Poke Yoke mistake proofing: which way up?
Poke yoke is about stopping the mistake from ever happening in the first place – so no down line quality inspection is required. This can happen at the design stage, so that for example, a component is designed so that it can only be inserted the right way up. Or it can happen before components are assembled and defects are passed down the line. Back to the Oban Chocolate shop – they taste their raw chocolate before they process it (it’s a hard life!). Dumbfoundingly simple, but if you don’t test your raw ingredients, how can you guarantee that your hand made chocolate will taste fresh? Quality Related cost reduction In Six Sigma land, you have to calculate your “cost of poor quality”. In other words, how much time/resource could you save if you were to reduce or even eliminate the defects in your process. For example, you know a certain type of customer complaint always takes more time than it should to resolve. After investigation, you discover that a subset of these customer complai
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