Streamlined Procedures for Encapsulation Area

Abstract

A streaming analysis in the Encapsulation Manufacturing Area was performed with the purpose to identify opportunities of improvements for current changeover process. Current changeover process has the following steps; waste product collection, cleaning process, assembly, disassembly, batch entry and setup. The current assessment shows a total of twenty-nine (29) procedures which includes over six hundred (600) pages and around eight hundred (800) entries. The goal of the project is to simplify and standardize the Work Instructions, Qualifications, PPM’s, eliminate and consolidate SOP’s and update the Learning Plan and curriculum for operators. The benefits obtained were the following: a reduction from 29 procedures to 20 which means 31%, 616 pages were used with documents related to hangeover now 309 pages are used for a 50% reduction. In the documentation entries, before there were made 893 entries after the implementation, 193 tickets are made for a 78% reduction. Key Terms - DMAIC, Encapsulation Area, Procedures, Standardization.