Paper Title
Process Capability Improvement of Routing Machines through Standardization of Compensation
Abstract
The process capability of machines is an important aspect in Quality Management to decide whether or not a
process is capable of meeting the required specifications. process capability measures the ability of a process of producing
acceptable products according to the established specifications. The most common indicator used to measure the process
capability is the process capability index. There are several Process capability Indices (PCI’s) to measure the process
capability of machines. This paper uses CpK i.e., process capability index to measure the same. Prior to CpK measurement, a
detail study of Routing compensation was carried out in the routing shop floor for four different machines against two
parameters ; Router diameter and Stack height and the variations in compensation value were graphically plotted diameter
wise and operator wise. The current situation was established in order to assess the present scenario and set up a target value
for future scope of improvement. Correspondingly, CpK values were also generated for the current situation. Post corrective
measures and actions there was a significant improvement in the CpK-value. Finally the results were statistically compared
to know the improvement.
Keywords - Routing; Process capability; Index of Process capability; compensation.