Strategic Quality Focus Nets 100 million Practice: Strategic Quality Focus Challenge A multi-billion dollar automotive supplier was on the brink of losing its OEM customer since it was unable to meet its quality requirement. They sought a strategic quality focus to increase their quality levels and asked ASI Consulting Group to help. ASI Solution After our first analysis, it was clear to the team that the company needed to implement DFSS in order to reach their strategic quality focus. ASI's Subir Chowdhury developed the concept in his 2005 book, "Design for Six Sigma." ASI has maintained a high-level understanding of implementation and requirements. We conducted a comprehensive review of the client's quality practices and developed an implementation [...]

Paradigm Change In Approach Through DFSS Practice / Industry: DFSS Challenge An automotive supplier was facing an intense pressure to reduce emission from its fuel handling system. Many of its previous efforts to confront this problem failed. This was of strategic importance to the company and ASI was called for its expertise to solve this problem. ASI Solution ASI worked with client's team of engineers to design an optimization strategy using DFSS. Within two months, a design that met all requirements was executed. Achieved Benefit Our implementation of DFSS translated into substantial cost savings of several million dollars. The future warranty cost avoidance also contributed several million dollars.

Enterprise Implementation Practice / Industry: Electronics/High Tech Challenge The Company suffered major setbacks due to lower cost, higher quality products offered by numerous competitors. In spite of rapidly declining profits, corporate management did not resort to panic cost cutting. Rather, the top management team devoted several months to study competitive offerings and benchmark engineering & manufacturing methods in non-competitive companies. Armed with a new strategy derived from the study of enterprise implementation, the CEO set the goal of reversing this trend and becoming the market leader. ASI Solution To achieve this objective, the company selected ASI-CG as a partner to help with their enterprise implementation. The first stage was to reinvent the engineering and manufacturing capability [...]

DFSS Helps To Achieve Company Vision Practice / Industry: DFSS Challenge An Asian automotive OEM was No.8 in sales worldwide. The CEO of the company announced it is targeting to become No.5 worldwide. In order to accomplish this goal, the company's execute vice president of engineering recognized a need to change its engineering culture. ASI-CG was called to help. ASI Solution DFSS (Design for Six Sigma) has been deployed before to address similar challenges. Armed with client's vision and leadership commitment, ASI-CG transformed the culture. Changing the hearts and minds of the technical staff was a huge challenge and ASI-CG started with the top executive team. The commitment from senior management allowed for all sixty technical [...]

DFSS Helps Leverage New Market Opportunities Practice / Industry: DFSS Challenge The Company was attempting to expand out of the automotive market but was having difficulty translating their engine system experience from automotive applications to other engine applications. The current engineering process was not allowing the company to be competitive in this new market. ASI Solution DFSS (Design For Six Sigma) was first introduced in 2005 by ASI. The client's new engineering group needed new engineering processes; ASI-GC utilized its extensive knowledge of DFSS. Management support for these new methods was skeptical at first. The group utilized the DFSS methodologies on the target market products. The result for the group was that they were able to [...]

DFSS Aids New Product Development Practice / Industry: DFSS Challenge An office product company was examining digital electronic copier implementations. New electronic implementations created problems with new features and functions. How could the thousands of potential new features and functions be narrowed down to those that were important to future customers? This seemingly unknown answer slowed development while competitors were preparing to launch their digital copiers. ASI Solution DFSS has been an ASI tool since the first book on the subject: Design For Six Sigma in 2005. Using DFSS methodology, ASI-CG helped the corporation understand that the Voice of the Customer (VOC), Quality Function Deployment, and Concept Development Methodologies could help turn technological into products customers [...]