I had a case where the team needs to confirm 4 process parameters. When the control lot is in progress, team members set the 4 parameters at the same time then data is collected. At the end of

Just to recap, tools used in the IMPROVE Phase are listed below. In this article, I will cover the tools in bold:

Brainstorming of action / solution | Selection Grid | Benchmarking | Cost-Benefit Analysis| Control lot and testing | Pilot the action / solution | Force-Field Analysis | Prevention Planner

Problem with Control Lot and Testing

It is quite a challenge to use this tool not the tool itself but the planning go with it when need to run a control lot. First of all, the team need to consider several issues namely; Size of the control lot, duration of run, what parameter need to confirm, who will be involved, when to run it? Which shift to run it, and how is data to be collected. Due to lack of experience, the team struggle with it

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Just to recap, tools used in the IMPROVE Phase are listed below. In this article, I will cover the tools in bold:

Brainstorming of action / solution | Selection Grid | Benchmarking | Cost-Benefit Analysis| Control lot and testing | Pilot the action / solution | Force-Field Analysis | Prevention Planner

Problem with Control Lot and Testing

It is quite a challenge to use this tool not the tool itself but the planning go with it when need to run a control lot. First of all, the team need to consider several issues namely; Size of the control lot, duration of run, what parameter need to confirm, who will be involved, when to run it? Which shift to run it, and how is data to be collected. Due to lack of experience, the team struggle with it

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Problem with Control Lot and Testing

It is quite a challenge to use this tool not the tool itself but the planning go with it when need to run a control lot. First of all, the team need to consider several issues namely; Size of the control lot, duration of run, what parameter need to confirm, who will be involved, when to run it? Which shift to run it, and how is data to be collected. Due to lack of experience, the team struggle with it

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data to be collected. Due to lack of experience, the team struggle with it

I had a case where the team needs to confirm 4 process parameters. When the control lot is in progress, team members set the 4 parameters at the same time then data is collected. At the end of the run, data collected are not useful to make any correlation as they did not provide any pattern.

How to Overcome Control Lot and Testing Problem

Team need to understand the inter-relationship between each of the four parameters and how it influences the coating thickness. By requirement, the team needs to run four control lots for each of the parameter as a variable separately. In another word, the team needs to adjust one parameter setting with the rest the three locked. The idea is to see the effect of one parameter to the thickness by turn.

Problem with Pilot the action / solution

During the case of coating thickness, the team has confirmed the various setting after the control lot run. During the pilot run, team run into trouble even though all the four parameter wee set according to the new requirements. Production supervisor may over react and set the four parameters back to the old setting. It did not help either. As a result, reject for coating thickness increased dramatically.
How to Overcome