Business

Six Sigma Project Assignment

Define:

1. Identify and define a particular paper airplane design.

2. The key metric is flight time (how long the plane flies before it hits the floor). Fly the plane ten times and measure how long it takes for each of the ten flights. Use a stop watch and collect data in terms of seconds. Do not round the data to even seconds.

3. Using the collected data, establish the current process capability. For example, what is the average flight time? What is the standard deviation? You can do this in Minitab with Stat>Basic Stats>Descriptive Statistics.

4. Assuming a fictional fare that you can charge per flight second, calculate your current revenues projection assuming 500 flights per year. Use some creativity. Compare this to a target flight time (longer than you demonstrated in your capability study). Identify how much revenue you are currently missing because you are not currently achieving the target flight time. Do not try to change your design at this time.

Measure

1. Identify design or other such factors that might be preventing longer flight times. You might use such tools as a cause-and-effect diagram. Choose a couple factors that you might want to experiment with in order to increase flight times. Don’t experiment just yet.

2. Evaluate your current ability to measure flight time. You might do this by using multiple people measure the same flights and compare results. How well do multiple people reproduce the same measurement? Who is most correct?

Feel free to collaborate in the study hall for this assignment, but you must collect your own data and run your own Minitab analysis. Feel free to discuss factors that impact flight time. Feel free to discuss how to best evaluate measurement ability.

Part two of this assignment will come next week.