Today we wrap up our series on kick-starting your SPC. Throughout the past several weeks we’ve reviewed concepts on how to help make your program a success by ensuring your team is educated, that they understand transition is an investment, and that everyone is aware of the role that production workers must embrace as well as management’s role.
6.) The next steps.
Don’t place unrealistic demands on yourself or your team.
Continue the cycle of gathering data, plotting it, studying it, and reacting to it. When you are comfortable with the system of process control, expand to include related characteristics. When you are comfortable with those, add others or bring a new target area into focus. Keep adding new areas until everything is under control.
Your start was slow; expect a gradual shift!
Once everything is up and running, keep working to improve the product. It’s easy to get discouraged, especially if your process adjustments do the opposite of what you expect them to. Sometimes you’ll have setbacks.
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Making the gradual shift to SPC allows you and your coworkers to become more familar with SPC techniques and how they apply to your company. It allows you to pinpoint areas that need more attention. But most importantly, it keeps you from getting overwhelmed.
The key to experiencing positive results is to be patient and stay focused. If you do, great rewards and payback lie ahead!
This content is from Zontec’s The Book of Statistical Process Control. You can download a free copy here.