Students Must Mention Question I Have A Quality M

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Students Must Mention Question I Have A Quality M

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  • The Assignment must be submitted on Blackboard (WORD format only) via allocated folder.
  • Assignments submitted through email will not be accepted.
  • Students are advised to make their work clear and well presented, marks may be reduced for poor presentation. This includes filling your information on the cover page.
  • Students must mention question number clearly in their answer.
  • Late submission will NOT be accepted.
  • Avoid plagiarism, the work should be in your own words, copying from students or other resources without proper referencing will result in ZERO marks. No exceptions.
  • All answered must be typed using Times New Roman (size 12, double-spaced) font. No pictures containing text will be accepted and will be considered plagiarism).
  • The words limit for the written report is between 1200 – 1400 words.
  • The students are encouraged to relate the project content to the course materials from chapters ( 13 , 14 , 15 , 16 , 17 )
  • Submissions without this cover page will NOT be accepted.
  • Assignment -2 should be submitted on or before the end of Week-12.

ASSIGNMENT-2

DMAIC / Six-Sigma Project

In this assessment, the students are required to implement DMAIC / Six Sigma projects. Upon the completion of the projects, instructors should be able to test the students` understanding of major part of the course materials.

Learning Outcome:

  1. Develop an appreciation of quality management theory, principles, and practices. (LO: 1.1 & 1.2)
  2. Use quality improvement tools and practices for continuous improvement. (LO: 3.5 & 3.8).
  3. Develop strategies for organizational change and transformation. (LO: 4.5 & 4.6)

Project Structure:

A.No

Marks

Project Report

10

DMAIC / Six-Sigma Project

During the process of projects implementation, hypothetically for the assessment`s purposes, the picture your instructor as a chief executive officer of a company at any industry of your choice.

In order to gain the CEO` approval for quality improvement project (Six Sigma) and compete for full project`s sponsorship, student is required to provide a detailed project information to convince the instructor – supposedly the (CEO) to choose and support your project.

Guidance for the project report:

The report must include the following:

  1. Product or Service Information:

Select an actual Product or Service from any local/international company that you would like to improve/change, and provide the following Information:

  • The product or service general information such as name, features, value to customers..ect.
  • Brief history about the chosen product or service (formation, sales, previous changes).
  1. The necessity for change :
  • The reasons behind the improvement decision, each group asked to present no less than two reasons why they think the change is important for their product /service (Leadership, Competitors Technological advances, Training requirements, Rules and regulations, Customer demands).
  1. Define Stage ( Planning) :
  • Define the project’s scope, goals, and objectives and its team members and sponsors ( Project charter )
  • Define the current and the desired status, the project scheduling.
  • Define the stakeholders affected by the project such as (employees, society, customers, stockholders, suppliers…etc)
  • Identify the team you need and the members` functions that will help you throughout the project.
  • What method you plan to use for defining the project (Work Breakdown Structure, Pareto Diagrams) and why?
  1. Measure Stage:
  • Define the new process inputs, actions and desired outputs. (Hint : Process flowchart can be used to visualize the process)
  • Define measurement Systems Analysis tool, to illustrate use measurements scales such as Nominal , Ordinal , Interval , Ratio. In addition, explain the reason for use.
  1. Analyze Stage:
  • Discuss no less than two conditions that might hinder the project progression (process variation) using one of tools mentioned in chapter (15 – Analyze Stage).
  • Describe the new value delivered to the customers upon the successful implementation of the project.
  1. Improve / Design stage:
  • Present no more than two condition that can be altered to make the desired change ( cost , operation, human resource).
  • Discuss one to two techniques you plan to use to improve the efficiency of process such as lean tools, 5S …etc.
  1. Control Stage:
  • Identify two methods that the team can use to evaluate performance after the project completion.
  • Document two to three learned lessons from the process ( This part could be connected to the overall project experience )

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