Date of Award
12-2015
Culminating Project Type
Starred Paper
Degree Name
Engineering: M.E.M
Department
Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering
College
College of Science and Engineering
First Advisor
Ben Baliga
Second Advisor
Hiral A. Shah
Third Advisor
Chieh Y. Cheng
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License.
Keywords and Subject Headings
six sigma, productivity, quality control, quality management, bottleneck, improvement.
Abstract
The development of smart cards already has a nearly 20-year history in the world. As the improvement of producing techniques and degree of the popularity become more mature, smart card’s development is stepping into a high-speed period. The application of smart cards is widely used in various fields such as telecommunication, financials, transportation, social security, medical treatment, etc. This smart card company was undergoing a downturn times due to the competitive pressure and bottleneck process on assembly line. Therefore the objectives of this project were to help the company becoming competitive by increasing the yield and maintaining the decent qualities of smart cards.
The project conducted DMAIC (Define, Measure, Analysis, Improve, Control) process, a very important methodology of Six Sigma, to help this company improving the productivity in the competitive smart cards market without adding any unvalued equipment or additional labor. At the same time maintained the quality of smart cards to satisfy the customers. Nowadays Six Sigma is becoming popular especially in manufacturing fields and industrial sectors as a set of techniques and tools for process improvement. This project eventually presented the desirable results and achievements to illustrate the significance of applying Six Sigma.
Recommended Citation
Wu, Yue Ms., "Project of productivity improvement and quality control at a smart card company based on six sigma" (2015). Culminating Projects in Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering. 3.
https://repository.stcloudstate.edu/mme_etds/3
Comments/Acknowledgements
I would like to extend my sincere thanks to all those who have helped me to finish this starred paper. Firstly, I am deeply grateful to my committee chair, Dr. Ben Baliga, who have checked through my paper with patience and given me instructive suggestions. Then thanks to my professors, Dr. Shah and Dr. Cheng. Finally, I am very grateful to my lovely friends who have helped me with my paper.