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The OCAP

benefits are experienced by production supervisors and eąuipment maintenance technicians.

The manufacturing processes benefit from increased efficiency. In the past, an out-of-control condition meant that the process stopped until an engineer or maintenance technician could fix it. Even though the engineers and technicians greatly understand the processes and mechanics, their fixes were not systematic or repeatable. With the operator performing most or all of the OCAP, downtime is greatly reduced and response to out-of-control situations is predictable and effective. True efficiency comes from effective management of unplanned events, which the OCAP provides.

The OCAP is an ideał problem-solving tool for process problems because it reacts to out-of-control points. The OCAP and control chart work together to bridle over-adjustment, which positively affects process and machinę uptime.

OCAPs standardize the best problem-solving approaches for the most skilled and successful problem solvers. Even if the problem solvers transfer to another organization, their problem-solving legacy lives on in the OCAP. The type of crises avoidance and management can be the difference between a successful organization and one that is continually scrambling to react to the latest problem.

An Ideał Companion

The OCAP provides a repeatable response to out-of-control situations. It can easily be analyzed and improved, minimizing effort in identifying and eliminating special causes of variability. It empowers operators while giving technicians, supervisors, and engineers morę time for off-line analysis and process improvement. The OCAP is the ideał companion to the favorite process control tool of U.S. industry: the control chart.

References

Donald J. Wheeler and David S. Chambers, Understanding Statistical Process Control, (Knoxville, TX: Keith Press, 1986), p. 18.

A. H. Jaehn, “Zonę Control Charts-SPC Madę Easy,” Quality, October 1987, p. 51.