Sorour

I look after 3 things for our shop floor staff
Utilisation
Performance
Effciency
Utilisation is made up of Clocked Hours / Good work produced (Not rework jigs etc etc)
Performance is made up of Act Machining hours / Est machining Hours
Efficiency is Utilisation x Performance showns as a % 
Paul

I know you specified Six Sigma, but I thought I would share that Henry Ford Hospital’s pathology lab has done a lot with Lean. There is some detail, including publications, in the menu on the right.
http://www.henryford.com/body.cfm?id=47242

I worked construction for amny years and eventually got my black belt and worked with a qualiry group. 
 
The most notable improvement opportunity was generally waste ( defect )……  There is always additional moneys wasted on projects.  This ends up being additional handeling and excess inventory.  That is,  if you get the job.  Adding add…[Read more]

Not really.  I’m the first person to have this type of job at my hospital.  In the past, they would hire consultants.

Ofcourse the RNs are more concerned with patient care than inputing data.  However, standard of care has changed now and it involves charting accurately to insure the same level of care is consistent and at the level it needs to be. 
I agree that there are some data measured that does not improve care.  I’m curious as to what you would co…[Read more]

One option is to Value Stream Map the process. This will allow you to assign times to the various tasks within the process and also to identify the lag time between tasks. If your improvements reduce lag time only then there is no quantifiable €$ benefit but there is a customer impact. If your improvements include reductions to the task times…[Read more]

How about some Quid Pro Quo Trade – you buy some of ours and we will buy some of yours :-)

We use 1) room turnover time, 2) the number / percentage of late first case starts, 3) OR room utilization, and 4) block scheduling utilization.

Hello Geoff,
 
Would you please send me a copy of the models.  I’m involved  a change organizations and needing to justifying a new organization that will have to change from a small to large enterprise wide organization.
 
 
Thank you for your time and assistance.
 
Paul
[email protected]

Hi Chris- thanks for the reply.
The question I have, however, is not based around the quality of the ratings system which has been developed (we acknowledge that this may need refinement and I haev built in several manual touch points to accommodate for a review of calculated ratings).
It is more around the appropriate statistical methods which…[Read more]

Ken,
I would like to try KTA at my place of work as well and would be interested in your story board and would maintain confidentiality.
Also would be interested to know if I can get any materials for this technique on line?
Thanks,
Paul

Hello all.
 
If this si still doing the rounds, I would liek to see a copy.  Does anyone have it, and could they send it to [email protected] ?
 
Many thanks,
 
Paul

Some organisations use aptitude tests in such subjects as verbal reasoning, maths and logic although I have found that this does not necessarily highlight the best candidates.
Ideally it should be someone who has a high aptitude for the above, has good project management skills, who has experience dealing with people and influencing, experience…[Read more]

Hi Guys.
I was talking to a work colleague. He said you can determine the Ppk by using your confidence intervals and k value. Simply by using the confidence formula 95/999 = mean –k X sd and LSL- mean divided by 3 x sd = Ppk you can work out that the Ppk is 1/3 the k value.
Don’t know if anybody heard this before or if there some data behind i…[Read more]

Hi
One more question (actually 2). Is it acceptable to make product for the Gage R&R which is outside specification. e.g. specification 21±1mm and our product would be 20±1mm. it is the same toleremce and i would be able to make product which would cover the entire range. 10 samples at different lengths across the 2mm.
Question 2. Is there a…[Read more]

Hi
Thank you both for the respoce. it has been most helpful. i am assuming the AIAG standard can be carried across to the manufacture of medical devices.
thank you again

Hi,
Thanks for the responces. I am new to the company and to be honest i am in fovour of doing the gage R&R studies but risk assestments have been completed previously and i am meeting resistance.
wouldyou guys recommend choosing the smallest component (hardest to hold and measure) as the component to do gage r&g on snap gauge. this would c…[Read more]

Greeting Michael.
I’m afraid I don’t understand that answer.
Could you explain?
Regards,
P

Hi Michael.
Not much of a time difference between us, as I am in Oz.
Thanks again. I will plough on with the tests, happy I’m on the right road.
Cheers,
Paul

Thanks again Michael.  Getting a little confused, however.
As some of my data is not normally distributed at a factor level (month), does that not invalidate a comparison of means?
Hmmmmmmm…
Paul