Study Of Chemical And Physical Inspection Process For Daily Chemical Products In A Company

Process optimization is to summarize current process and make improvements throughthe methods of elimination, combination, rearrangement and simplification. It helpsenterprises maintain their competitive advantages by improving working quality, enhancingworking efficiency and reducing cost etc.In the competitive Fast Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG), the requirements to controlproduction efficiency and cost are much higher than before. As FMCG products, the ACompany’s daily chemical products including homecare, personal care and cosmetic products,encounter the same challenges in terms of production efficiency and cost control. Chemicaland physical inspection is one of the important quality control processes for daily chemicalproducts, the inspection time impacts on production time and efficiency directly. It is no doubtthat how to shorten the chemical and physical inspection time on the basis of ensuring thegood product quality is very important for A company.This paper mainly adopts the method of case study, aiming at the problem existed in Acompany, which its current chemical and physical inspection time is130minutes whereas theproduction planning’s requirement is120minutes. By searching literature, investigating onsite, applying process optimization theory and using kinds of tools such as flow chart analysis,critical path analysis, ECRS analysis, fish bone diagram, data statistic etc., the problems androot causes in current inspection process are analyzed and identified, thus come up with thedetailed needs to optimize this inspection process. Based on the defined optimization needs,this paper is targeting to reduce the chemical and physical inspection time for A Company’sdaily chemical products to less than120minutes, and provides the optimization solutions inthe aspect of informative automation, working arrangements optimization and new equipmentacquisition plan. In contrast with before and after inspection process optimization, theinspection time of optimized chemical and physical inspection process is shortened to90minutes, which reaches and exceeds the original target.In addition, this paper gives some suggestions to continuous improvements afterwards, and its study conclusion is worth leaning reference about inspection process optimization forenterprises’ laboratories.