Dec 24 2014
Hong Kong Power Company Holds QC Circle Convention | Quality Alchemist
CLP Power Quality Control Circle (QCC) Convention was established in 2002. It aims to offer our staff a platform to submit any creative ideas they may have to improve processes, procedures and overall operations in the form of a proposal. CLPP QCC Convention is one of key quality culture activities and HKSQ exco members were honored to be invited as guests for the Convention. Moreover, our former chairman Dr. Aaron Tong was one of judges.
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The QC circle, born in Japan in the early 1960s and the object of a short-lived fad in the US and Europe in the 1980s, lives on as a useful tool in organizations that stuck with it, including many companies in Japan, China, India, and other Asian countries.
CLP Power has been an electrical utility serving Hong Kong for 100 years. In the jury that awarded prizes to circle projects at this convention was my friend Aaron Tong, former chair of the Hong Kong Society for Quality (HKSQ).
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Jan 14 2015
Not Exactly Poka-Yoke and Chaku-Chaku
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An interesting video, but “Poka-Yoke” and “Chaku-Chaku” don’t mean what the narration says they do. And they are not “Japanese” methods but methods invented by specific individuals in specific companies that happened to be in Japan. Likewise, the assembly line is not an “American” method but a method invented by P.E. Martin, Charles Sorensen and others at Ford.
“Poka-Yoke” doesn’t just mean “correct.” More specifically, a Poka-Yoke is a device integrated in the production process to prevent human error or detect it immediately without adding any labor. Checking bar codes on parts, as shown in a video, doesn’t qualify as a Poka-Yoke because it adds labor, and error prevention devices that add labor are ineffective because they are by-passed under pressure.
The video shows an operator attending to a sequence of tasks and calls it “Chaku-Chaku.” There is, however, ,more to Chaku-Chaku than this, such as automatic processing at each station, with automatic unloading and chutes between stations, so that the work of the operator is focused on checking the part after an operation and loading it into the next.
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By Michel Baudin • Blog clippings 3 • Tags: Chaku-Chaku, Poka-Yoke