Cycle Time Of CN Series Product Improvement Research In S Company

Since the 21 st century,enterprises have faced more challenges,especially environmental pressure,pessimistic economic situation in recent years.Enterprises must seek opportunities to reform in management,strive to improve operation management and process capability.Six Sigma is a process management methodology to eliminate the unfavorable activities and disadvantage impacts in large scope.It is a related strand of activity focusing on customer satisfaction improvement,devoting to reducing operation cost,utilizing principle of statistics and method of continuous improvement,so as to reduce costs,lower defect rate,shorten cycle time,increase market share,satisfy customer and return to investors.Lean Six Sigma is combination of Lean Production and six sigma management.Its spirit is to eliminate waste and reduce variation.The purpose of Lean Six Sigma management is to integrate Lean Production and six sigma management,to compromises the merits of both method,to cover the shortcomings of each method,and achieve better performance.Lean Six Sigma is not a simple addition of Lean Production and Six Sigma,but a complementary to each other and combination.S company is a company oriented by continuous innovation and leading enterprise in the industry.We have production facilities in Asia,America and Europe,provide consistent customized high-quality products and services.Oligomer product is elder product in S company,it has been commercialized for many years.There are many competitors in the market,facing great pressure on price and quality.At the same time,S company's oligomer production line has been running at full capacity,which can't meet the growing demand.Long cycle time of oligomer production and high product color,both need to be improved urgently.The purpose of this project is introducing lean six sigma management method into Asian plant,utilizing DMAIC method,process mapping tools,root cause analysis and cause and effect matrix,to find out root cause of long production cycle time.Applying lean production methods,and experiment design,shorten production cycle tome.Finally,enterprise could improve in production efficiency,energy saving,product quality,production cost,etc.,so that oligomer product can regain their leading position in the market.