1. AN EMPIRICAL STUDY TO ANALYZE MANUFACTURING PROCESS USING PROCESS CAPABILITY INDICES IN PASWARA PAPERS LTD., MEERUT.
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Tyagi, Vivek and Kumar, Lalit
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MANUFACTURING processes ,MACHINING ,PAPER ,CUSTOMER satisfaction ,PRODUCT design - Abstract
A manufacturing process is a unique combination of 4 Ms viz. manpower, methods, machines and materials in developing a product. Process capability indices have been used to provide quantitative measures of process potential and performances. High quality production assures advantages like cost saving, scrap reduction or remanufacturing, higher yield and increased customer satisfaction and market share. Process capability Indices like Cp, Cpk, Cpm and Cpmk are commonly used in industry to assess the ability of a process to meet specification limits on quality characteristics of interest. In modern manufacturing when product designs are complicated and consumers' requirements are changeable rapidly, multiple characteristics must be assessed simultaneously to improve product's quality and also to consider the correlation effects among different quality characteristics. The objective of this paper is to identify the critical variables of the whole process of paper manufacturing and to conduct process capability analysis (univariate and multivariate) to measure performance in a multistage manufacturing process by understanding the concepts, and methodologies of quality engineering techniques. The paper manufacturing has various stages namely pulping, screening, cleaning, deinking, refining, pressing, steam drying, bleaching, steam drying and size press. The results show that multivariate capability indices, MCpk for Cobb and RCT (CD), BF anf Paper Ash, significantly correlated, are 0.17 and 0.40 respectively. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2019