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    and Design Engineering ‘Module: Quality & Reliability 4 (QURL3144) Please read this document in ful before commencing your project. Please ensure you ‘meet these guidelines in ul to maximise your marks in ths assignment. Good lick with ‘Sem 2016-17 Continuous Assessment Assignment No.1: Application of Structured Problom Solving (DMAIC, Pareto, Fishbone & Root Catse Analysis (5W,1H)) ‘This isa team exercise and should be undertaken in teams (leams are outined below), Each {eam is given a story and an associated xlsx spreadsheet of data. They ae to use both of ‘hese to undertake the assignment Each students required to engage wit their team member to (Apply he DMAIC approach tothe case study (i) Propare short comprehensive report which describes the goal ofthe teams Work, team’s measurement ofthe curent situation, the analysis ofthe situation, and your specific recommended improvement actions and the impact ofthese. acommendatios in light ofthe goals (il) Frepare a set of powerpoint slides (minimum 10 slides 8 maximum 16 slides) which support a possible presentation tothe managing director outlining the work «one logically presented & which describe the logical methodology undertaken through measurement & analysis and which include the specifo, ecommendations made and the impact ofthese recommendations. You are ‘paced to provide the slides (4-6 slides per page is recommended) & attach & hardeopy ofthese tothe end of your report Latest Due Dat + Wednesday March 8 a Spm (Please note in particular Institute regulations do not permit any student to submit work as ther own f thas been Copied from another student, former student or te interet(plaglarsm). In such cases, the snork submited is classified as legal and vl result tale ofthe coursework element of this medul (for both the provider of the ilogal work where appropriate and aso forthe lserrecpien). Iti also requirement that such offences be brought tothe attention of the appropriate authorities. They will take any additional action which they deem hecessary. All submited coursework wil therefore be very carefully cruised for any Inleation o” plagiarism. Word court required + There is no specie word count expected. However, clearly the report should ‘comprehensively present the logic underpinning the measurement, oot cause analysis & specie improvement propussis which the team are making, ‘Submission Medium “+ Hardeopy’ isthe only acceptable medium of submission for correcting purposes {Electronic submission of Final copy will ot be deemed to have been submited as it does not meet the require format ‘Submission Process “The prefened method of submission i ito Donal McHale's “pigeon hole” on or before the clue date. This pigeon hole i nthe bottom row (second column from the outside) of pigeon Foles onthe wall afew metres avay from room 240. Please use this method i possibe. ‘Othoris, the report can be handed to Donal McHale at lectures before March 4" tant Begin as soon as possibe by reading the case study and scheduling a team meeting Report Planning & Formatting ‘A eport template is avaiable to you and you are encouraged to use it Best practice in report wring ie available in ‘Writing A Repor: A Beginners Guide For Engineers" Please read and Keep it cose by when drafting your report. 1+ The sequence of presentation of your material in should be planned carefully by you. ‘This will ensure a logical, well sequenced presentation. Its important that the sequence of information as presented does not appear tothe reader as disjointed or unbalanced. «+ Dung the drat phase, time should be taken to ensure suitable sentence structure, ‘paling grammar, punctuation and referencing of research, “The following points are important ‘+ Each report should have a covert page the repor te, team members names andcourse, the module ite, lecturer's name, date on which the report was submited andthe report's word count ‘+ Thelniraducon (nat on a separate page) should outline the structure ofthe report ‘+ Heating (wth a consistent style) can be used for each sub-section within the report ‘+ Themain body ofthe text shouldbe writen in Times New Roman 12 Point Foot. ‘+ 1.5 pacing should be used in he paragraphs. ‘+ Page numbers should be proved al the botiom ofthe text inthe centre (but net on ‘the ile page) + Itisabsolutely expected that you wil have spell checked the document before. ‘submission Teamwork in | suggest that each individual reads the ease study a number of times prior to intially ‘mooting as a group, ‘Subseasertly, there willbe a need to agree what the goal oftheir work is and then ‘examine the data & develop some approaches to measuring the data (ram the ‘spreacsheet). The team should assign this work amongst al three & develop relevant ‘raphical preseniations fr al te data. Even at this stage, | suggest thatthe team begin te strucure and populate ther report template (Once al the relevant measurements have been completed, the team need to meet again (having been very familiar vith the story & systematically evaluate the root causes (ating te story deta & the data) using both Fishbone Diagrams and also applying the '5W apgroach with care. This root cause analysis tkely tobe a group acti where the root cause methodology is applied and the root causes taking account ofthe measurement evidence aeady available and aso the stay. The outcome expected from this stage is an agreement on key “foot causes" from allteam members, Once ‘completed this team then need to writeup ths stage oftheir work demonstrating that it has been a systematic approach which followed logical fom the measurement stage, “The nest stage requires the team to develop very specic actions for indidual inthe ‘company to best adcress the specic rot causes already agreed in the analysis. These ‘should sso be agreed by al team members and the actions should be “robust” i.e. the {eam should be able to defend these asthe most appropriate specific actons needed row. Ths stage then needs tobe written up, ‘The tean then need to evaluate the impact of ther improvement proposals (f Implemented) & compare this wth their inital goal. It should be made clear tothe reader (the MO! the impact of the specific proposals being made. Note: The MD is not interested ina largo number of proposals. He needs to have al the main proposals (ypcally 5-8 max) to deal with the major underying root causes. Finally, the team need to ensure thee reports professionally organised and they need to plan the optimum side sequence and prepare the sides necessary fora professional presentation. A professional presentation should bring clarity tothe listener and show logical follow-up through of ideas. the Report On A: “There ae four wocks availabe to complet the assignment. For each week af the assignment, the foam need to agree the percentage of the work done by each person in that week eg, Ia week 1, feverybody did the same amount of werk on the assignment, then ‘everybody can put in 33.3%, If however, one person did al the Week 1 work then one person can put in 100% and the other two get 0%, The template below shoul be filed out bythe tea on an agreed basis based onthe contribution by each persn and this needs to be provided immediately aftr the Table of Contents in the report ‘Student Name [ Sudent Name 4 [Student Name [BRIS Feba 333% "si-22" Febwuaty 22 February 1a Feb Feb ‘average Overall % Contution Late penaities, Its important fr your marks that you undertake this work in a ciget timely fashion so that you submita quality repor. A strict deacine wil be enforced for this submission. Late submissiors willbe penalised severely. For ever individual day (or part thereof the ‘exercise slate, the student team vil lose 20% ofthe overall mars. For instance, if you fubmit at om on the due day, you vill be marked out of 80%. Please adhere to the

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