Description
Process Maps show the functional relationships between inputs and outputs. A Six Sigma Current State Process Map is a picture that identifies the steps, inputs & outputs, and other details that show how a process works. These Current State Maps provide a step-by-step picture of the process “as is.” The Map documents the hidden factors identifies opportunities for process improvement. Before we go any further, please review this 8-slide Process Map Development Guide.
What are inputs and outputs?
Inputs are the basic resources (products, material, services or information) needed to complete a task, make a product, or perform a job. Outputs are the products, material, services, or information provided to the customer (internal or external). Think of taking tomatoes (input) and making a can of tomato soup to sell to customers (output). This seems simple enough, but there are processes involved in making this can of soup.
- Y = f (x) is used to characterize a process and the functional relationship of inputs and outputs
- What does this mean? Y (outputs) equals a function of X (inputs)
- X’s are inputs
- Y’s are outputs
- Outputs are a function of inputs
- Variation in X’s cause variation in Y’s
- The product depends on the process!
- Big Y or Overall Process Output (Top Level, Process Map)
- characterizes the product at the finished stage
- a measurable or observable output characteristic
- results oriented
- Little y or In-Process Output (Detailed or Lower Level, Process Map)
- characterizes the product during each interim step of the process, prior to the finished stage
- a measurable or observable characteristic
- Big X or Process Input (Top Level, Process Map)
- an input to the overall process
- a measurable characteristic, countable, observable
- Little x or In-Process Input (Detailed or Lower Level, Process Map)
- Little x or In-Process Input
- an input to an interim step of the process
- a measurable characteristic (also countable, observable)
Before you start this assignment, download and review the Six Sigma Process Map templatewhich includes both a top and lower/detailed level process map. This template is a PowerPoint file since most Six Sigma presentations use this format. You will use this template for your assignment.
Instructions:
Assume you are a quality analyst for the same company that you used for your Project Charter in Unit 1. Go back to your Unit 1 Project Charter file. Look for the problem area in your Unit 1 Project file.
You must develop a top level, current state process map to illustrate the overall process step (inputs, and outputs) for the same problem area in your Unit 1 Project file.
Download and use the Process Map Template.
Your Six Sigma Current State, Process Map should include each of the following:
- Top Level Process Step (e.g., manufacturing air bags, cell phones)
- Boundaries, Beginning and Ending (e.g., cell phone battery procurement to installation)
- Top Level Inputs (e.g., battery or air bag raw material supplier, manufacturing or assembly)
- Top Level Outputs (e.g., defect-free cell phone, air bag)
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Assume you are a quality analyst for the same company that you used for your Project
Charter in Unit 1. Go back to your Unit 1 Project Charter file. Look for the problem area
in your Unit 1 Project file.
Inputs
The input is the speed and the load signals given to the machine. The speed and the load signal
depict the amount of the signal required to lift a given amount of force. In the robot two fans
connected directly to DC motors V 3.5 W 9 are installed, for a speed of 0.42 m / s, while making
control in the direction of movement of the robot, so that when both motors are activated
simultaneously in the same direction, the robot advances straight and if the turning direction is
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inverted in one of them, can be rotated to the right or left as appropriate. The fans are located on
the back of the structure.
Output
The output mechanism regulates the speed and the total amount of the force which can be lifted
per unit time. The machine has accelerometer as the output device which measures the amount of
the force. The triaxle accelerometer is located in the center of gravity of the robot. This sensor
therefore measures the acceleration components in the frame of the robot. To simulate the
behavior of the accelerometer virtual acceleration sensor was added to the robot was added a
noise component to this measure of acceleration.
Top Level Process Step
The use of plastic materials such as polystyrene allows the construction of structures stable in
Stanford robotic arm with a carrying capacity that enables push and encapsulated solids in a
pool, and then places them in a dry place. The prototype developed can begin to address the
problem of cleaning debris in high speed craft strain-water intake. This work demonstrates that
commercial and economic materials can provide a solution to a very serious, with the simple
integration of electronics, mechanics, sensor...