Quality improvement programme at afrox limited: gas equipment factory
Date
2015-01-16
Authors
Desatnik, Ashley Fraser
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Abstract
This Project Report deals with the investigation of
quality improvement at Afrox Limited: Gas Equipment
Factory (G.E.F),Germiston,South Africa, which employs
the Just-In-Time/Total Quality Control (JIT/TQC)
manufacturing philosophy. The investigation was carried
out to determine the underlying causes of inconsistent
product quality, high scrap and reject rates, and
excessive rework in the Regulator cell. The Project
Report documents a Quality Improvement Programme aimed
specifically at the improvement of the tool setters'
performance which was found to be largely responsible
for poor quality. The programme is designed to organize
the .'tool setters' machine setup activities in the most
efficient and regulated way possible in order to
achieve maximum quality and productivity improvement.
The design of the Quality Improvement Programme is
presently under consideration for implementation.