Variation research: Powerful techniques for improving manufacturing process quality

Waste, rework, rejects and external failures cost manufacturers millions of dollars every year. These quality problems also can lead to potentially detrimental consequences, such as legal actions and government intervention from which a company may never fully recover. By using variation research techniques, however, a manufacturer can increase cost savings, boost manufacturing capacity and improve quality. In this white paper, Clarkston Consulting explains variation research and offers six steps companies can take in implementing these initiatives for nearly every production process in their manufacturing facilities.

Variation research helps narrow the gap between how well a manufacturing process performs and how well it is capable of performing. Clarkston Consulting offers six steps for implementing variation research initiatives: Prioritize; quantify the problem variation; eliminate other potential causes; experiment using research techniques; identify the process variable responsible for the offending variation, and introduce process control, if necessary.

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