Improve Compliance to Schedule

Abstract

One of the most difficulties in manufacturing is to explain the production colleagues the importance of following a production schedule and deliver product on-time to the next process. The facility in where this research project was conducted, had have a compliance to schedule within an average of 79.1% in the last eleven months, which it is expected to be 95% or above. This low performance to schedule is causing delivery issues from the dye house to the sew plant. In some instances, air shipments and overtime happened, to ensure the distribution center received the product to be able to deliver to the customer on the agreed date. This research project was performed applying the Six Sigma, DMAIC methodology. The structure of the DMAIC methodology truly helped in find out the root cause of the actual problem that was affecting the compliance to schedule. At the end of the project, the compliance to schedule was improved and sustained to 100% for 4 consecutive weeks. Key Terms - Compliance to Schedule, DMAIC, Naïve Forecast, Six Sigma.