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The automotive industry is one of the most demanding sectors of the global market. The response capacity and flexibility of companies represent a key factor for their success. Applying Six Sigma, it was carried out an improvement project aiming at reducing the quantity of scrap on the most critical sector of a automotive components’ manufacturer achieving a better comprehension of the flows, process characteristics and different variables associated to the scrap generation, identifying the equipment responsible for that scrap and its type. Brain- storming sessions were performed, as well as the application of 5 Why’s and 5W2H techniques in order to fulfill the Ishikawa diagrams aiming at understanding possible root-causes for the scrap generation. A definition of the improvement actions has been developed. A reduction of 15% was achieve just in the machine identified as the main generator of scrap in these processes.
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Pereira, J., Silva, F.J.G., Sá, J.C., Bastos, J.A. (2020). Reducing the Scrap Generation by Continuous Improvement: A Case Study in the Manufacture of Components for the Automotive Industry. In: Rossi, M., Rossini, M., Terzi, S. (eds) Proceedings of the 6th European Lean Educator Conference. ELEC 2019. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 122. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-41429-0_23
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