Title: Identification of components and parameters contributing to noise in transmission through the use of Shainin techniques

Authors: Ramnendra Mandloi; R.C. Gupta; Neeraj Tiwari

Addresses: Shri G.S. Institute of Technology and Science, 23, Sir M. Visvesvaraya Marg, Vallabh Nagar, Indore, M.P. – 452003, India ' Shri G.S. Institute of Technology and Science, 23, Sir M. Visvesvaraya Marg, Vallabh Nagar, Indore, M.P. – 452003, India ' Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA), Asia Pacific Region (APAC), Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China

Abstract: Growing expectation from global market poses challenges to the manufacturing industries to provide the best quality products at a competitive price. Cost of poor quality has gone up significantly with the traditional approach of controlling the quality. Traditional approaches are not very effective in solving chronic quality issues. In order to meet up the global expectation, organisation needs to explore effective and fast approaches which utilise various advanced techniques to solve chronic quality issues. This paper demonstrates the systematic use of Shainin techniques to solve chronic quality problem of noise from automotive transmission. Transmission is a complex system having many subassemblies, components and each component in turn has multiple parameters contributing to noise makes transmission noise an extremely complex multi-factorial problem. Shainin techniques known as component search and paired comparison have been used sequentially to identify components and subsequently the parameters of components contributing to the noise in the transmission.

Keywords: Shainin; Shainin techniques; component search; transmission noise; parameter search; paired comparison.

DOI: 10.1504/IJSSCA.2019.098724

International Journal of Six Sigma and Competitive Advantage, 2019 Vol.11 No.1, pp.42 - 57

Accepted: 23 Oct 2018
Published online: 01 Apr 2019 *

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