Leveraging Six Sigma with industrial engineering tools in crateless retort production

International Journal of Production Research

Volumn 46, Issue 23, 2008, Pages 6701-6719

  Bunce, M M ^a   Wang, L ^b   Bidanda, B ^a  

^a University of Pittsburgh   (United States)

^b Iowa State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Canning; Crateless retort; Design of experiments; Hypothesis testing; Root cause analysis; Six Sigma

Indexed keywords

CLOSED LOOP CONTROL SYSTEMS; CONTROL SYSTEMS; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; DESIGN OF EXPERIMENTS; EXPERIMENTS; INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING; WORK SIMPLIFICATION;

ANALYSIS TOOLS; CLOSED-LOOP CONTROLS; CRATELESS RETORT; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING TOOLS; MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS; PRODUCTION SYSTEMS; ROOT-CAUSE ANALYSES; ROOT-CAUSE ANALYSIS; SIX SIGMA; SIX SIGMA TECHNIQUES; SIX SIGMAS;

FAULT DETECTION;

EID: 54349114677     PISSN: 00207543     EISSN: 1366588X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00207540802230520     Document Type: Article

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