Design of inspection plans for a Stainless Steel Furniture Factory

Author

Mingprasert, S. ; Jaturonnatee, J.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Ind. Eng., Thammasat Univ., Pathumthani, Thailand

fYear

2011

fDate

14-17 Sept. 2011

Firstpage

460

Lastpage

464

Abstract

This research investigates the inspection process of a Stainless Steel Furniture Factory. There are an increasing number of customer complaints due to lack of standard and inconsistency of inspection, especially for the key processes. The new inspection plans are designed for those processes to overcome this issue. Based on Military Standard 105E (MIL-STD-105E), two acceptance sampling plans are proposed using the single sampling plan at AQLs 1.0 and 1.5. However, the inspection results are verified by 100% inspection with respect to their reliability and inspection time and cost. In conclusion, the acceptance sampling plan at AQL 1.0 is selected for cutting, drilling, and welding processes while the 100% inspection is used for chemical, assembly and finishing processes because of small lot size and vital processes. This approach can ensure that only good quality products will be delivered to the customer and the result shows that the customer complaints has decreased by 51.69%.

Keywords

assembling; customer satisfaction; cutting; drilling; furniture industry; inspection; lot sizing; process planning; quality control; reliability; sampling methods; stainless steel; standards; welding; acceptance sampling plan; assembly; customer complaints; cutting; drilling; finishing process; inspection planning design; lot sizing; military standard 105E MIL-STD-105E; products quality; reliability; stainless steel furniture factory; welding; Assembly; Chemicals; Finishing; Inspection; Military standards; Production facilities; Welding; Acceptable Quality Level; inspection; quality; sampling plan;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Quality and Reliability (ICQR), 2011 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Bangkok

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-0626-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICQR.2011.6031761

Filename

6031761