Quality measurement in lean manufacturing

Abstract

Nowadays, many of the industrial companies use the most popular programs Lean Six Sigma in their production, management, and others especially in manufacturing company. Lean Six Sigma is an organizational philosophy of applying relentless efforts to drive waste out of the organization at every level and improve product quality to the level of only 3.4 defects per million opportunities and both lean manufacturing and six sigma work towards meeting customer's needs by delivering products without defects. This is an effective approach to determine where improvement necessary. This paper is about evaluating the effectiveness of using the Lean Six Sigma in manufacturing industries and researcher are focus to only one company, beside improve productivity and optimize quality. Data of the implementation were compared using the control chart and the level of effectiveness can be measured either it is effective or not in reducing the defects in manufacturing industry. This study resulting the effective of Lean Six Sigma in manufacturing industry and show how it works by the implementation and improvement.