4. 4
leak defect was defined as those gloves that had one
or more holes and thus presented a water/air leak
when subjected to quality testing
The dirty gloves defect, it was defined as the gloves
not being clean (i.e. having one or more stain
marks).
The miscellaneous category consisted of other types
of defects such as misshaped, sticky gloves, etc.
9. Results
9
230°C temperature and conveyor speed of 650
R.P.M. provided the lowest amount of leaking
gloves.
This resulted in a reduction of DPMO from
195,095 to 83,750 and a Sigma level improvement
from 2.4 to 2.9