TecnoWorld (TW) is a family run company focused on engineering & service industry, currently organized with two Business Units (BU). The first cater the electric power Industry with service solutions across the power generation, transmission and distribution value chain while the second is designated as automation BU providing designed services for industrial processes productivity and efficiency optimization. With over 20 years within the energy industry, TW has decided to endeavor into renewable energies segment, by adding a BU focused in photovoltaic systems. Following the challenging launch of automation BU operations in the year 2010, the general manager with a proactive management step to evaluate alternative initiatives to be able to completely understand the process steps, capabilities and performance measurements of the service-product to ensure meeting the customer requirements at launch. Therefore in the last quarter of 2015 a team was created to undertake the project of implementing Design for Six Sigma (DFSS), which is an initiative used to create service functions at six sigma levels that provides the perspective and tools to achieve low defects over long-term operational opportunities. DFSS targets a new service introduction by deriving and integrating tools and methods to reduce vulnerabilities in both conceptual and process areas. The project follows the five development phases; define, measure, analyze, design and verify (DMADV). However the last phase “Verify” can only be applied when TW opens for business at the beginning of 2017, consequently the results of this phase are not presented in this project. After the “Define” phase where the business and project goals and constraints were described, the following phases are based mainly on the Quality Function Deployment (QFD), best described as a closed loop of the design activities, represented in figure 1. A= Forward customer analysis; all the customer input was arranged through a grouping technique that operates on the basis of intuitive similarities detected from the standalone ideas to arrangements of classes of ideas, which then were ranked accordingly to its relative importance, to be used as a baseline for the design activities and further for customer satisfaction evaluation. B= QFD analysis; this planning tool allowed the flow-down of high-level customer needs through the exploration of the relationships between quality characteristics expressed by the customer and substitute quality requirements expressed in engineering terms. The use of house of the quality (HOQ) resulted the definition of the service functional requirements. E= DFSS tools and concepts; different tools were selected to explore more in-depth the company´s functions, to create service solutions based on the selected functional requirements, with a quality defined by the customer and to prevent performance variability and defects. D= Customer satisfaction; this step represents the “Verify” phase of the initiative and cannot be develop because at the moment TW is still structuring the complete set of functions, to launch the BU by the beginning of 2017. Nevertheless the initiative suggests to do a backward analysis and an ongoing monitoring and validation process of the designed solutions, based on the findings on customer and business needs. BDE= the team´s analytical capabilities should cope with the ability to synthesize concepts and ensure customer expectations are met and are embedded into the designed solutions. The C corresponds to the appropriate implementation of controls to ensure that the design continues to perform as expected and anomalies are addresses as soon as they are identified This project created the conceptual and detailed designs of the service solutions of those selected functional requirements; Knowledge Management, Design of the integrated system, Compliance audit and Project Management, to deliver the most efficient and flexible manner. Eventually will align the benefits for customers and stakeholders in operation. The DFSS initiative as many other quality frameworks implies a cultural transformation for the organization. To some extents is the baseline for performance improvement and its development process can be replicated to any other area or process within the organization.
TecnoWorld (TW) è un’azienda a gestione familiare d’Ingegneria e servizi, attualmente strutturata in due Business Unit (BU). La prima unità opera nel settore dell’industria dell’energia elettrica, con un campo d’azione che spazia dalla generazione alla trasmissione e distribuzione. La BU di automazione, invece, fornisce servizi progettati per ottimizzare la produttività ed efficienza dei processi industriali. Con più di 20 anni all’interno dell’industria energetica, TW ha deciso di inserirsi nel settore delle energie rinnovabili, aggiungendo una BU incentrata sui sistemi fotovoltaici. Tenendo presenti le sfide che TW ha dovuto affrontare nel 2010 quando ha avviato le operazioni dell’unità di automazione, il direttore generale, con un approccio proattivo, ha deciso di valutare diverse alternative utili a capire completamente tutti i passaggi del processo, le risorse necessarie e le misure di rendimento utili per assicurare le aspettative dei clienti rispetto al prodotto-servizio sin dalla partenza. Per questo motivo, nell’ultimo quadrimestre del 2015, è stato creato un “team” che ha iniziato a occuparsi del progetto d’implementazione del “Design for Six Sigma” (DFSS), il quale prevede la creazione delle funzioni del servizio a livelli di “six sigma” che forniscano le prospettive e gli strumenti necessari per ottenere un basso numero di difetti in un lungo periodo di operazioni. Il DFSS ha l’obiettivo di introdurre un nuovo servizio derivando e integrando diversi metodi e strumenti per ridurre le vulnerabilità in entrambe aree, la concettuale e il processo stesso. Questo progetto segue le cinque fasi di sviluppo del DFSS: definizione, misura, analisi, progettazione e verifica (DMADV). L'ultima fase “verifica”, tuttavia, non può essere applicata finché TW non avvierà le operazioni, azione prevista per l’inizio del 2017, conseguentemente a questo i risultati di questa fase non potranno essere presenti in questo progetto. Dopo la fase “definizione”, in cui gli obiettivi e le limitazioni dell’attività e del progetto vengono descritti, le ulteriori fasi sono basate principalmente sul Quality Function Deployment (QFD), descritto meglio come un ciclo continuo e chiuso delle attività svolte per il disegno delle soluzioni, rappresentate nella figura No. 1. A= Analisi a futuro dei clienti; tutti gli “input” da parte dei clienti sono stati sistemati attraverso tecniche di raggruppamento che operano sulle basi di similarità intuitive rilevate a partire delle singole idee per poi trasformarle in clasi d’idee, che furono posteriormente classificate d’accordo alla sua importanza per posteriormente essere utilizzzate come linea di base per le attività di progettazione e ulteriormente per la valutazione sulla soddisfazione dei clienti. B= analisi QFD; questa tecnica di pianificazione ha permesso il “flow-down” delle neccesità espresse dal cliente attraverso l’esplorazione delle relazioni tra le caratteristiche di qualità richieste dal cliente e i requisiti di qualità espressi in termini ingegneristici. L’utilizzo della casa della Qualità (HOQ) ha portato alla definizione dei requisiti funzionali del servizio. E= concetti e tecniche DFFS; diverse tecniche sono state scelte per esplorare più in profondità le funzioni dell’azienda per poi creare le soluzioni del servizio partendo dai requisiti funzionali selezionati. Queste soluzioni prendono in considerazione la qualità definita dai clienti e la prevenzione della variabilità delle prestazioni e dei difetti. D= Soddisfazione del cliente; Questo passaggio rappresenta la fase di verifica dell’iniziativa. In questo momento TW sta strutturando il gruppo di funzioni per avviare la BU all’inizio del 2017. Tuttavia, l’iniziativa suggerisce di fare un’analisi retrospettiva insieme a il monitoraggio continuo e alla validazione dei processi delle soluzioni progettate, basati sui risultati delle necessità del cliente e dell’attività. BDE (ciclo) = Le capacità analitiche del team dovrebbero maneggiare l’abilità di sintetizzare concetti e assicurarsi che le aspettative del cliente siano state compiute e inserite nelle soluzioni progettate. La C corrisponde al processo in corso di monitoraggio e validazione delle soluzioni di servizio progettate. Con questo progetto sono stati creati e strutturati i modelli concettuali e i progetti dettagliati delle soluzioni di servizio dei requisiti funzionali selezionati: “Knowledge Management”, “Design of the integrated system”, “Compliance audit and Project Management”, necessari per rilasciare il servizio in modo più efficacie e flessibile che, eventualmente in operazione, può allineare i benefici dei clienti e delle parti interessate. L’iniziativa DFFS, così come tanti altri “frameworks” per la qualità, implica una trasformazione culturale per l’organizzazione. Fino a un certo punto questo progetto è una linea di base per il miglioramento delle prestazioni e il suo processo di sviluppo può essere replicato in tante altre aree di processo all’interno dell’organizzazione.
Application of design for Six Sigma in a photovoltaic project : TecnoWorld case
NAVA SANCHEZ, GABRIELA;SOTO LOPEZ, RUBEN DARIO
2015/2016
Abstract
TecnoWorld (TW) is a family run company focused on engineering & service industry, currently organized with two Business Units (BU). The first cater the electric power Industry with service solutions across the power generation, transmission and distribution value chain while the second is designated as automation BU providing designed services for industrial processes productivity and efficiency optimization. With over 20 years within the energy industry, TW has decided to endeavor into renewable energies segment, by adding a BU focused in photovoltaic systems. Following the challenging launch of automation BU operations in the year 2010, the general manager with a proactive management step to evaluate alternative initiatives to be able to completely understand the process steps, capabilities and performance measurements of the service-product to ensure meeting the customer requirements at launch. Therefore in the last quarter of 2015 a team was created to undertake the project of implementing Design for Six Sigma (DFSS), which is an initiative used to create service functions at six sigma levels that provides the perspective and tools to achieve low defects over long-term operational opportunities. DFSS targets a new service introduction by deriving and integrating tools and methods to reduce vulnerabilities in both conceptual and process areas. The project follows the five development phases; define, measure, analyze, design and verify (DMADV). However the last phase “Verify” can only be applied when TW opens for business at the beginning of 2017, consequently the results of this phase are not presented in this project. After the “Define” phase where the business and project goals and constraints were described, the following phases are based mainly on the Quality Function Deployment (QFD), best described as a closed loop of the design activities, represented in figure 1. A= Forward customer analysis; all the customer input was arranged through a grouping technique that operates on the basis of intuitive similarities detected from the standalone ideas to arrangements of classes of ideas, which then were ranked accordingly to its relative importance, to be used as a baseline for the design activities and further for customer satisfaction evaluation. B= QFD analysis; this planning tool allowed the flow-down of high-level customer needs through the exploration of the relationships between quality characteristics expressed by the customer and substitute quality requirements expressed in engineering terms. The use of house of the quality (HOQ) resulted the definition of the service functional requirements. E= DFSS tools and concepts; different tools were selected to explore more in-depth the company´s functions, to create service solutions based on the selected functional requirements, with a quality defined by the customer and to prevent performance variability and defects. D= Customer satisfaction; this step represents the “Verify” phase of the initiative and cannot be develop because at the moment TW is still structuring the complete set of functions, to launch the BU by the beginning of 2017. Nevertheless the initiative suggests to do a backward analysis and an ongoing monitoring and validation process of the designed solutions, based on the findings on customer and business needs. BDE= the team´s analytical capabilities should cope with the ability to synthesize concepts and ensure customer expectations are met and are embedded into the designed solutions. The C corresponds to the appropriate implementation of controls to ensure that the design continues to perform as expected and anomalies are addresses as soon as they are identified This project created the conceptual and detailed designs of the service solutions of those selected functional requirements; Knowledge Management, Design of the integrated system, Compliance audit and Project Management, to deliver the most efficient and flexible manner. Eventually will align the benefits for customers and stakeholders in operation. The DFSS initiative as many other quality frameworks implies a cultural transformation for the organization. To some extents is the baseline for performance improvement and its development process can be replicated to any other area or process within the organization.| File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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