Factory Quick Assessment Model - Assessment a small factory (<50 employee)

[kashizadeh]

Hi every one
I have problem and be glad if every one help me!
I want design a "small and medium factory quick assessment "model (I mean I want can assessment a small factory (<50 employee) in 3 or 4 hour).
Result of this assessment should prepare solutions (improvement projects) for increase quality of products.
Thanks,

[Coury Ferguson]

Can anyone help here?

[harry]

Originally Posted by kashizadeh

..................... Result of this assessment should prepare solutions (improvement projects) for increase quality of products.
Thanks,

If your objective is quality improvement, some of the things that you should look into are:

Quality Management system if any
If no, whether they are adopting any good manufacturing practices
Next you may want to look at the process controls and product controls
Finally, the people or competency issues

[Colpart]

You say that you want to assess a company but not what you want to assess against. There has to be criteria against which you will asses or the results could end up just being opinion.

The criteria could include a standard (e.g. ISO 9001); procedures; regulatory requirements; contractual requirements; etc.

[wmarhel]

If I want to quickly assess an operation, I'm going to take a walk. Things such as lot's of inventory or WIP (work-in-progress), the condition of the equipment, elements of a visual workplace are key aspects.

If I'm interested in trying to understand their maintenance program, then the first place I'll walk is their spare parts room. If they aren't taking care of their spare parts, then it is unlikely they are taking care of anything else.

As a previous poster mentioned, what are you really looking to accomplish with this assessment?

Wayne

[Duke Okes]

- what is purpose of assessment (this will drive what you assess to)?
- could assess performance (e.g., trends in sales, profitability, cost of quality, scrap/rework rates, productivity, inventory turns, ...)
- could assess compliance (e.g., customer requirements, regulatory requirements, company policies/procedures)

[kashizadeh]

tanks all of peoples who post a message,
really i want design a assessment questionnaire to assess sme`s(small and medium enterprises) company.
all of this company have not ISO and we can not collect a data or information about results such ad sells trends and ...
many of this company have not qualify staff and management of this company maybe be poor.
please help me and offer some criteria for design this questionnaire.
for example "Wayne" help me and i can use his criteria such as lot's of inventory or WIP in factory in my questionnaire .
please be attention, i do not assess this factory against ISO or EFQM or another model or standards, i want design a questionnaire that can help to simple SME company in 3rd world country.
in this country we can not collect so many data in factory or in business area.
our purpose of assessment is offer some improvement project to SME company that they can work better and can produce quality product.

[wmarhel]

I'll search through some of my electronic files and see what I can come up.

Wayne