
Success Stories
Trane indoor comfort systems achieves high quality and cool savings with WinSPCBackground The Trane Company, a subsidiary of INgersoll Rand is a $4B worldwide leading supplier of indoor comfort systems. Trane’s products include heating, ventilation and air conditioning equipment for residential and commercial applications. Trane has gained significant benefits using WinSPC. “WinSPC has the Six Sigma tools that I need to make breakthrough improvements. It also ensures that our improvements simply won’t fade away in a couple months. WinSPC keeps out processes under Control and reduces scrap by 50% annually.” Stan Crockett Black Belt Engineer Trane Challenge For Trane, manufacturing leak-free refrigerant coils without generating an unacceptable amount of scrap is imperative to producing world-class indoor comfort systems. Trane was experiencing an unacceptable scrap rate in the process of fabricating these coils. Trane, therefore, set a goal to reduce scrapped coils and the copper and aluminum components that make up a refrigerant coils. Using Six Sigma, Trane pinpointed the critical process inputs that have the most impact on improving quality and reducing that variation that causes coil slab and copper scrap. But significant challenges still remained.
Implementation Trane chose WinSPC for the following reasons:
Results WinSPC supports Trane’s Six Sigma program by providing essential tools and ensuring success in the final control stage of the DMAIC cycle. Trane’s operators also have adopted WinSPC as mission critical to their success. Benefits Trane specifically cited the following benefits achieved with WinSPC:
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