Six Sigma Disciplines in Automotive Applications

2004-01-0684

03/08/2004

Event
SAE 2004 World Congress & Exhibition
Authors Abstract
Content
Six-Sigma provides the opportunity and discipline to eliminate mistakes, improve morale, and save money. Doing things right and keeping them consistent is the idea behind Six-Sigma. A fundamental objective of Six-Sigma is to achieve customer satisfaction with continuous improvement in quality. Process control and manufacturing variation reduction is important but companies often find that the majority of their quality problems were actually created during the design process. An example of improving manufacturing process capability to give bottom line cost savings and customer satisfaction is presented in this paper. The methodology to increase system robustness through Design for Six Sigma (DFSS) is presented and demonstrated through the extension of the case study of crankshaft journal lobing design robustness improvements.
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DOI
https://doi.org/10.4271/2004-01-0684
Pages
9
Citation
Hu, M., Barth, B., and Sears, R., "Six Sigma Disciplines in Automotive Applications," SAE Technical Paper 2004-01-0684, 2004, https://doi.org/10.4271/2004-01-0684.
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Published
Mar 8, 2004
Product Code
2004-01-0684
Content Type
Technical Paper
Language
English