PROPOSED IMPROVEMENT OF FAJAR DAILY NEWSPAPER PRODUCTS WITH A SIX SIGMA APPROACH

Abstract

In Indonesia, many manufacturing industry companies large and small are trying to
make products of good quality for the market. This is because only companies that
have good product quality can compete and survive. Company Fajar Makassar Grafika
is a subsidiary of Fajar Group that specifically handles newspaper printing production,
in carrying out the process of newspaper production there are still many problems with
product defects that are not by the standards of the company.
The method used in this study is the Six sigma method using DMAIC stages (define,
measure, analyze, improve and control). Six Sigma is one of the tools commonly used
in product quality control. This method has the concept of setting quality standards
until it reaches 3.4 rejects per one million possibilities.
Based on the results of the analysis with the Six Sigma method it has been known that
in the production process there are 5 types of defects, namely blurred mold defects,
dirty prints, not registers, folded and torn newspapers with sigma levels obtained at
3.92 with an average damage rate of 7760 for one million productions (DPMO). From
the analysis of fishbone diagrams can be known the causal factors of defective products
derived from machine, material and human factors. The proposed improvement is
done using Failure Mode and Effect Analysis (FMEA) analysis, so that the company
can take precautions and improvements to reduce defective products and improve
product quality.