Contributing to Quality Improvement at Rocky Flats Plant

摘要

In the last three years the Statistical Applications group at Rocky Flats Plant (RFP) in Golden, Colorado has made significant progress towards implementing a sound quality improvement plan. The statistics group has used a combination of education, training and hands on experience to promote new thinking at the plant. The ideas have progressed over several years and go hand in hand with the new attitudes on quality now sweeping the country. In the context of immediate concerns from the manufacturing and development areas at the plant Statistical Applications at RFP developed a specific process development strategy that included basic concepts of quality improvement. This paper outlines the seemingly long road to implementation and change, documents certain specific successes and describes the plan now in progress by the statistics group for adding to the quality picture at Rocky Flats and the statisticians' role in that picture. (ERA citation 13:015678)