SInce this is my first experience in the auto industry I am starting to become more involved in monitoring the PPM rate for certian products we produce.
A question I have is what is generally an acceptable PPM rate for the industry.
Just a little background, the parts in question are send to our customer, who welds them onto another part, preps them, and sends them onto one of the big 3. We currenty produce about 100,000 parts per week to send to them.
at the WORSE case senario we are looking at about 9 defects per 100,000 which puts us at around 90 PPM. And again this is worse case.
Best case I believe we are looking at 3 per 100,000 (where we want to be) which is 30 PPM.
The problem is, our customer is trying to demand a 100% 0 defect rate.
With our machines and processes this is just not possible. There are already several checks in place to help ensure that defects do not make it to the customer, but the process is not error proof, it's still a machine and we still use operators.
So I may take another rout with dealing with this, but I need more ammo so I am trying to do more research on accesptable PPM rates for the big 3.
Thanks
G.
A question I have is what is generally an acceptable PPM rate for the industry.
Just a little background, the parts in question are send to our customer, who welds them onto another part, preps them, and sends them onto one of the big 3. We currenty produce about 100,000 parts per week to send to them.
at the WORSE case senario we are looking at about 9 defects per 100,000 which puts us at around 90 PPM. And again this is worse case.
Best case I believe we are looking at 3 per 100,000 (where we want to be) which is 30 PPM.
The problem is, our customer is trying to demand a 100% 0 defect rate.
With our machines and processes this is just not possible. There are already several checks in place to help ensure that defects do not make it to the customer, but the process is not error proof, it's still a machine and we still use operators.
So I may take another rout with dealing with this, but I need more ammo so I am trying to do more research on accesptable PPM rates for the big 3.
Thanks
G.