Reliable Asset Team, Samarco Mining, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil
The project goal was to design an asset's performance measurement process that would enable easy identification of low-performance assets and reduce time waste. Using the DMADV methodology the team applied SIPOC, QFD matrix, gemba walking, attribute agreement analysis, Pugh's matrix, CAP model, and risk diagram. The improvement provided a 29% potential reduction in the time waste and enabled the low performance asset failure mode's identification easy.
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Align Objectives for Great Results
2016 International Team Excellence Award Finalist, “Complaint Busters” team, was awarded bronze-level... [more]
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ITEA Green Foam Team
At the 2015 ASQ World Conference on Quality and Improvement, several ASQ International Team Excellence... [more]
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Minera Saucito, Fresnillo plc, Zacatecas, Zacatecas, Me...
The objective of this project was to improve silver recovery without affecting gold recovery or the... [more]
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Northrop Grumman Team Saves Money
A positive work culture helped a team from Northrop Grumman with a process improvement project.
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Alcoa, Six Sigma, and Teams
A team from Alcoa Power and Propulsion explains a project and the results.
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ITEA Sime Darby
Corporate responsibility was also a significant factor in another presentation at this year's World... [more]
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Social Responsibility Case Study
Author Sonny Maher targeted the study at quality professionals, who he believes are the individuals best... [more]
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Shanghai Yanfeng Johnson Controls Team and Corporate Re...
This 2015 ITEA finalist shares details about the project that aligns with the company's corporate... [more]
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Sime Darby Team and Corporate Responsibility
The 2015 ASQ International Team Excellence Award (ITEA) finalist from Sime Darby discusses the cost... [more]
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Corporate Sustainability
Many organizations have earned a reputation for over-consumption, unnecessary waste, and actions that... [more]
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Developing Idea Generation Skills: TRIZ
Sunil Kumar V. Kaushik, Business Program Manager at Microsoft, discusses TRIZ, and how this theory of... [more]
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The Standards Check In
A check in on the status of general standards revisions, plus new standards being published in 2020.
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Leading RPA Implementation with Lean Six Sigma
Amitabh Saxena, CEO of Anexas Denmark, discusses robotic process automation, and the benefits of using... [more]
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Project Portfolio Management
Marcelo Machado Fernandes, Owner, Operational Excellence, discusses Lean Six Sigma Project Portfolio... [more]
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Lean Six Sigma and AI
In this episode of ASQTV, look at how your lean six sigma skills can help your organization effectively... [more]
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ITEA: TATA Steel Coke Plant
Rishi Gupta, Senior Manager Process Control, TATA Steel, explains how the Coke Plant team used DMAIC and... [more]
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Quality and the Digital Workforce
In this episode, ASQTV takes a quick look at the digital workforce and how quality fits in.
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Applying Agile Methodology
Azizeh Elias Constantinescu and Newton Moore, from Underwriters Laboratories, discuss the importance and... [more]
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ITEA: Activated-Abacom Team
Luis Tibaldo and his team from SanCor Salud, one of the main Private Medicine Groups nationwide,... [more]
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ITEA: SNERDI
Fei Song and her team from SNERDI, a worldwide technology research and design institute for nuclear... [more]
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Episode 18: Six Sigma
Six Sigma is a well-known quality method. But like most quality techniques, its use changes and evolves... [more]
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The How and Why of Auditing
Auditing expert and ASQ fellow Dennis Arter shares tips and advice for auditors and auditees.
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ASQ TV Episode 1: The Customer Experience
Quality and the customer experience go hand-in-hand. Hear from electronics giant Siemens Industry on how... [more]
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ASQ TV Episode 2: Culture of Quality
This episode of ASQ TV explores the culture of quality. Brien Palmer, author of Making Change Work,... [more]
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Culture of Quality
Culture is the driving force of quality. Creating and sustaining a quality culture are much-discussed... [more]
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Standards and Auditing
Learn why ISO 9001:2008, one of the world's best known standards, is being revised. Then hear about the... [more]
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ASQ TV Episode 3: Recalls and Quality
Recalls can be one of the most challenging aspects of the quality professional's job. In this episode,... [more]
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Risk Management and Quality
Organizations perceive risk management in three general ways. Carol Fox, Director, Strategic and... [more]
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Cost of Quality: What is it?
Cost of quality sounds easy to understand but, unfortunately, many misunderstand it. Cost of quality is... [more]
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Episode 17: Voice of the Customer
Voice of the customer, or V-O-C, is the ongoing collection of customer needs and expectations-both... [more]
