Bayfield Mud Case Study

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BASIC REQUIREMENTS IN THE CASE STUDY 1. ABSTRACT 2. INTRODUCTION a. OBJECTIVES b. SCOPE AND LIMITATIONS 3. STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM 4. REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE 5. METHODS OF DATA ANALYSIS 6. DATA PRESENTATION AND ANALYSIS 7. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION 8. RECOMMENDATIONS 9. CONCLUSION AND AREAS FOR FUTURE STUDIES 10. REFERENCES 11. APPENDICES Follow the format for IEEE Journals. You may add subparts if find necessary. Large tables and figures must be placed at the top of the page in single column, centered. Note: Do not forget the process capability for variable CCs. CASE STUDY NO. 1 Westover Electrical, Inc., is a medium-size Houston manufacturer of wire windings used in making electric motors. Joe Wilson, VP operations, has experienced an increasing problem with rejected product found during the manufacturing operation. "I’m not sure where to begin," admitted Joe at the weekly meeting with his boss. "Rejects in the Winding Department have been killing us the past two months. Nobody in operations has any idea why. I have just brought in a consultant, Roger Gagnon, to take a look at the situation and make recommendations about how we can find out what is going on. I don’t expect Roger to make technical recommendations–just see if he can point us in the right direction." Gagnon’s first stop later that day was the production floor. His discussions with the production supervisors in the Winding Department indicated that they had no real grasp of what the problem was or what to do to correct it. A tour of the winding operation indicated that there were three machines that wound wire onto plastic cores to produce the primary and secondary electric motor windings. After inspection by quality control (QC), these windings then went to the Packaging Department. Packaging personnel, Gagnon found, inspect

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