maintenance.............................................................. 23
5.4 Autonomous maintenance check list ................................................................ 23
5.4.1 Daily checklist for each work station.......................................................... 23
5.4.2 Daily checklist for whole line..................................................................... 25
5.4.3 Weekly checklist for work stations............................................................. 26
5.4.4 Weekly checklist for whole line ................................................................. 26
6 Proposed Model for Data Collection..................................................................... 27
6.1 Major Problems with current data collection system........................................ 28
6.1.1 Problems with small stops data recording................................................... 28
6.1.2 Problems with breakdown data recording................................................... 28
6.1.3 Problems with quality control data recording ............................................. 28
6.2 Summery of Problems....................................................................................... 28
6.3 Proposed solution for data collection system.................................................... 29
6.3.1 Online data collection.................................................................................... 29
6.3.1.1 Limitation of model.............................................................................. 31
6.3.2 Quality problems data recording ................................................................... 31
References………………………………………………………….……………………32
Appendices....................................................................................................................... 33
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1 INTRODUCTION
The companies throughout the world are trying to improve their profit without increasing
the sale price of their products. This can only be done by minimizing the manufacturing
cost of the products by increasing the productivity and reducing losses during production.
Automation has played a great role in increasing productivity but it fails if the equipment
is not maintained properly.
The motivation of this particular thesis project was derived from the company, Haldex
Brake Products, ambitions to adopt the best set of practices in lean production. The
company has started its journey towards lean, by identifying the core values of the entire
business. The tools defined to support the business to focus on core values also include
implementation of Total Productive Maintenance in the manufacturing units.
Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) is a maintenance program which involves a newly
defined concept for maintaining production plants and equipment. The goal of the TPM
program is to markedly increase production while, at the same time, increasing employee
morale and job satisfaction.
1.1 Background of TPM
TPM originated from Japan as equipment management strategy designed to support the
total quality management strategy. In middle of 19th century, Japanese realized that
companies cannot produce a consistent quality product with poorly-maintained
equipment. It began in 1950s and focused primarily on preventive maintenance. As new
equipment was installed the focus was on implementing the preventive maintenance
recommendations by the equipment manufacturer. A high value was placed on equipment
that operated at designed specifications with no breakdowns. During 1960s, TPM focused
on productive maintenance, recognizing the importance of reliability, maintenance and
economic efficiency in plant design. Then in 1970s TPM evolved as a strategy focused on
achieving preventive maintenance efficiency through a comprehensive system based on
respect for individuals and total employee participation. It was at this time the word Total
was added to productive maintenance (Tokutaro Suzuki. 1994).
Seiichi Nakajima is regarded as father of TPM by many writers and professionals. He
pioneered the approach in Japan and exerted a major influence over the economic
progress made by Japanese manufacturers from the late 1970's. Today the international
focus on TPM is intensifying. The interest is expressed to support a company’s full
utilization of its assets.
1.2 Company Presentation
Haldex is an innovator in vehicle technology supplying proprietary systems and
components for commercial vehicles incorporating trucks and trailers, cars and industrial
vehicles, worldwide. Haldex has it’s headquarter in Stockholm, Sweden, and is listed on
the Stockholm Stock Exchange. Haldex has a yearly turnover of 8 bn SEK and employs
6,100 people worldwide.
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1.3 Products
Haldex offers a broad product range, including: ABS and EBS systems, compressors, air
dryers, regulating valves, brake actuators, automatic and manual brake adjusters, disc
brakes and friction material.
A uniquely wide range of services is available from Haldex. These include expert
consultancy for braking and suspension development, brake calculations, type approvals
and application engineering. The aim is accurate specification for manufacturers and low
cost of ownership for the operator.
The Group currently has 23 production facilities in Brazil, China, Germany, Great Britain,
Hungary, India, Mexico, Sweden and the USA. And Landskrona is one of them.
In Landskrona, there are three Operating Units with a total number of employees of 800.
1. Foundation Brake
• Automatic Brake Adjusters
• Disc Brakes
• Lining Wear Sensors
2. Traction
• Four Wheel Drive Systems
3. Alfdex
• Crank Case Gas Cleaning – Joint Venture with Alfa Laval
We worked in Automatic Brake Adjuster section in its final assembly area.
There are four assembly lines in the section namely: Wermtec 1, Wermtec 2, KK line and
Manual line. We had the task of TPM implementation on Wermtec 1 only.
1.3.1 Purpose of Automatic brake adjusters
The Haldex Automatic Brake Adjuster (ABA) maintains the optimum lining to drum
clearance. This ensures the shortest stopping distance possible for a safer, more reliable
vehicle. Without ABAs the brakes would require four to five manual brake adjustments a
year to maintain acceptable brake performance.
1.3.2 Working of ABA
The Haldex Adjuster is a clearance sensing brake adjuster that senses the lining to drum
clearance and adjusts, if necessary, on the release of the brake.
The Haldex ABA helps ensure maximum brake performance with minimal maintenance.
Backed by the longest warranty in the industry, they actually pay for themselves through
increased service life.
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Worldwide Market Share
Haldex Others
HALDEX
60%
Fig 1.1 Haldex ABA worldwide market share
1.3.3 Working of SABA
The new Haldex SABA is the latest innovation in brake adjustment. The unique SABA
Self-Setting Control arm design allows the control arm to be placed in any position, this
virtually eliminates any installation errors.
Fig 1.2 S-ABA Fig 1.3 ABA
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1.4 Why TPM for Haldex assembly lines?
The assembly lines of brake adjusters were achieving about 67% production rate
consistently. The goal was to improve it to 75%. We are calling it as production rate and
not OEE number because for OEE measurement, a very trustable data is required for the
time, speed and quality losses and current system for losses measurement was not good
enough. For focused improvement one must know that in which particular area he needs
more and quick attention. Only a trustable categorized data can depict such an area.
Concept of autonomous maintenance is important for improving equipment reliability. It
was much needed to be adopted in Haldex assembly lines. As a pillar of TPM,
autonomous maintenance plan is also worked out in our work.
1.5 Goal
The goal of the work was to study and analyze the assembly line WermTec1, and also to
suggest the ways to implement Total Productive Maintenance for maximizing equipment
effectiveness. It was divided into following parts:
• The losses during the production were to be pointed out and categorized into six
big losses of OEE and giving suggestions to decrease the losses.
• Developing a model for trustable data collecting model, depicting the losses
categorically for statistical analysis.
• Developing of a training module for TPM teams.
• Developing of Autonomous maintenance plan.
1.6 Scope
The project gives details about a time based stepwise implementation plan of TPM on
assembly line Werm Tec1. The necessary training material for operators according to
their level of education is also presented. A data collection model for statistical analysis
of losses is also proposed.
The online data collection mode only gives time losses automatically, while the material
losses are recorded manually.
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2 METHODOLOGY
To categorize each loss into six big losses defined in Overall Equipment Effectiveness
scale, for better clarification of problems and then suggesting improvements in
problematic areas using trainings, 5S and autonomous maintenance plan. Training of the
operators involved to improve their skills and better understanding of problems. And also
involvement of operators in routine maintenance tasks.
2.1 Overall Equipment Effectiveness
The OEE measure is a unique Key Performance Indicator which provides a holistic view
of asset utilisation. It drives an organisation to examine all aspects of asset performance
in order to ensure we are obtaining the maximum benefit from a piece of equipment that
is already bought and paid for.
OEE is simple and practical. It takes the most common and important sources of
manufacturing productivity loss, places them into three primary categories and distills
them into metrics that provide an excellent gauge for measuring where you are - and how
you can improve!
OEE is frequently used as a key metric in TPM (Total Productive Maintenance) and Lean
Manufacturing programs and gives a consistent way to measure the effectiveness of TPM
and other initiatives by providing an overall framework for measuring production
efficiency.
The first application of OEE can be traced to the late 1960’s when it was used by Seiichi
Nakajima at Nippon Denso as a key metric in TPM (Total Productive Maintenance).
According to Nakajima S. 1989, “TPM is a plant improvement methodology, which
enables continuous and rapid improvement of the manufacturing process through the use of
employee involvement, employee empowerment and closed-loop measurement of results.”
2.2 Six Big Losses
2.2.1 Downtime losses
1. Unexpected breakdowns
2. Machine setup and adjustments
2.2.2 Speed losses
3. Idling and minor stoppages
4. Reduced speed
2.2.3 Quality losses
5. Process defects
6. Scrap and rework
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Fig 2.1 Overall Equipment Effectiveness diagram
2.3 5S
5S is a system to reduce waste and optimize productivity through maintaining an orderly
workplace and using visual cues to achieve more consistent operational results.
Implementation of this method "cleans up" and organizes the workplace basically in its
existing configuration, and it is typically the first lean method which organizations
implement.
Fig 2.2 5S philosophy
Theoratical output
Actual output
Actual output
Good output
Available operational time
Available time Not sheduled
Time losses
Speed losses
Quality losses
Total time
Sort
Identify needed
items
Keep workplace
swept and clean
Shine
Sustain
Make a habit of
maintaining
procedures
Set in order
Make a place
For every thing
Put standards in
place and monitor
Standardize
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• Seiri - Sort - the first step in making things cleaned up and organized
• Seiton - Set In Order - organize, identify and arrange everything in a work area
• Seoso - Shine - regular cleaning and maintenance
• Seiketsu- Standardize - make it easy to maintain - simplify and standardize
• Shitsuke -Sustain -maintaining what has been accomplished
The 5S pillars, provide a methodology for organizing, cleaning, developing, and
sustaining a productive work environment. In the daily work of a company, routines that
maintain organization and orderliness are essential to a smooth and efficient flow of
activities. This lean method encourages workers to improve their working conditions and
helps them to learn to reduce waste, unplanned downtime, and in-process inventory.
A typical 5S implementation would result in significant reductions in the square footage
of space needed for existing operations. It also would result in the organization of tools
and materials into labeled and color coded storage locations, as well as "kits" that contain
just what is needed to perform a task.
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3 DATA COLLECTION AND ANALYSIS
3.1 Process flow chart for ABA and SABA
There are three main components in brake adjusters: Housing, Worm Wheel and Worm
Screw.
1. Housings; are imported from Spain in particular batches and machined in the
machining area to get required dimensions. Then these are heat treated and then sent
to paint house. From paint house the painted batches are set on the wrecks in the
super market and specific batch is taken from there to assembly line when required.
There is Kanban used between paint shop, heat treatment and machining.
2. Worm Wheels; are bought in castings and are then machined into many different
models according to the requirement. The worm wheels are sent outside of the factory
to a contractor for heat treatment. After that these are treated for surface smoothness
in the plant. Then the wheels are placed in wrecks in super market and are carried to
the assembly line when required. There is Kanban system between super market and
surface smoothing section.
3. Worm Screws; are bought in shapes of rods and are cut and machined into two
desired models. These are also sent to contractor for heat treatment. These are then
carried to the assembly area where there is a marked place for both the models. And
from there these are carried to the line when required.
The rest of the parts are either preassembled first and put on the wrecks in supermarket or
directly from main store to wrecks and then are carried to assembly lines when required.
3.2 Current Value Stream Map of assembly line
A current state VSM was made to find the bottle neck. So cycle times for each manual
and automatic stations were calculated. For cycle times, mean of 40 readings was taken
for each operation. Station 3b was observed to be having the maximum operation time
and hence was the pace maker. But it shifted to manual station 4 some times when the
Adjuster arm has more then 3 bushings and if there is no extra operator.
Production plans are made on every week on shift wise planning. The assembly line
receives the plans daily and the material is brought to the line as per plan.
One critical observation made during current state mapping showed that the work on
different work stations is not balanced. This creates a lot of troubles in implementing
single piece flow. So a study should be done on line balancing as well.
3.3 Cycle time calculations
Ten readings were taken from each of the four shifts and the mean was considered as the
average cycle time for each of manual and automatic work stations. Stop watch was used
for recording times.
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3.4 Root cause analysis table
A root cause analysis table was made to investigate the reasons of production time losses
and their duration. Four problems were categorized having different reasons.
1. Equipment Problems; included problems with the conveyer and the machines 3b, 4b,
5c, 6a, 6b, 6c and any other machine.
2. Part Problems; included passing and re-passing of defective parts.
3. Operator busy in other tasks; included fixing defective parts, bringing parts to be
assembled to their respective work station, removal of filled boxes from WS 6 and
bringing empty ones when the out man is no in sight.
4. Operator idle time; means the operator being idle for a time more than the cycle time
of the pace maker or the part is waiting to be processed but there is no operator. This
is very normal for a minute or two when the operators change their positions which
they have to after every 90 minutes.
The study was carried out in all four shifts for two continuous hours in each. Two persons
standing on either side of the line with the stop watches noted down whenever there was
a stop on any station lasting more than the process cycle time. The tables were filled and
the results were presented on bar graphs which showed a regular trend in each shift. In
every shift ‘no operator’ emerged as the biggest problem, both in frequency and also the
duration. Overall trend was the following graph;
Fig 3.1 Problem trends
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From the study of root cause analysis, it was clear that small stops are the most time
wasting. And among those the stops due to the operators were the most. One notable
thing is that when such stops happened, these were not documented or noted although
such stops were the biggest reason for time loss. Operators were not much trained to get
bothered about such losses. So, on the basis of such facts we decided to work on two
different pillars for our project.
One was the stepwise implementation plan for Total Productive Maintenance including
the training module and the second pillar was to work on a data collection model to
record such stops for statistical analysis of problems.
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4 PROPOSED IMPLEMENTATION PLAN FOR TPM
The implementation of TPM was necessary to increase the sense of ownership of
equipment among the operators and developing their interest in work. The goal of
increasing production can be achieved by active participation of operators.
A 10 step implementation plan was written.
4.1 Step 1: Announcement of TPM and top management commitment
Make all the employees aware of the change of shifting towards the new culture of TPM.
Upper management commitment is the key to start with. By commitment we mean the
sacrifice of short term goals in pursue of long term goals. The management must be ready
to spare operators for trainings and meetings when required. The management must also
be ready to invest in buying necessary equipments and accessories if required.
According to Moran and Avergun (1997), change is top-down and bottom-up. It must be
top-down to provide vision and create structure; and it must be bottom-up to encourage
participation and generate support. Ultimately, leading change is a shared responsibility
of everyone in an organization, from top to bottom. To bring in changes, the managers
have to prepare themselves to the changes before asking their employees to adopt the
changes. Top management must be able to create an environment that effectively reduces
or eliminate the fear for change. The management also must provide their employees with
proper tools, techniques and other facilities to allow people to synthesize the new
concepts, and align them to the new way of working. Firms must have top management
support, understanding and commitment to embark on the TPM program as it involves a
cultural change that cannot happen overnight. Hoffman and Mehra (1999) in their study
described that the all four scholars; Deming, Juran, Crosby and Garvin, link top
management involvement and commitment to both productivity and quality improvement
programs.
The responsibility of the top management is to actively promote motivation, ability and
favorable work environment (Nakajima, 1989). Of these three keys, motivation and
ability will be the responsibility of the workers and that the creation of favorable work
environment will be the responsibility of the management.
It would be good sign of commitment and involvement from upper management, if one
of the top level managers, like Vice President, present at the TPM launching ceremony.
4.2 Step 2: Pilot Team building and meeting plan
This step needs a lot of care from management who build teams, as team is a group of
people who are jointly responsible for achieving a shared goal. If one member fails then it
can hinder the achievement of the collective goal. Even if the members fulfill their
individual roles but they don't work in a cooperative manner, then they may not fulfill
their potential or achieve as much as they could. Moreover the pilot team will work like a
model for the rest of the teams to join so the members selected should be highly
motivated to learn and implement new ideas, ready to adopt changes in working practices
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and should be made clear about the goal. Share with them that the company is beginning
a very important event. Also tell them that TPM will allow them to make their work
easier, safer and more efficient. Tell them that in the new system, the most important
thing is their opinions, points of view and active participation, and that those who decide
to participate will receive training that will allow them to have a bigger decision making
role. After sharing this information with them, ask them if it would interest them to have
the opportunity to participate. Only if their response is affirmative, consider inviting them
to the pilot group training.
On the assembly line WermTec 1, a total of eight operators work. Six of them work on
the 6 work stations, one is a reliever (each operator has a fifteen minutes break after every
ninety minutes of work) and one is outman whose duties involve feeding of housings,
worm wheels, worm screws and cover plates to their responding work stations. Outman is
also responsible for preparation of worm wheels. These eight persons are directly
reporting to a team leader who also in charge of three other assembly lines.
So the pilot team can consist of eight persons for the line, one team leader of their shift,
the production manager and maintenance manager. The production manager and
maintenance manager should be present at meetings. So the team comes out as:
8 operators
1 team leader
1 maintenance person
Production Manager
Maintenance Manager
This group will to promote and sustain TPM activities. In the beginning, weekly 1 hour
meeting of the group should be organized for 1 month, after a successful start, the
meeting can be held fortnightly, to assess the progress.
4.3 Step 3: Launch a formal training program for selected team
According to Jeffrey K. Liker (2004) “Teams do not do value added work, Individuals do.
The teams coordinate the work, motivate and learn from each other. The teams suggest
innovative ideas. Nevertheless, for the most part, it is more efficient for the individuals to
do the actual detailed work necessary to produce a product”.
So the individual excellence and the team effectiveness should be balanced. For
individual excellence, a training program should be held for in depth understanding of
technical knowledge and a broad range of skills.
Nakajima (1989) mentioned that, to carry out the TPM activities, a company needs
persons with strong maintenance and equipment-related skills. This is because one of the
important goals of TPM is to raise workers’ skill levels and this only can be done if there
is thorough and continuous training.
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The training program should include the basic knowledge of following:
• What is TPM?
A brief description about total productive maintenance, its advantages and challenges
to adopt it, implementation plan and how to measure TPM, should be given.
• Knowledge about OEE
As being the true measure of TPM, operators should understand that what is
overall equipment effectiveness and how is it calculated.
• Knowledge about 5S
What are different 5S and how they are implemented systematically to improve
productivity, quality and safety?
• Categorization of losses into six big losses of OEE
It is extremely important that the operators should know the losses categorically
so that they can take care of each one of them.
• Knowledge about VSM (takt time and bottle neck)
The current state value stream map should be shown to tell operators about the
bottleneck and cycle times at each station so that they can work accordingly. The
importance to know the exact takt time should be delivered to the operators.
• Knowledge about optimization of WIP (work in process)
• Basic training for preventive maintenance
“Cleaning is maintaining”. Everyday cleaning of equipment means everyday
monitoring of equipment. It works like condition monitoring. Whenever there is a
need for an equipment to be maintained is very easy to find before breakdown.
4.4 Step 4: Establish basic TPM policies and quantifiable goals
During the meetings the group should analyze the existing conditions and set goals which
are specific, measurable, realistic and time based.
In early weeks the improvements should be assessed on the basis of trustable data. Ideas
from the team members should be taken on further improvements and discussed to come
up with some goals for the next meeting.
4.5 Step 5: Outline a detailed master deployment plan
After 3 months of start of pilot team, the team should develop a detailed master plan for
both WT1 and WT2. The group should also derive a preliminary TPM implementation
plan for KK line and the manual line, if possible. The plan should take care of following
things:
1. Revised training requirements for operators.
2. Revised preventive maintenance plan for WermTec 1 and preliminary preventive
maintenance plans for the rest of lines.
3. Need for new technology or equipment.
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4.6 Step 6: TPM training (for one month) and Kick-off
According to the recommendations of pilot team, new teams should be formed for each
line and their training should be started. After a month of training the official Kick off for
TPM implementation for every line should take place with a small ceremony to
emphasize its importance. This ceremony must involve people from higher management.
The training should include: basic knowledge about equipment for operators, it can be
internal training held by maintenance persons. After basic training of employees, kick-off
with the plan chalked out in step 5 by making TPM teams on every line.
4.7 Step 7: Improvement effectiveness of each piece of equipment
The teams should have weekly meeting in the beginning to analyze each piece of
equipment separately on the basis of collected data and make recommendations for
necessary improvements to be analyzed again at next meeting. The meeting should work
according to PDCA cycle: which is Plan, Do, Check and Act.
4.8 Step 8:Develop an autonomous maintenance program for operators
After 1 month of kick-off the teams should be able to make autonomous maintenance1
plan for their lines which includes routine cleaning and inspection that will help stabilize
machine conditions.
4.9 Step 9: Develop a preventive maintenance plan
After 3 months of kick-off, review the preventive maintenance plan for every equipment
and change it accordingly.
4.10 Step 10: Follow ups and Continuous improvement
Refine measurement process, carry out scoping study, gap analysis and accountabilities,
periodically. Align short, medium and long-term goals under a single change
agenda/master plan.
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Autonomous maintenance plan is derived in chapter 5 with daily and weekly checklist of each work
station but it should be reviewed by the groups for necessary changes.
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5 AUTONOMOUS MAINTENANCE
Tokutaro Suzuki (1994) writes as:
TPM improves corporate business results and creates pleasant and productive
workplace by changing the way people think about and work with equipment throughout
the company. Autonomous maintenance (maintenance performed by production
department) is one of the most important basic building blocks of TPM program.
Autonomous maintenance is an important TPM Pillar which emphasizes the importance
of the machine operator.
Historically, maintenance has been done by dedicated, highly skilled employees. But
machine operators are around the equipment all of the time, and should be the first to
identify oil/grease and air leaks and vibrations because of lose nuts and bolts.
5.1 What operators can do?
So the operators should work closely together with the maintenance people, and they can
do this in 3 ways:
1. They can alert maintenance people
2. They can provide excellent information
3. They can perform routine maintenance
Autonomous Maintenance is a critical first step of TPM, and operators must be trained to
close the gap between them and the maintenance staff, making it easier for both to work
as one team.
5.2 Steps for AM implementation
Seven steps are implemented to progressively increase operator’s knowledge,
participation and responsibility for their equipment. The steps start with the initial
cleaning proceeding towards full self management. Steps 1 to 3 place priority on
abolishing environments that cause accelerated deterioration, reversing deterioration and
establishing and maintaining basic equipment conditions. The goals of these steps are to
get operators interested in their equipment and help them shake off their self image as
mere button pushers or switch flickers. In steps 4 and 5, operators are taught about
inspection procedures. The goals of these steps are to reduce failures and develop
operators who thoroughly understand their equipment. Last two steps are designed to
upgrade autonomous maintenance and improvement activities by standardizing systems
and methods. The ultimate goal of these steps is a robust organization and culture in
which every workplace is full of self management.
1. Performing an initial cleaning and inspection
We have developed a list of daily and weekly inspection and cleaning for each work
station and the whole line as well, with the help of maintenance persons. Eliminate
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dust and dirt from the main body of the equipment. Expose irregularities such as
minor defects, inaccessible places and contamination sources. Eliminate unnecessary
and seldom used items and simplify the equipment.
2. Establishing countermeasures for the causes and effects of dirt and dust
Fig 5.1 Tag for marking equipment abnormality
Fig 5.2 Tag for marking abnormality
TPM (Autonomous maintenance)
Equipment Number ____________________________
Date found ____________________________________
Found by ____________________________________
Date ________________________________
Description of problem
_____________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________
Red Tag (Maintenance)
Attach this tag to the equipment
TPM (Autonomous maintenance)
Equipment Number ____________________________
Date found ____________________________________
Found by ___________________________________
Date ________________________________
Description of problem
_____________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________
White Tag
Attach this tag to the equipment
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The key part in this step is not to clean for the sake of cleaning, but clean to inspect.
As the team begins to clean they will identify defects. It can be wear and tear in
equipment, lose or lost nuts and bolts due to vibrations, lubricant leakages or dirt and
dust on machine parts which hide the parts to be inspected. The causes of such defects
or problems should be found and countermeasures should be taken. The defects can
be divided into two different categories, the first kind of defects are those which can
be corrected by the operators themselves, while the second kind of defects are those
which can only be corrected by maintenance. According to Tokutaro Suzuki (1994),
using tag cards can be a good idea for such purposes.
Tag the location of each abnormality as it is spotted, using a card that shows when it
was found, who found it and nature of the problem. This enables everyone to see what
is going on and share in the activities. Use white tags for problems that operators can
handle and red tags for ones that the maintenance department will handle. Tagging
takes problems out of individual autonomous maintenance circles and involves
everyone.
3. Establishing cleaning and routine maintenance standards (checklist)
The list made by us should be reviewed by the TPM team and new cleaning and
maintenance standards should be set which should include countermeasures for root
causes of defects and cleaning routine of dusty parts. Formulate work standards that
help in maintaining cleaning, lubrication and tightening levels with minimal time and
effort.
4. Conducting a "standards and inspection" training
The training should emphasize on standards of inspection for example the visual
inspection of major parts, modification of equipment to aid inspection, finding and
fixing minor defects. Inspection manuals should be developed and followed for the
training.
5. Carrying out an autonomous equipment inspection
Cleaning, lubrication and inspection standards should be practiced to maintain
optimal equipment conditions. A review of equipment and human factor should be
carried out to fix problems.
6. Organization and standardization of the workplace
Improve work effectiveness, product quality and safety through work place
organization and housekeeping. Set and practice control standards for raw material,
WIP, tools and spare parts.
7. Continuous improvement of policies, standards and equipment
Pinpoint the weaknesses in equipment and give suggestions in meetings to improve
them to simplify the operations and increase reliability.
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5.3 Benefits of AM
Autonomous maintenance will give the following main benefits:
1. The operators experience a sense of pride and ownership of their machines.
2. Machines and work areas are safer and easier to work around.
3. Breakdowns, defects and other losses are reduced.
5.4 AM list for checks
5.4.1 Daily checklist for each work station
Daily maintenance list:
Station 1:
1. Clean the sensor.
Station 2:
1. Check the torque.
2. Clean the corner between station 2 and station 3 daily (specially the green belt)
Fig 5.3 Corner between station 2 and 3
Station 3:
1. Clean the standing plate up and down; ensure that there are no screws, nipples etc.
2. Clean the under face of model check.
3. Clean the cylinder in station 3B, ensure there is no grease.
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Fig 5.4 Clean the cylinder
4. Keep the rails of the conveyer clean, especially under 3B.
Fig 5.5 Keep the conveyer and under clean
5. Check the hydraulic oil, no air bubbles.
Station 4:
1. Keep the 4A turning system clean.
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2. Check the spring in the hammer (for rivet).
3. Check the spring press bar.
4. Clean the table in the serial number press machine.
Station 5:
1. Clean the under face of model check.
2. Clean the grease machine head, and use hand to feel, if it is ok or not.
3. Check is the main grease machine, leaking or not?
4. Clean the sensor on the bush pressing handle.
5. Clean the corner of between 5 and 6 daily, especially the green belt.
Fig 5.6 Grease machine head
Station 6:
1. Clean the under face of model check.
2. Keep the rails of the conveyer clean, especially the screw machine and final testing
machine.
5.4.2 Daily checklist for whole line
1. Check the sensors, keep all of them clean.
2. Check all the screws are tight.
3. Check leakages.
4. Check the leakage of lubrication.
5. Keep all the buttons clean.
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Fig 5.7 Keep buttons clean
5.4.3 Weekly check list for work stations
Station 5:
1. Check the bit of the screw machine, if it is ok or not?
2. Clean the around of the screw box, ensure that there are no screws on the table.
3. Take the nose out and clean it.
4. Clean the track of the feeder pot.
5. Check the white pipe, ensure that is not bended.
Station 6:
1. Take the nose out and clean it.
2. Clean the track of the feeder pot.
3. Check the blue pipe, ensure that is not bended.
5.4.4 Weekly checklist for whole line
1. Keep all the line clean.
2. Keep all the pallets clean.
3. Check all the alarm.
4. Check the hydraulic oil level.
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6 PROPOSED MODEL FOR DATA COLLECTION
Establishing a data collection model should be seen as a fundamental step at the start of
any improvement activity. The statistical analysis of a data collection process is
compulsory for the project teams to efficiently and accurately measure and establish a
baseline of current performance and also quantifying later improvements. The reason
behind a lot of failed improvement projects is the lack of accurate and timely
information.
6.1 Problems with current data collection system
6.1.1 Problems with small stops data recording
When we did a study for root cause analysis, we noticed that there are a lot of small stops
which are never recorded. And normally the stops were repeating on the same equipments
due to same reason again and again. These small interruptions were wasting the most of
the production time but the management did not exactly know those because there was no
data collection system which could show the frequency or duration of such stops.
6.1.2 Problems with breakdown data recording
Also we got the data for breakdowns for which Haldex uses the system Tekla. After going
through that data, we came to the conclusion that the data was not trustable at all because
it was totally manual and dependent on operators. Apparently the operators were not
using Tekla properly because they were not trained enough to use that. This data was very
important not only for OEE but also for maintenance department for budgeting.
6.1.3 Problems with quality control data recording
Losses in quality are the most critical for any process. So to reduce the losses in quality,
the root causes leading to bad quality should be taken care of. Trustable data is necessary
for the analysis and improvement. The concept of single time pass was not followed and
it was quite normal to re pass a part through a machine for more than one time before
taking that to the fixing station. There was record keeping for the number of parts scraped
but there was no record keeping for the problems or defects which led for the part to be
scrapped. Also the parts which were not ok in first attempt but were ok after rework were
not documented.
6.2 Summary of problems
We can summarize the above discussion by pointing out the main problems which need
to be solved:
1. Tekla and the assembly line were not directly connected. Tekla was 100 percent
dependent on workers i.e. operators and technicians.
Currently it works as follows:
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Whenever there is a breakdown, the operator responsible at that station logs in the
system Tekla and presses a command which tells the system that the line has stopped
and technician is called to fix the problem. The system records that time as the start of
down time. The technician arrives, fixes the problem and logs in the system and
writes the description of the problem occurred and whatever he did to solve that or if
he replaced some parts. After that when the line is again started the operator is
supposed to log in again and tell the system that the line has started. Then the system
knows the total downtime of the line due to breakdown.
Worker
Fig 6.1 Current use of Tekla
But the last step from operator was always missing. Also many times the technician
was too busy to log in as he had to rush to some other machine. This led to a
breakdown data which was extremely unreliable. For example according to Tekla,
there were only 12 breakdowns in the whole month of September and the number of
breakdowns is 5 in October on wermtec1. While this number is 23 in the month of
May.
So the three time manual input was required for one breakdown.
2. The plan for production line is to step up the OEE from 66% to 75% but it seems like
an ambition only unless the different losses are categorized. When the different loss
causes are known then they can be worked out. The improvement work should start
from the biggest one. According to our study, small interruptions were the biggest
contributors to the time losses. These small losses were not registered and hence
required an automatic registration. The equipment’s operational status is required in
order to obtain a complete picture of shorter, reoccurring stoppages. Short, frequent
interruptions, which may sometimes be interpreted as a part of the machine’s normal
behavior, amount to a big loss in production time in the end.
Assembly line Tekla
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6.3 Solutions for data collection system
6.3.1 Online data collection
Reliable data is an essential support for continues improvement. The equipment and
different manual steps of assembly should be monitored closely. Online data should be
recorded and analyzed statistically after certain time periods.
The two main above mentioned problems must be solved and we have laid down a simple
data collection model for this purpose.
The system Tekla is made more efficient by reduction of manual data entry dependency
and its role is extended by connecting the critical equipment and manual stations with it.
The model generates following statistics automatically:
• Line status in real time
• Each machine’s operational status in real time
• Breakdown times (number of occurrences and durations)
• Small stop times (number of occurrences and durations)
• Disruptions
• Produced parts
• Losses
We define these terms as:
1. Every machine on the line has light signals which are green when the machine is
running without any problem. But whenever there is a technical problem the red light
glows. That signal of red light can be taken and used in the system.
2. Breakdowns and small stops can be differentiated in two manners. One way is the
duration. A break point time can be set for example if a stop is less than three minutes,
it is recorded as small stop and if it is more than three minutes then recorded as
breakdown. The second manner can be like if the problem is fixed by he operator
himself/herself and technician was not called, this can be regarded as small stop.
Otherwise if the technician is called then it falls in breakdown category.
3. Small stops are not only connected to equipment but also to the manual work stations.
Presently on the conveyer, a pallet comes to a work station and stops by a stopper.
Operator, after finishing his/her job presses a green button to release the part. That
green button signal is taken and used in the system but with two presses, one when
the pallet arrives and the other when it is released. Cycle time for each work station is
defined and if the time interval between two presses exceeds the cycle time then it is
recorded as either small stop or disruption.
4. Disruptions are closely related to small stops. The pace maker of the line is machine
3b which takes 27 seconds for its process. Other machines and manual stations have
smaller cycle times some of them have even 10 seconds. So if such a machine or
work station with 10 seconds cycle time stops, it can afford stop for 17 seconds
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without affecting the production output. These kind of small stops are called
disruptions.
Cycle time of station + stop time < 27 seconds (cycle time of pace maker)
Disruptions also need to be recorded to analyze the small problems faced by any
machine or operator.
5. The number of parts produced per hour or per shift.
6. Time losses are presented and compared for different stations.
Fig 6.2 Data collection model showing direct machine signal input, manual input from
computer and input from pressing of button by operator. The status of line can be seen
on the computer system. The results from the database should be presented in group
meetings.
DATABASE
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Following manual input is also needed for complete reports:
• Breakdown cause and remedial action taken
• Material loss
• Change of batch
1. In the case of a breakdown, the technician has to enter a report showing the cause
of breakdown, the action taken, number of working hours and parts changed if
any.
2. The model does not take direct inputs from material loss. So if there is any
material to be scraped, it should go through a manual procedure defined in
Quality problem data recording.
3. Whenever there is a change in batch, it has to be entered in the system to trace out
if there is a problem with any particular station when a particular batch is being
produced.
6.3.1.1 Limitation of model
This model does not record the quality losses in the form of material loss or scrapped.
There is a manual procedure for the quality problems consisting of a quality analysis
sheet(Appendix A) which is originally developed by Mr. Anders who is in charge of six
sigma projects in Haldex.
Only duration and frequency of stoppage time of equipment is directly recorded but the
reasons of stoppage have to be added manually for some machines.
Difference in skill level of operators can also limit the use of the model.
6.3.2 Quality problems data recording
Quality problems are recorded manually. Each part which is to be scrapped has to go
through a quality analysis sheet for defective parts. Whenever there is a problem with
some part, it is taken to the manual line by the out man who fixes the problem. He has to
fill the sheet and sign it.
The operator on the line should fill the week, shift, serial number, part number and
possible cause of failure of the part and sign the sheet.
While the out man should take that part to manual line and check if the problem can be
solved without dismantling of part. And if it has to be dismantled at repair bench and
some sub part has to be replaced, it should be noted down and also should be noted that if
the defected part can be reused or scraped. Note batch number and part number. Remove
the stub card and put together with defected item in a bag and then in the “repair box” if
it can be reused, otherwise put the part in scrap box.
This sheet must be filled whenever there is a problem with the part which can not be
fixed by the operator in first attempt. Kept in record and analyzed during meetings.
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Appendix A Quality analysis sheet for defective parts
week____ shift ____
Wermtec Line 1
B/N ___________
P/N___________
Possible cause of failure
_____________________________________________________________________
Manual Line (test if the brake adjuster is ok)
OK
NOT OK
If not ok, dismantle and investigate possible cause of failure at the repair
bench.
_____________________________________________________________________
Repair bench (Dismantle, change and tick defected item)
Tick defected item
House
Worm shaft
Worm wheel
One-way clutch
Bearing
Other (mention)
______________________________________________
Note (if defected item is scraped or reused):
______________________________________________
Note B/N and P/N below. Remove the stub card and put together with defected item in a
bag and then in the “repair box” if it can be reused, otherwise put the part in scrap box.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
S/N ___________
P/N ___________
Sign
Sign
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Appendix B Defective part flow chart
Not
If OK
N
Y
Manual line
test by
Repair line: define and
solve the problems;
House, worm shaft,
worm wheel, bar
coupling, bearing,
screw-thread missing
Scrap
Writes down the
possible cause of
failure
Operator remove
defective part
Put back to the
original batch
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Appendix C Work Instructions for WS 6 operator and Outman
Why are effective work instructions important?
Work instruction is the most basic tool used in this line to help the employee follow a
sequence of steps. Inadequate work instructions could result in returned product, loss of
materials, decreased OEE etc. Work instructions can have a major impact on any
management system effectiveness. If instructions are difficult to follow, the operator will
make errors in implementing the steps. Optimizing operating instructions can definitely
lead to a better quality and quantity of the products.
Definition of work instruction:
Work instruction is a detailed sequence of steps that an operator needs to follow each
time when he/she perform a task. The purpose of a work instruction is to organize steps in
a logical format so that an operator can easily follow it independently.
WS 6 instructions:
1) Take the house from the pallet.
2) Send the pallet to WS1 by pressing green button.
3) Assemble pin if necessary.
4) Clean the house, check the stamp (G) on back lock.
5) Check control instructions “9800608” 1.1—1.8.
6) If it is a new batch, then, check control instruction “9800608” from 1.1—2.6 for first
three parts and from fourth part, back to the fifth step.
7) Place the brake adjuster in the pallet according to the packing instruction
No.20001640 or 20033440.
8) When the batch is finished, sign the pink sheet.
9) If 6A stops, then, operator should screw manually and if the problem occurs
frequently, call the maintenance to fix the problem.
10) If 6B has a problem, call the maintenance at once, and return the cover arm manually
while waiting for the maintenance person comes.
11) If the part is defective and can’t be fixed at WS6, fill the nonconformance report and
place the part in the trolley.
Out man instructions:
1) Get the order in a file.
2) Bring housings to WS1 and cover plate to WS5.
3) Prepare worm wheels with rings and transport to WS1, number of worm wheels
should be equal to Number of housings.
4) Move the empty boxes in WS1 to special packing area.
5) Move the final products to the packing place and prepare the empty box for WS6,
after finishing of the batch, enter information in computer database.
6) Move empty worm screw boxes from empty box area to machine hall and bring filled
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boxes to filled boxes area.
7) Repair the defective parts placed at any station.
8) Fix the nipple which in WS1 and control (8---10N/m) it 5/shift, fill and sign the log
note.
9) Control the house 3/shift on master testing machine, fill and sign the compare
measurement file.