Role of Six Sigma in Improving Quality and Reducing The Cost of Poor Quality Applied Study in The Factory of Kufa Cement

K. Kadhm, Hatim

	Role of Six Sigma in Improving Quality and Reducing The Cost of Poor Quality Applied Study in The Factory of Kufa Cement
AL-Qadisiyah Journal For Administrative and Economic sciences
Article 1, Volume 16, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 251-269 PDF (0 K)
Author
Hatim K. Kadhm
Abstract
The use of Six Sigma Approach helps in improve the Quality and reduce the Cost of Poor Quality of any Costs of the Failure of both types of internal and external by removing defects in production to the lowest identified as possible while maintaining the identical product quality of specifications and standards and maintain customer satisfaction and the satisfaction of needs and desires, so is the research problem high cost of Poor Quality compared total of the cost of Quality, as is evident through the report information of quality costs for Factory sample as a result of the failure of the administration Factory tunnels sufficient Spending on prevention activities that work to remove defects early and work correctly since the first glance, this leads to a reduction the cost of poor quality, which requires the need to Six Sigma Approach which is one of the most important Administrative Approaches which contributes to improving quality and reducing costs at the same time , so research aims to apply the Six Sigma Approach in the Factory sample and know the location of the production for Factory of the Six Sigma Approach by knowing the level of quality ( degree of Sigma ) applied in the Factory The research found a set of conclusions including: the level of Sigma in a Factory of Kufa cement of ( 3.5) nearly It is possible to raise the level of Sigma for this Factory to (4) in order to reduce the cost of Poor quality by (108 675 196 ) diners , and so on down to the level of Sigma (6 ) at which to be Poor Quality costs less as possible so as to approach towards zero defects and this can only be achieved in the long term. And a set of recommendations including: induction to increase spending on prevention activities and work correctly from the beginning to avoid the high percentage of defects in production and the high cost of Poor quality , as well as the use of Experts , Specialists and Consultants from outside the economic unit through the stages of the application of Six Sigma Approach for the purpose of addressing the problems faced by the economic unit when the application or implementation of this approach.

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