Quality Control
Milliken left his office and crossed the factory floor to the Quality Control office to find QC Manager Fran Schuler inside. They chatted about the procedures for the start of each shift, then Milliken asked where the main problems arose.
Schuler told him that quality problems were concentrated in Fold & Glue with either missing glued lines or excess glue. Schuler showed him a report from October, their worst month of fiscal 2011, indicating that 6% of products were found defective due to glue problems and were scrapped, with a further 1% of shipped product rejected by the customer due to glue problems. There were also some problems in Finishing—a much lower volume department—primarily due to orders shipping with some or all pieces missing an attachment like a button or zipper. If the customer returned these they could usually be reworked rather than scrapped.
"What's your staffing, and your procedures for preventing or finding defects?" asked Milliken. "The supervisor signs off on the first good piece the operator runs," said Schuler. "That goes in the Work Order Jacket." The Work Order Jacket traveled with the job; it listed the routing, the standard setup and run times, any special instructions, and ship-to information. It also held the customer's signed proof along with samples signed by operators, supervisors, and QC at each operation.
Schuler told him that QC had one inspector on each shift covering the Composition, Sheet, Print, and Die-cut departments, and a second for Fold & Glue, Finishing, and the shipping dock. The inspectors went from machine to machine checking two pieces every hour during the production run, and performed a final inspection of material before it shipped out. Schuler said, "In Shipping we check the product against the proof in the Work Order Jacket, and against any special instructions like special packing or ship-to. Usually it takes about 15 minutes to do an order. Of course we might not have the Work Order Jacket at that point if it's been partialed since the jacket gets filed up in the Production office after the first shipment." If an order was running late it was sometimes possible to rush a "partial" quantity of the whole order to satisfy part of the customer need, with the rest of the order completed and shipped later.
Quality Control
Milliken left his office and crossed the factory floor to the Quality Control office to find QC Manager Fran Schuler inside. They chatted about the procedures for the start of each shift, then Milliken asked where the main problems arose.
Schuler told him that quality problems were concentrated in Fold & Glue with either missing glued lines or excess glue. Schuler showed him a report from October, their worst month of fiscal 2011, indicating that 6% of products were found defective due to glue problems and were scrapped, with a further 1% of shipped product rejected by the customer due to glue problems. There were also some problems in Finishing—a much lower volume department—primarily due to orders shipping with some or all pieces missing an attachment like a button or zipper. If the customer returned these they could usually be reworked rather than scrapped.
"What's your staffing, and your procedures for preventing or finding defects?" asked Milliken. "The supervisor signs off on the first good piece the operator runs," said Schuler. "That goes in the Work Order Jacket." The Work Order Jacket traveled with the job; it listed the routing, the standard setup and run times, any special instructions, and ship-to information. It also held the customer's signed proof along with samples signed by operators, supervisors, and QC at each operation.
Schuler told him that QC had one inspector on each shift covering the Composition, Sheet, Print, and Die-cut departments, and a second for Fold & Glue, Finishing, and the shipping dock. The inspectors went from machine to machine checking two pieces every hour during the production run, and performed a final inspection of material before it shipped out. Schuler said, "In Shipping we check the product against the proof in the Work Order Jacket, and against any special instructions like special packing or ship-to. Usually it takes about 15 minutes to do an order. Of course we might not have the Work Order Jacket at that point if it's been partialed since the jacket gets filed up in the Production office after the first shipment." If an order was running late it was sometimes possible to rush a "partial" quantity of the whole order to satisfy part of the customer need, with the rest of the order completed and shipped later.
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