Improving Surface Finish Quality of Plastic Molds via VSM and DMAIC Integration

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Integrating value stream mapping and DMAIC significantly enhances surface finish quality in plastic molding, highlighting operational inefficiencies.

Surface finish quality improves, addressing factors causing a 52-day lead time and 75% success rate.
The analysis identified critical issues, including defects and inappropriate processing contributing to performance gaps.
An integrated DMAIC-DVSM approach assessed operator capability, equipment failures, and material procurement delays.
The roadmap enables actionable improvements that could serve as a model for similar manufacturing challenges.

Kholil et al. (2025) studied this question.

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Integrating value stream mapping and DMAIC significantly enhances surface finish quality in plastic molding, highlighting operational inefficiencies.