Thesis
An Improvement proposal for mismatch condition problem in dragon test system
Fecha
2018-06Autor
Carpio Binuya, Bernard
Institución
Resumen
Equipment availability in a Manufacturing company is one of the three factors to
measure overall equipment effectiveness (OEE). It is the percentage of time that
equipment is operating compared to the planned time of operation or available
downtime losses (Munro, Ramu, & Zrymiak, 2015). The other factors that contribute to
the OEE are performance and quality as shown in equation (a). All the factors in this
project will be directed to availability.
OEE = Availability x Performance x Quality (a)
Availability is the ability of the company to utilize resources in order to produce
more products. It is also a metric that can be used to measure the performance and to
effectively asses company’s own growth. Skyworks is working continuous to improve
the OEE that would directly impact the gross margin (GM). Gross margin is a company's
total sales revenue minus its cost of goods sold, divided by total sales revenue,
expressed as a percentage (Investopedia.com, n.d.). As mentioned, the more
availability, the more goods to be produced thus increasing the sales.
The general objective of this project is to search and define the causes of the
downtime and make recommendations to eliminate or minimize such factors. The
project will be focused on identifying different factors that affect the productivity and
measures its contribution to the total downtime.
This document presents the project investigation that consists of the definition
and plan of the problem development. Some technical terms are well explained in the
later part of the document based from credible sources. Case studies are also to
explore in relation with this project.