Abstract :
A revolution is underway in electronics manufacturing involving fundamental philosophy, structure, and process redesign. The authors describe how these changes have been carried out at AT&T Microelectronics´ Power Systems. Attention is given to the following aspects of this effort: quality, policy deployment, education and training, seven-step quality improvement, employee involvement, poka-yoke (in English, `mistake proofing´), and just-in-time. It is concluded that the changes have resulted in the best-ever quality, as evidenced by both internal quality assurance measurements and by direct feedback from customers. Intervals for both new product introduction and manufacturing have been dramatically reduced; 40% for new products and 50% for manufacturing. Shipping performance has improved 84%, with many focused factories routinely having 100% performance months
Keywords :
power supplies to apparatus; quality control; training; AT&T Microelectronics´ Power Systems; education; just-in-time; policy deployment; power systems manufacturing; product introduction; quality; shipping performance; training; Manufacturing; Power system management; Power system modeling; Power system planning; Power systems; Process planning; Production facilities; Quality management; Total quality management; Yarn;
Conference_Titel :
Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition, 1992. APEC '92. Conference Proceedings 1992., Seventh Annual