Quality Assurance Production Based Problem: A Process Improvement in the Rolling Mill Line for Steel Manufacturing Company in the Philippines

Abstract

Productivity among manufacturing production lines can be considered as a crucial part since this can result in an improved production and utilization of the available resources. Competition intensifies and this compels engineers to continually seek for process improvement. Process improvement denotes to turning a process to more effective, efficient, and transparent. As for the steel manufacturing company, one major concern is the downtime occurrences which had a large impact on their productivity. Necessary data were gathered through problem solving tools to show the company’s present condition. To reduce the clerical time needed, work sampling was utilized. It has been found out that the company cannot keep up with the projected production run and failed to produce forty (40) metric tons per hour. From the present methods, proposed methods were made by the researchers to solve the existing problems in the company resulting to less downtime savings, increase the efficiency of the plant and the operator, and increase their productivity per unit of time.