The application of statistical process control in U.K. automotive manufacture: Some research findings
作者:
B. G. Dale,
P. Shaw,
期刊:
Quality and Reliability Engineering International
(WILEY Available online 1989)
卷期:
Volume 5,
issue 1
页码: 5-15
ISSN:0748-8017
年代: 1989
DOI:10.1002/qre.4680050105
出版商: Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company
关键词: SPC;Automotive manufacture;Difficulties encountered;Pointers for success
数据来源: WILEY
摘要:
AbstractThis paper reports on the findings of a questionnaire survey into the use of statistical process control (SPC) in a sample of United Kingdom automotive suppliers. All the 76 respondents had attended the Ford‐approved three‐day course on SPC held at the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST). The survey investigated the following broad issues of SPC: motivation, implementation, application, suppliers and customers, and benefits. A number of findings surprised the authors; these included the number of organizations who had not appointed a SPC facilitator, organizations experiencing difficulties in deciding what type of control charts to use, control charts being ‘filled‐in’ by people not directly responsible for control of a process, charts being displayed away from work areas and the frankness of some suppliers in declaring that the vast majority of their manufacturing processes are not in a state of statistical control. If there is an overall message arising from the findings it is that the introduction and application of SPC should not be overco
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