Discover if real-time SPC is right for your organization
According to ARC Advisory Group's Continuous Improvement Systems report, over 80 percent of today’s manufacturers have a continuous improvement program in place. Of those, more than 40 percent depend on SPC as a critical component to achieving their quality goals. Is real-time SPC right for your company? The first step to evaluating this is to conduct a cost/benefit analysis. In it, you will:
- Define your quality goals
- Understand your current cost of quality
- Estimate your potential savings
- Develop success metrics
Why develop a cost benefit analysis?
Clearly aligning a real-time SPC program to your company’s bottom line is fundamental to winning program support in any organization. Many engineers launch SPC programs because “it’s the right thing to do.” These SPC programs sometimes fail or become underrated. It's been our experience that many fledgling SPC programs neglect to:
- Track and measure the appropriate success criteria
- Measure the program's success in terms that financial executives understand
- Focus the appropriate amount of effort on the area of highest opportunity
Quality teams who build program metrics and finite success criteria prior to beginning an SPC program report they achieve greater success and broader company support for their project. DataNet's consultants are experienced at capturing and quantifying the “hard-to-measure” benefits of quality programs. This approach has helped our customers develop winning plans that resonate with management and directly impact the bottom-line.
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