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09-10-2014 11:32 PM
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Manufacturing Methodologies / Quality Concepts for Injection Molding
I am currently researching ISO 9000:13485, Six Sigma, Kaizen, Lean Manufacturing, Kaizen - Continous Improvement, to come up with some recommendations for my organization.
Any input will be greatly appreciated.
Ines
09-11-2014 01:57 AM
Top #2
Hi! Ines Avila,
Our customers follow "condition based monitoring" (CBM) for managing the health of injection molding machines. You may try that out . .
Regards,
swamy
Our customers follow "condition based monitoring" (CBM) for managing the health of injection molding machines. You may try that out . .
Regards,
swamy
09-11-2014 04:36 AM
Top #3
Ines,
All the items listed above are great tools and each has a specific purpose and many times they are all used at one point in time during the improvement process. To start a company should have a ISO system in place, that creates a foundation for ensuring product quality. A quality system provides a guideline or road map for everyone to follow. Then a company will venture out in the Lean, six sigma, kaizen area for continuous improvement. That's when the real fun starts data collection, analyzing and implementing action plans. They are all good techniques and tools and one has to be flexible when tackling problems. After you get involved in these processes you will see that ultimately most of this comes down to common sense. In order for injection molders in the US to be competitive we all have to become more efficient. We have to find those non value added activities and eliminate them. Get rid of the wastes, or as lean mfg says the 7 deadly wastes. But first a good quality system has to be in place then its time to find areas that need improvement and then use those tools above to solve them. One key point to remember is that you need support from the top, if the top person in the organization does not fully support these efforts the process will fail. Lean manufacturing is a journey that never ends. A couple of good books to read are, "The Goal" and "Lean Thinking", there are many more but those two just came to mind.
All the items listed above are great tools and each has a specific purpose and many times they are all used at one point in time during the improvement process. To start a company should have a ISO system in place, that creates a foundation for ensuring product quality. A quality system provides a guideline or road map for everyone to follow. Then a company will venture out in the Lean, six sigma, kaizen area for continuous improvement. That's when the real fun starts data collection, analyzing and implementing action plans. They are all good techniques and tools and one has to be flexible when tackling problems. After you get involved in these processes you will see that ultimately most of this comes down to common sense. In order for injection molders in the US to be competitive we all have to become more efficient. We have to find those non value added activities and eliminate them. Get rid of the wastes, or as lean mfg says the 7 deadly wastes. But first a good quality system has to be in place then its time to find areas that need improvement and then use those tools above to solve them. One key point to remember is that you need support from the top, if the top person in the organization does not fully support these efforts the process will fail. Lean manufacturing is a journey that never ends. A couple of good books to read are, "The Goal" and "Lean Thinking", there are many more but those two just came to mind.
09-11-2014 07:20 AM
Top #4
Ines,
I would recomend using lean principals into your work place. They are highly effective when implementing plant improvments. They can be the basis of a Kaizen program for your facility along with some teams formed to adress improvment ideas. Prior to going to lean principals plant wide, it is common to implement a 5S system which gives you basic molding cell organization and prepares your organization for changes that will be coming. ISO certification is a large and complicated undertaking and hard to do unless the underlying organization and culture of improvemnt are in place. Six-Sigma has a lot in common with lean proncipals and is good to add onto a lean program once basic processes are established and measurments can be made.
I would recomend then 5S, Lean+Kaizen, Six-sigma enhancements, and finally ISO certification to document new and established systems.
I am curenty assisting molding companies on this process so feel free to e mail me with any questions.
John Mallon
I would recomend using lean principals into your work place. They are highly effective when implementing plant improvments. They can be the basis of a Kaizen program for your facility along with some teams formed to adress improvment ideas. Prior to going to lean principals plant wide, it is common to implement a 5S system which gives you basic molding cell organization and prepares your organization for changes that will be coming. ISO certification is a large and complicated undertaking and hard to do unless the underlying organization and culture of improvemnt are in place. Six-Sigma has a lot in common with lean proncipals and is good to add onto a lean program once basic processes are established and measurments can be made.
I would recomend then 5S, Lean+Kaizen, Six-sigma enhancements, and finally ISO certification to document new and established systems.
I am curenty assisting molding companies on this process so feel free to e mail me with any questions.
John Mallon
09-11-2014 10:08 AM
Top #5
I think you are on right track, ISO will give your compaany dicipline and the database through which you can choose control tools mentioned by others one by one ..
09-11-2014 05:45 PM
Top #6
Hello Ines
In our company in Brazil we got ISO 9001 and now going Six Sigma.
Regards
Timur
In our company in Brazil we got ISO 9001 and now going Six Sigma.
Regards
Timur
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