Process Reliability: Do You Have It?— What's It Worth To Your Plant To Get It

Process reliability combines new techniques from the field of reliability and six-sigma methodology to help identify areas for improvement and reduce variability in production output. Process reliability in this paper is addressed from a management perspective. Weibull probability plots are used to summarize issues and problems on one side of one sheet of paper to help prioritize corrective action for the organization. Some criteria are presented to show how to quantify issues. A contrast is made with world class operation to reduce the production problems to time and money using production output data.