INTRODUCTION  - William Edwards Deming was an American statistician, professor, author, lecturer and consultant. He taught top management how to improve design (and thus service), product quality, testing, and sales (the last through global markets) through various m…

- TQM-Total Quality Management concept focus on customer satisfaction through Total Employee Involvement-TEI and Continual Improvement in Product, Process and Services.   - All members of a organization / company engage / participate in improvement activities to ach…

What is 3M, 3K, 3G  - These words are widely used in Japanese industries. Whenever you visit in any Japanese company you will definitely listen these words.   - Basically these are “Best in-house practices followed on shop floor while working in industries. By adopting…

- Disposition is about arrangement so when the product is found to be non-conforming the decision has to be taken on the 'action of dealing with things in a particular way'  - Disposition typically is defined, by most organizations, as an instruction that d…

What is Industry 4.0? - Industry 4.0 refers to the fourth industrial revolution, it is concerned with areas that are not usually classified as industry applications in their own right, such as smart cities.  - It is also knows as I4 or I4.0 - Industry 4.0 converges…

- Audit is on-site verification activity like inspection / examination of process to ensure compliance to requirements.  - Audit can apply to entire organization or specific process or production step.   - Some special purpose of audits are documents audit, risks / …

What is Severity, Occurrence and Detection in FMEA?  - Severity, occurrence and Detection is a part of Failure Mode and Effect Analysis. Severity rating in FMEA  - Severity ratings based on criticality of the risk.   - It evaluate the impact of the failure mode.  - Sev…

Introduction  - Measurement System Analysis  study and Control chart selection decided based on collected data i.e attribute data (Discrete) or Variable data (Continuous).  - This plays major role in problem solving process. Attribute Data  - It is a qua…

What is error?  - Error is defined as difference between the true value and the measured value.  - True value is the average of the infinite numbers of measurements where measured value is the precise value.  - Measurement of any quantity is done by comparing i…

What is GD&T  - Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing (GD&T) is a language of symbols and standards designed and used by engineers and manufacturers to explain a product and facilitate communication between entities working together to produce somethi…