Six Sigma Manufacturing at Intercim

Posted by: meikah | 2 November 2005 | 5:56 am

Intercim is a leading organization that helps electronic manufacturers improve their productivity and quality through efficient operational processes and improved quality management.

Recently, it adopted a new program that can work well together with Six Sigma manufacturing. The system is called Intercim MES and this entry will talk about how MES facilitates Six Sigma Manufacturing.

It is already a common knowledge that increasing process capability through continuous process improvement is the driving force for a business to achieve Six Sigma manufacturing. Now with the Intercim MES, an organization will be able to collect and process the data that is necessary to do the following:

1. Determine that a process is “in-control.”
2. Support continuous improvement of that process to reduce the PPM defective to a level that is cost effective and consistent with the business plan.
3. Drive all manufacturing processes to Six Sigma.

The Intercim MES minimizes data entry time and data entry errors with flexible user configuration, auto-population of fields from integration interfaces, and unattended data collection. More importantly, it can provide on-line SPC information, which enables operators respond immediately to any data collection or need. As a result, they can determine SPC trends and out-of-specification events that occur at their workstation. Also, an analysis of production data will make clear the process capability, which will give emphasis on continuous process improvement efforts on the most critical areas in the manufacturing process.

In other words, the Intercim MES will enable a manufacturer to do the following:

1. Accurately maintain and manage data collection across the factory
2. Determine the capability of manufacturing processes
3. Improve the capability of manufacturing processes by reducing variability
4. Improve the capability of manufacturing processes through corrective actions
5. More rapidly and cost effectively achieve a Six Sigma manufacturing environment
6. Supports application of Six Sigma concepts to other business areas of the company through timely and accurate information
7. Communications throughout the Supply Chain on manufacturing status to support information based decisions throughout the supply chain.

Six Sigma Manufacturing and Intercim’s MES

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