Ingenieur Vol 61 January-March 2015 | Page 73

may be applied to assess the work flow and eliminate the non value-added tasks and free the human effort from redundant inspections. actions are recommended to ensure that all implemented improvements are maintained, thus prevent IF, EF and A failure. iii. Improving inspector skills and introducing multitasking where inspectors become competent to perform variety of evaluating jobs. This will help rationalise the number of inspectors without sacrificing any required inspection work. ii. Implementing Total Preventive Maintenance or TPM throughout the production line. TPM helps to develop operators to be self sufficient in managing machine and improve machine overall equipment efficiency or OEE. It helps to prevent machine breakdown which is one of the main contributors of P