Being as company established in Negeri Sembilan state. We play our role and responsible for the social in this state.

We has being monitored since beginning of the Covid-19 arrive in Malaysia on month of March 2020. Since then we are following Government SOP strickly till today. 

Today our state found positive case and rank as No. 1 in the whole country with numbers of people has contacted with Covid-19. 

Rest assure that we have work closely with our associates business partner and implement the SOP regulations obtained from Government. Up to now our associates business hasn't been affected to close. Operation is still ongoing.

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Progauge Enterprise wish you and your family in great health and stay Safe.

Wear Mask, Wash Hand and Physical Distancing all time. 

Why calibration is important and needed?

1. Is requirement of your Quality System.
2. Is about accuracy of all measuring devices.
3. Equipment accuracy will degrade over time. 
4. Typically caused by normal wear and tear. However, changes in accuracy can also be caused by electric or mechanical shock or a hazardous manufacturing environment (e.x., oils, metal chips etc.). 
5. Depending on the type of instrument and the environment in which it is being used, it may degrade very quickly or over a long period of time. 
6. The improtant mindful of calibration is that it's improves the accuracy of the measuring device. Accurate measuring devices improve product quality.

1. According to the recommendation of the manufacturer.
2. After any mechanical or electrical shock.
3. Periodically (annually, quarterly, monthly)
4. Requirement of your quality system.​

1. The hidden costs and risks with un-calibrated measuring device could be much higher than the cost of calibration. Therefore, it is recommended that the measuring instruments are calibrated regularly by a reputable company to ensure that errors associated with the measurements are in the acceptable range.

7 Waste of Lean Manufacturing series and today we talk about

Waste No. 6 - Waste of Defects

What it is?

1. Waste of correction that includes additional work implemented into the product.
2. Cause by unclear working instructions or procedure.
3. Such as unnecessarily of tolerance such as too tight that beyond machine capability to produce.
4. Inadequate training given to the operator.
5. Incapable of the machines.

How you over come it?

1. Poka Yoke can help in reducing or eliminating error produce by human.
2. Process that can be replace using automation can further assist operator in producing consistent product. 
3. Regular OJT (On Job Training), this is to instill operator knowledge of the work and upgrading skills.
4. Regular review the design of the product with value engineering or value analysis to identify opportunity of improvement.
5. Too many of over processing, Off-cut product can also lead to defects pile up and potential create mix of bad and good.

Hope above simple sharing can give you some of pointers to help your process to overcome the waste No.6 - Defects in Lean manufacturing.

By reducing defects you will improve the productivity and process efficiency and further reducing operating costs and eventually increase operating profit margin.

If you have more idea why not drops us in comment - Thanks!

Today we continue with the 7 Waste of Lean Manufacturing series.

Waste No. 3 - Waste of Motion

What it is?

1. A process that has step that is not value adding, moving is not necessarily working existed.
2. Too many motions or steps may cause by poor layout of the process.
3. Poor design of process of transferring from one process to another process.
4. Poor workplace organization.
5. Large batch sizes.

How you over come it?

1. Look back at each of your process and look for any job that burden the operator, this should be minimize.
2. Implement 5S into each of your process to look for any struggle area and improve using 5S methodology.
3. Develop a standard operating procedure to ensure the process has standardize operating.
4. Implement Single minute exchange tool (SMED) to remove wasteful motion in steps.
5. Regular check the processes for any new waste created.

This may help your process to overcome waste of motion, the waste No.3 in Lean manufacturing.

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1. Inventory consists of your excess of Raw Material, excess of Work in Progress (WIP), Finished Goods.
2. Unnecessary inventory stock up before and after in a process.
3. Lack of balance in work flow.
4. Failure to practices first in and first out.
5. Incapable processes, long changeover time and didn't follow procedure.    

1. Setup flow of product at the pull of customer
2. Practice JIT (Just In Time).
3. Implement Kanban system, used to help ensure balance the processes and prevent the build up of inventory. 
4. Re-layout processes to achieve continuously flows. 
5. Optimize your machine to be efficient and consistent output.

7 Waste of Lean Manufacturing series.

Waste No. 1 - Overproduction

Below is some example of how overproduction can happen in any of manufacturer process. So what overproduction it is?

1. Making products in too great a quantity. 
2. Unreliable processes.
3. Unstable schedule.
4. Inaccurate of forecast. 
5. Inaccurate information and not actual demand.

How you over come it?

1. Practice JIT (Just In Time)
2. Work with supplier to implement Just In time.
3. Steam line your process that provide fast output.
4. Work with customer on the actual demand of product.
5. Optimize your machine to be efficient and consistent output.

This may help your process to overcome overproduction, the waste No.1 in Lean manufacturing.

We have this series on our Facebook section in the month of April this year.
Good sharing of Lean information from us and we share again in our new website.

If your company is practicing 7 waste of lean elimination, you will overcome and excel in this time of Covid-19 pandemics.

What is 7 waste in the Lean?

1. Overproduction of goods. 
2. Inventory of process floor stack up. 
3. Too many defects. 
4. Too much of motion involve.
5. Waiting time too long.
6. Over processing of your goods.
7. Transportation takes longer time.

Have these 7 waste of lean exist in your process. Time to use this methodology to eliminate.

Cheers!

Previous we have talk about Measurement uncertainty. Today we touch on source of the uncertainty coming from.

The uncertainty of the result of a measurement reflects the lack of knowledge of the value of the measurement.

Here we list out the possible sources of uncertainty:

1. Incomplete definitions of the measurand. 
2. Imperfect realisation of the definition of the measurand. 
3. Sampling - the sample measured may not represent the defined measurand. 
4. Inadequate knowledge of the effect of environmental conditions on the measurement procedure. 
5. Personal bias in reading analogue instrument. 
6. Instrument resolution or discrimination threshold.

Above is possible can lead to source of uncertainty happen. Reduce above can help to obtain proper measurement. 

• System - Equipment, Standard Used
• Human - Skill, Experience
• Procedure - Method used
• Environment - Temperature, Humidity

• System Uncertainties

• Random Uncertainties

• Temperature

• Humidity

Instrument are calibrated to make them accurate within the manufacturer's specification. Accuracy is an essential factor in instrument performance. In instrument calibration "accuracy" has a special meaning.

• The closeness of the agreement between the result of a measurement and the the true value of the measurement. 

A precise instrument will produce the same representation or output every time it receives an identical input.

Repeatability of measurement

The closeness of the agreement between the result of successive measurements of the same measurement carried out subjected to the following:

• Same method of measurement
• Same observer 
• Same measuring instrument
• Same location 
• Same condition of use 
• Repetition over a short period of time 

Reproducibility of measurement

The closeness of agreement between the result of measurements of the same measured, where the measurements are carried out under changed conditions such as:

• Principle or method of measurement
• Observer 
• Measuring instrument 
• Location 
• Condition of use 
• Time. 

Error of measurement

The result of measurement minus the of the measurand. 

Correction

The value which, added algebraically to the uncorrected result of a measurement, compensated for an assumed systematic error. 

Uncertainty of measurement

At estimate characterising the range of values within the true value of measurand lies.

Traceability

The property of a result of a measurement whereby it can be related to appropriate standards, generally international or national standards. 

All measuring equipment should be traceable to the National standards which are traceable to international standards. 

• It is obvious that measurement is vital importance to determine and maintain quality. 
• To produce quality measurement, one must make sure that the measuring equipment are properly maintained and regularly calibrated. 

What is calibration?

• Calibration is the accurate measurement and comparison of an instrument's input and output to a known standard.
• Instrument error can be identified and corrected. 

Why Calibrate?

Certain factor have to be considered before deciding and finalising whether an inspection or measuring instruments requires calibration or not. 

• What are the tolerance/acceptance criteria? 
• What is the level of accuracy does the measurement need to be?
• Does the outcome of the measurement decide the product acceptance/rejection?

The Importance of Recalibration

Instrument may require recalibration for a number of reasons:

• Overtime method, material, man, machine and environment condition can affect the instrument calibration.
• Calibration is usually necessary after any extended period of usage. 

• What specific property is to be investigated?
• In what unit will it be measured? (The results of the measurement will be quantified in units, therefore using the right unit is essential.)
• The measurement method that will be used. (In this respect measurement procedure, error analysis and possible external influences could be importance.)
• The measurement setup. (Such a setup will always contain a standard, a measuring device and the instrument to be measured. For accurate measurements quality devices are required. To be able to determine whether a measuring device is in good condition, it is necessary to check it at regular intervals. )