During the recent years, the major driving forces of customer preference, vehicle safety, environmental protection, and flat demand for new cars led to a proliferation of car models and associated price reduction in the auto supply chain. To react to the complex and competitive environment, auto suppliers are urgent to conduct continual improvement (CI) in an effective and systematic way. Thus, this paper presents a framework for CI. The Integrated Development System is proposed to integrate both capability maturity model integration and six-sigma approach. By implementing the framework, an automaker can establish a solid process-based management system, identify critical processes, and optimize these processes. For demonstrating the application of this framework, a case study is presented and the result shows that all expected processes' performance targets are achieved, which has dramatically improved by 70 % compared with the past records. Apparently, the proposed framework would act as a useful reference to improve an organization's process maturity.


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    Title :

    A continual improvement framework with integration of CMMI and six-sigma model for auto industry


    Additional title:

    Ein Grundgerüst zur ständigen Verbesserung unter Integration eines CMMI- und Sechs-Sigma-Modells für die Autoindustrie


    Contributors:


    Publication date :

    2009


    Size :

    19 Seiten, 9 Bilder, 6 Tabellen, 64 Quellen




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English




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