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X Bar Quality Control System

Background

We are one of the leading companies that has made a name for itself as a leading agency in offering strategy, integration, and enablement services that accelerate digital initiatives leveraging Quality control charts that depict measures of quality for processes or for products. They show the deviation, if any, from the set, ideal standards or specifications for a product or a process. We serve enterprise customers across verticals and enable the quality Production Channel. We pride ourselves on our competitive advantage which lies in our unmatched Quality Control System.

Challenges the Customer Faced

Company X is a company that over time had faced many challenges. The main challenge, for instance, is that for a Company that sells bottled beverages, some of the caps affixed by the machines, were affixed in such a way that they were impossible and hard for the Customer to remove the cap. This is a common problem in the uneven quality which negatively impacted the company’s sales. They wanted to set rigorous specification standards for both manufacturing processes and for the finished products that they produce but didn’t know where to begin. 

There was also a problem in trying to reveal how much deviation exists from the specification standards for a product. The specifications had requirements that wanted examining either a single variable or multiple variables related to the desired quality of a product or process.

Services we offer to address the challenges

The company had sought out our help to give a solution to their challenge as we have a track record of helping businesses to achieve operational excellence. After evaluating the specifications and quality needs and desired outcomes, we presented several possible solutions for the customer with detailed pro’s and con’s, outlining the limitations of several set-ups, and highlighting our best recommendation. 

After customers agree with our best recommendation, we provided them a technical delivery roadmap for them to execute which was guided by our quality control system. The functionality of our system is one of the best in quality control examination of samples and the chart usually include upper and lower quality control lines that represent acceptable, relatively insignificant levels of deviation from the desired specification. Plotted on the chart mainly are the results of random samples drawn for the quality control study (Mitra, 2012).

Positive results from our services

We were able to be in control since we produced the desired level of uniform quality and increased production by a stunning 25% over a short period of time.  We dedicated multiple full-time engineering and quality control resources to augment and kickstart the initiative. Our technical staff was able to operate and deliver on the agreed roadmap over the course of 18-months. 

Benefits achieved

The benefits for the use of our quality control system includes; 

  • Immediate Damage / Defect Acknowledgement
    According to Mitra, 2016 “A defect is associated with a quality characteristic that does not meet certain standard.” The quality chart can integrate with lot device alarm and scanner, so that the input is almost live, and the alarm is also live. And notifications are immediately sent to the smartphone. 
  • Quality checking before delivery to customer
    Quality chart is useful for quality checking / assurance department to do the checking before the product is ready to ship to customer.
  • History track log
    You can keep track the part number, supplier number, lot number, and date time especially in a vehicle. As long as we are using the computer system to store the data, which is permanent and the system can retrieve the data by just clicking and selecting. 

Citations 

Mitra, A. (2016). Fundamentals of quality control and improvement. John Wiley & Sons. 

Mitra, A. (2012). Fundamentals of Quality Control and Improvement.

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Employee Intranet System

Background and Challenges the company faced

Company X is a company that over the past few years had faced many challenges. The company had very few documented processes and procedures and it became evident that their existing information system was not adequately supporting their growth strategy. The organization’s, communication was poor and the inventory accuracy was less than 70%. As we all know, communication is always the key for a successful business. It was inevitable that management finally made the decision to incur the expense and implement a new Intranet system.

Another challenge the Company faced is that they had over 1000 employees from different countries and as their daily activities revolved around accessing files, business would be impaired every time there was a miscommunication or downtime. Ensuring the proper permissions and content migration is one of the things that the company should strive to achieve.

All this was as a result of the high turnover, communication error across divisions and departments, hiring of unskilled labor, employee skills did not match what was required of them. There was no robust way of training new and existing employees and there was no performance feedback throughout the organization hence the production rate was very low. Generally, the company lacked a clear and consistent information system.

The services we offered to address the challenges

The company sought us out to help them plan, develop, and implement a new and efficient information system as we have a track record of helping businesses to achieve operational excellence. Partnering with us was a sure guarantee for the company’s improved results. We used our intranet system to implement an operational driven culture in the organization with a standardized and visualized performance in all the departments. We improved the communication and the interaction between all the teams. “Once employees perceive that the intranet is simple to use, they may search it for timely information that facilitates better decisions and allows them to be more productive in accomplishing their tasks (Hussein et al., 2008)”

Using our system, we were able help the customer transition from the existing unreliable system to a new intranet system which immensely helped to put all the company information, department introduction, and policy in a centralized platform. Through our system, we were able to train critical processes as well as bringing the departments to work together as a team and develop best practices across all levels of the organization. We also came up with a better content management and exemplary workflow governance.

Our system process and functionality

Our system’s functionality is unique and geared to achieve the following: setting the control access for over 1000 employees; introduction of social chatting and functionality which aims at increasing employee interaction among divisions and fellow employees; accessing the history gallery which is aimed at helping the new employees to walk through the gallery of the past and understand more about the company; security by encrypting all the confidential information of the employees; compatibility for mobile, desktop, and tablet for all employees to enjoy their work in their preferred devices. 

Positive results from our services

Through our services, the company has become a success as we have saved up to 5.8 million dollars of cost reduction in 6 months. The company saw a tremendous reduction of communication errors in 5 months which amounts to a 69% reduction. Another great outcome was in the improvement in production rates reaching up to 40%. 

All the employees across all the departments are now happy and motivated as we standardized dynamically documented processes as well as developing training videos. We have the best services and we help companies achieve operational excellence. We specialize in developing and implementing a foundation of communication, standard operating procedures, and employee engagement to drive a culture that is sustainable for improvements as in the case of Company X which was a success. 

Citation

Masrek, M. N., Karim, N. S. A., & Hussein, R. (2008). The effect of organizational and individual characteristics on corporate intranet utilizations. Information Management & Computer Security.