Reduction of Plastic Film Waste Using Quality Control Tools

Abstract

The field of quality undergoes significant changes as reflected by changes in its definition, approaches, techniques, and scope of application. Changes in customer expectation. This also calls for special attention to the engineering aspects of quality. The aims of this work is to reduce plastic waste at Max Plastic Factory by identifying major causes of the defect problem and to adopt solutions by using quality techniques. In this work flow chart was applied to provide a diagrammatic picture of the focused process, Ishikawa Diagram was also used to determine the breakdown of the potential causes of the material problems, machine, method, etc. While control charts were used to evaluate and summarize the results. After applying quality tools, the percentage of plastic waste is reduced from 25% to 8.6%, which is considered a huge reduction in shorter time. Thus using quality tools had helped to evaluate, analyze and control the production process and reduce waste during production cycle.