Lean Maintenance - Six Sigma's DMAIC guideline serving as a roadmap

[Jim Howe]

In this months issue of Manufacturing Engineering there is a guest editorial on Lean maintenance:
http://www.sme.org/cgi-bin/get-mag.p...005&ARTME&SME&

In this article The author talks about Six Sigma's DMAIC guideline serving as a roadmap for this procedure. Are there any covers who have been involved in this kind of approach to maintenance and what has been your experience with it?

[qualitytrec]

Though many of us are probably aware I include the definitions to the acronymn here.

In thw article the author defines the Six Sigma's DMAIC as:

D--Define the problem
M--Measure the problem
A --Analyze how the problem can be eliminated
I--Implement the solution
C--Control the solution to ensure its continuance and improvement, if practical

I am looking forward to responses to this as we are concidering implementation of this discipline here.

Mark

[Jim Howe]

Thanks Mark, I have also read that some will use SPC charts on there machines. Is this part and parcel to the DMAIC? I have read of a "predictive maintenance" that is based on measurements and analysis of failures, I believe someone else called it "charting". I am somewhat confused about the whole deal and looking for insight.

[cncmarine]

its a continuious improvement model.

Which are lean, six sigma,ISO ETC.