BACKGROUND INFORMATION
For this milestone, the goal is for you to continue your analysis from Milestones One and Two and to forecast various operational parameters for your chosen phone option utilizing various process improvement techniques. You will be revising the forecast from Milestone Two to show how it would change (potentially) by applying some process improvement techniques. There are numerous forecasting tools and techniques available. However, for this project you will only use the naïve, moving average, and exponential smoothing (technique). Don't forget to include any assumptions you made during your analysis, as this will be important to decision makers reviewing your documentation.
This activity addresses the following Module Outcomes:
Determine if an operation is operating in accordance with Lean principles. (CO#1, CO#2, CO#3, CO#6)
Evaluate various quality and statistical process control variables and tools. (CO#1, CO#2, CO#3, CO#6)
PROMPT
Often times as part of a Process Improvement Plan, several statistical process control Lean processes will be utilized to support the development of the recommendation(s).
TASKS
Using the phone option you recommended in Milestone One and the analyses you conducted in Milestone Two, complete the following:
1. Statistical process control analysis of manufacturing process steps from three years of date using the Historical Data sheet along with the Raw Data Year 1 sheet in the project Excel file. You should determine or create upper control and lower control limits (process mean plus or minus some percentage) to evaluate process control of each manufacturing step.
2. A Lean process evaluation.
3. Provide recommendations for process improvements, including a three-year forecast (using the same format as Milestone 2) of expected production efficiency gains. You can make an assumption that purchase intent survey data may change as a result of these process improvements.
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