Improving Production Quality

The quality of the final product is influenced by numerous factors related to the production processes — machine settings, quality of input materials, suitability of the environment, quality, method and frequency of maintenance, the human factor, and others.

Advanced Risk Management, s.r.o. offers expert consulting services aimed at optimizing production quality, maximizing profit, and reducing the defect rate.

What data can serve as a basis for analyzing how to improve production quality?

• Records of machines used and their settings during adjustment and operation
• Maintenance information, including original/new machine settings, process and frequency of maintenance, calibration, etc.
• Information about input materials or semi-finished products
• Information about personnel operation/supervision
• Physical measurements of additional factors (air humidity, temperature, voltage fluctuations, and others)
• Records of machine malfunctions (date, type of malfunction)
• Records of (scheduled and unscheduled) machine downtimes
• Records of product quality control results

Purpose of the analysis

• Identify where suboptimal machine settings cause errors
• Understand the relationship between initial machine settings and the resulting defect rate
• Identify key factors contributing to the defect rate and quantify their share in the overall defect rate
• Recommend optimal machine settings balancing production quality and costs associated with machine readjustments
• Propose additional optimization steps based on a cost-benefit comparison