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ProcessDoctor & Six Sigma

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ProcessDoctor and Six Sigma
Effective process control is pivotal to the success of the Six Sigma program in your process plant. Tighter control means reduced variance in the process, allowing you to operate closer to desired process and product quality constraints. The control assets in your plant were originally engineered to keep the variance in your process at levels that allow the plant to operate near design specifications. Unfortunately, control performance decays over time, allowing variance to creep back into the process. To complicate matters, your plant contains hundreds, or even thousands of control loops and several Advanced Process Control applications. Because engineering and maintenance resources are limited, its challenging to identify problems to keep plant performance at its optimum level.

Bring Visibility to Six Sigma Improvements

ProcessDoctor Online provides the tools you need to bring visibility to your efforts through automated analysis and reporting. Web-delivered reports clearly show the benefits generated and sustained by your program, while easy-to-read displays show you your progress at a glance -- allowing you to spend more time implementing improvements and less time looking for answers.

Stay on Track to Excellence

By continuously monitoring your process, you can progressively reduce variance. ProcessDoctor allows you to schedule automatically-generated performance reports, which help you to track your progress, identify new opportunities for improvement, and ensure that you reach your Six Sigma goals.

DMAIC Methodology

As Six Sigma professionals, we reduce the variance in the process in order to improve the process capability (Cp) ProcessDoctor Online follows the DMAIC roadmap for problem solving and process control improvement activities.

Six Sigma DMAIC methodology Use ProcessDoctor to.

Define the opportunity and project goals Identify opportunities to increase throughput, reduce quality variations, and improve yields and conversions through improved process control. Automatically connect to plant historical data and measure process variance online. Measure current control performance. Determine Process Performance, Capability and Sigma Baselines.

Measure the process to determine current performance

Analyze the process to identify the root cause of poor performance

Identify the worst performing loops and their current financial impact to the operating unit. Identify the root causes of poor control performance, such as tuning, disturbances, valve stiction, or operator interventions. Validate control improvements by measuring the reduction in process variance, and improvements in quality, yield, and throughput. Verify benefits and cost savings. Monitor control performance to sustain benefits and cost savings. Provide automated scheduled control performance reports.

Improve Process Performance by eliminating variability Control Future Performance

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