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sudhirp@ssa-solutions.com (Super User) — Fri, 12 Jul 2013 06:18:22 GMT

Value Engineering the DMAIC way
Volume 1, Issue 1, January 2013

VE – DMAIC was presented in 2nd Asia Value Engineering Conference-2012 organized by Indian Value Engineering Society (INVEST). Here we are demonstrating the improvised methodology for VE by combining the philosophy of six sigma and VE. This method combines the numerical rigor of six sigma by creating a new system for functional worth analysis.

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Reduction in Manufacturing Cost of a Telephone using DFMA.
Volume 1, Issue 1, October 2012

Design for Manufacture and Assembly (DFMA) is one of the methodologies which emphasizes on reducing the total part count without tampering the system functionality. Its objective is to optimize the design and analyze its improvements.

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sudhirp@ssa-solutions.com (Super User) — Mon, 03 Sep 2012 06:59:41 GMT

who we are

sudhirp@ssa-solutions.com (Super User) — Mon, 03 Feb 2014 04:48:47 GMT

SSA TECHKNOWLOGIES, an off-shoot of the flagship company SSA Business Solutions, identified its purpose to transform the paradigm of New Product Introduction in this country by offering various change management solutions focusing on the designers’ community. Among the various offerings, SSA Techknowlogies empowers the Indian Industries to adopt the world class New Product Introduction Process and endeavour to develop the Designers’ competency to offer state-of-the-art new products.

SSA Group’s mission is to help the industries achieve ‘Business Excellence’.

‘Excellence in Business’ in any organization is achieved with the following

Envisioning & Strategizing Solutions An Organization with a proper mission, vision and a long term business plan is likely to succeed. (SSA Business Solutions strategizes and helps the organizations to envision and come up with a roadmap.)

New Product Development Solutions SSA Techknowlogies focuses on ‘Excellence in Design’ to get the First Time Right(FTR) new product by developing designer’s competency, improving product introduction process, reducing development lead times, improving product quality and reducing overall costs.

Operational Excellence Solutions Operational Excellence Solutions cater to Continuous Improvement through problem solving techniques like Lean, Six Sigma and many others.

(SSA-Business Solutions partners for achieving Operational Excellence).

How are we Different?

SSA Techknowlogies helps its clients solve an array of Product Design & Development issues by

Improving reliable product designs
Improving customer loyalty and design better quality products
Enhancing product development processes leading to shorter lead time
Improving production processes which leads to high throughput and low cost
Improving quality of incoming
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What we do

sudhirp@ssa-solutions.com (Super User) — Mon, 03 Feb 2014 04:57:01 GMT

What We Do

“SSA Techknowlogies offers services across industries to improvise their performance through innovative consulting in excellence in design and by handholding till the results are achieved.”

With its proprietary Integrated Technology Management System - ITMS^®, SSA Techknowlogies is the pioneer in the field of consulting. It consults organizations in New Product Introduction (NPI^Lean), and helps them in designing products that are better aligned with customer needs. SSA’s Techknowlogies aims to deliver reliable and cost effective products to the customers in a shorter lead time.

ITMS^® seamlessly incorporates proven methodologies like Design for Manufacture & Assembly (DFMA), Design for Six Sigma (DFSS), Lean and other tools and techniques of New Product Development.

ITMS^® covers the whole life cycle of the product, right from understanding the needs of the customer for a product till the disposal of the product

Our Approach

We at SSA-Techknowlogies, create the Structure , System and Culture in design and development through excellence in design with the following approach,

Training

Competency building through Knowledge and Skill development

Consulting

Institutionalising world class practices in Design and New Product Introduction

Coaching

Mentoring and hand-holding for implementing specific skills, tools and techniques for excellence in Design.

History

sudhirp@ssa-solutions.com (Super User) — Mon, 03 Feb 2014 05:01:23 GMT

History

Genesis

In the late nineties in India, the small and large scale Industries were losing the race of developing products effectively. Their products did not match with overseas products that were made with superior technology, which resulted in the closure of many well known businesses as their products were obsolete compared to their superior quality counterparts. The reason for this slowdown was mainly because our indigenous companies were unable to keep pace with the products from the developed countries which added more value while meeting the customers’ requirements effectively and efficiently. The developed countries focused on developing the state-of-art-products which competed with the outdated Indian products which were design several decades ago.

Looking at the above scenario, SSA Consulting Group was founded by Mr.N.C.Narayanan in 1999 with a missionary zeal to be a one-stop-shop knowledge resource for improving the competitiveness of any business model. The flagship company of the group, SSA Business Solutions (P) Ltd consults on management solutions under the umbrella of ISM^® Integrated Strategy Management Systems. After placing itself firmly in the Business Management area, SSA group noticed that the Indian Manufacturing Industries were lagging in their capabilities to design and develop the product that will match the state-of-the-art product from the overseas manufacturer.

This gave birth to SSA Techknowlogies to focus on the design and development capabilities of Indian industries and bring them on par with the overseas’ competitors. SSA group companies resolved to make ‘Made In India’ synonymous to ‘Quality’

vision, mission, values, ethos

sudhirp@ssa-solutions.com (Super User) — Mon, 03 Feb 2014 05:21:44 GMT

Vision, Mission, Values, Ethos

Purpose

To make a significant contribution towards improving the quality of human life through innovative new products.

Values

Customer-focused. The customer is God.
Integrity. We believe in keeping up promises.
Creativity. Dreams. Imagination.
Mentoring. Encouraging people to excel.
A passion for impossible. Our core strength.

Vision

To become the most preferred product & process technology partner enabling to Imagine, Innovate and Improve new products and supply chain management that will make ‘Made In India’ synonymous to ‘Excellence’.

Ethos

Imagine Thought leadership for excellence in design
Innovate Product and services for improving design throughput.
Improve Customers’ experience through innovative new products and New Product Introduction systems

management

sudhirp@ssa-solutions.com (Super User) — Mon, 03 Feb 2014 08:56:20 GMT

Management

Mr. NC Narayanan, Founder and CMD
SSA Techknowlogies (P) Ltd.

Professional Experience

Mr. NC Narayanan, fondly called as NC, is the founder & CMD of SSA Group of companies.

He is a Gold Medallist in B.E (Mech) from Anna University and MS Research in Finite Element Method (FEM) from IIT, Chennai.

After a professional career in design and technology for 30 years, he founded SSAT with a missionary zeal of sharing his wisdom for developing Indian industries and strengthening their New Product Introduction (NPI) systems. Right from his formative days, NC worked in the design and technology disciplines, passing several roles till he finally held the Chief Designer and Technology Head positions in reputed engineering companies.

Experience Profile

He was responsible for re-engineering the entire New Product Introduction process at Lucas-TVS by implementing the concurrent engineering approach, for which he was trained by Lucas Engineering Systems in the UK.

NC was trained in Design For Manufacture and Assembly (DFMA) by the founder of DFMA in Lucas Electricals UK and he later implemented DFMA across Lucas companies.

NC was trained in CAD/CAM in Lucas Electricals, UK and common wealth

subject matter experts

sudhirp@ssa-solutions.com (Super User) — Tue, 21 Jan 2014 10:58:09 GMT

Lakshmi Vempati
SME Automobile and ancillary

Lakshmi Vempati is an Electrical Engineer with international expertise in business development, engine launches, and plant facilities management. She has over 15 years of experience in automotive industry in the US where a majority of the career was at Ford Motor Company. She is a certified Six Sigma Black Belt from Ford. Her specialties include Ford Production System, Process Focused Leadership, Lean Manufacturing Principles, Global Manufacturing as well as Procurement Strategies, Continuous Improvement Systems as well as Global Engineering Management. She has expertise in Machining and Engine Assembly; Value Stream Mapping, Engine launches, program planning and implementation. Lakshmi is a highly rated Associate Director at SSA and has regularly conducted courses on topics ranging from Lean Six Sigma to Business Process Re-engineering. She has a B.Tech in Electrical/Electronics Engineering from NIT, Calicut and MS in Electrical Engineering from Auburn University, AL,USA.

CN Murthy
SME Flexible packaging technology

Mr. Murthy earned his B.Tech in Mechanical engineering from IIT Kharagpur and is a privileged Member of the Indian Institution of Engineers. He has nearly 40 years experience working with companies like ITC and The Paper Products Ltd. He has held Board level positions as Executive Director & COO for Huhtamaki-PPL. He also has over 15+ years experience in Plant and manufacturing Operations, in implementing quality management systems, benchmarking and setting up of world class

SDDP

sudhirp@ssa-solutions.com (Super User) — Mon, 03 Feb 2014 09:10:24 GMT

SDDP (Senior Designer's Development Program)

DFMAPROTM

sudhirp@ssa-solutions.com (Super User) — Mon, 03 Feb 2014 07:50:50 GMT

DFMAPRO Software Training

DFMA is an acronym for Design for Manufacture and Assembly. It is a tool for systematic approach to reduce part design complexity, cost and number of parts. Its main ideology revolves around optimizing assembly process operations.

The best way to take advantage of this approach is to apply the methods during the design stage itself, using DFMAPRO™.

DFMAPRO ™ provides consistent method of applying the DFMA principles anytime throughout the development process. Even at early design stages when the product is just a rough drawing, engineers can use the software to predict the entire cost, assembly time. It gives them the ability to evaluate alternate assembly systems. Having such wealth of information allows for easy material selection and assembly methods, it helps to make informed decisions at all levels, shortening the lead time.

The software also allows identifying un-necessary parts. This information allows the design team to make a more efficient design. Even the smallest change can be evaluated, allowing the subsequent costs to be understood. The results are based on real world information. This tool can also be used as a means to evaluate different vendors and their offerings as the evaluation team is empowered with the cost associated with the product in question.

All this makes the DFMAPRO™ an invaluable asset for any manufacturing company. As it empowers the designers, management and anyone concerned with the development to know the ‘should cost’ of the new product, easily and quickly.

Added benefits

Accurate cost decision maker
Design tool
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iGrafx

sudhirp@ssa-solutions.com (Super User) — Mon, 03 Feb 2014 07:56:28 GMT

iGrafx Software

Scope of SSA group of companies

SSA Group of Companies (SSA Business Solutions (P) Ltd. and SSA Techknowlogies (P) Ltd), are an authorized professional services partner and software distributor/reseller of iGrafx. iGrafx allows SSA group of companies to represent iGrafx in India and engage in sales, training, consulting and technical support activities with its end users/customers.

Services delivered

Training on iGrafx products

iGrafx Flowcharter 2013
iGrafx Process 2013
iGrafx Process for Six Sigma 2013
iGrafx Process Central
iGrafx Enterprise Modeler and many more...

To learn more on how to achieve cost reduction through Business Transformation using iGrafx, please click here

For more information please visit the website: www.igrafx.com

Consultation for

Business Enterprise Process Mapping
Data Modelling
Process Improvement
RapiDOE on Real life model and analysis
Structuring of Organizational Data
Risk Management,Risk Reports, Balanced Scorecards etc
Performance measurement Analysis
Integration of Process Modules with SAP Technologies

Support Activities

Pre sales activities

Help for installation
30 days Trial keys
Online /Onsite Demo on the product
Customized solutions based on the setup ,type of organization and the no. of units, resources etc involved

After sales activities

Upgrade of the softwares purchased
Issues related to installation,upgrade,maintenance etc...
Online/offline support for Technical bug fixing

Why iGrafx?

iGrafx software provides a comprehensive business process analysis family of products for process excellence. Whether aligning business objectives with IT systems through Enterprise Architecture, deploying Business Process Management, complying with mandatory regulations such as

MiniTAB

sudhirp@ssa-solutions.com (Super User) — Mon, 03 Feb 2014 07:59:16 GMT

Minitab Statistical Tool

Analyze your data and improve your products and services with the leading statistical software used to implement Six Sigma worldwide

What is Minitab?

Minitab is a statistical analysis software used for the Six Sigma applications which aims to collect and analyze data in any organization to improve products and processes.

Why Minitab?

Most of the data such as maintenance downtime, customer complaints VOC etc taken by quality, maintenance, finance and marketing department collected in any organization are not analyzed to take an effective management decisions. In order to understand and improve the efficiency of business processes, various statistical analysis are carried out and for this analysis Minitab is used.

For more information visit: http://www.minitab.com/en-US/theater/default.aspx?video=Minitab16Tour

Learning Outcome

Entire RDMAIC is recapped and entire DMAIC is covered in this 2 day program
The participants will taken through Hands on exercises with sample data
The participants will be able to interpret the results which are not covered in GB an BB program
Minitab tab guide, exclusively developed for this program, will be given for reference to the participants.
The program would assist them in creating a graphical analysis
This course will strengthen the skills of Six Sigma practitioners in Minitab
Not a software training program
In house programs could be conducted in case of 15 participants from a particular organization

Recommended Audience

All Six Sigma green belt and black belt certified practitioners.
People who would like to use
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SigmaXL®

sudhirp@ssa-solutions.com (Super User) — Mon, 03 Feb 2014 08:01:41 GMT

Sigma XL Simply Smart Software

SigmaXL is a leading provider of user friendly Excel add-in tools for statistical and graphical analysis. Our flagship product, SigmaXL was designed from the ground up to be cost-effective, powerful, and easy to use. It allows users to measure, analyze, improve, and control their service, transactional and manufacturing process. As an add-in to the already familiar Microsoft Excel, SigmaXL is ideal for Six Sigma training and is used by leading consultants. It is rapidly becoming the tool of choice for Six Sigma professionals. SigmaXL is a fraction of the cost of any major statistical product, yet it has all the statistical and graphical functionality most people need

What is SigmaXL ?

SigmaXL is a statistical analysis software used for the Six Sigma applications which collects and analyzes data in any organization to improve products and processes.

Why SigmaXL

Learning Outcome

Entire RDMAIC is recapped and entire DMAIC is covered in this 2 day program
The participants will taken through Hands on exercises with sample data
The participants will be able to interpret the results which are not covered in GB an
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Client list

sudhirp@ssa-solutions.com (Super User) — Tue, 10 Dec 2013 04:54:22 GMT

Tata Motors

Mahindra

Jyoti Plastics

Crompton & Greaves

Emerson

OPW Dover

Emco

Sonalika

Monsanto

Bluestar

Tafe

Maruti Suzuki

NSE- National Stock Exchange

ABN Amro

Tata Consultancy Services

HCL

Indian Navy

Owens Corning

Infosys

Bank of America

Axis Bank

NSDL

Metso

eClerx

Client Speak

sudhirp@ssa-solutions.com (Super User) — Fri, 21 Sep 2012 12:12:02 GMT

I had basic awareness of DFMA, but now I think I got adequate information which will help me to exceed/accelerate my work.

Nithin Mahale DFMA Emerson Design Centre

Good overall exposure to NPI and DFM as well as DFA. Will definitely help to improve the approach towards development of products.

Prasenjit Patil DFMA Emerson Design Centre

Very good. Every time while designing a part, these DFMA techniques will help me to understand the best possible method to make it.

Pooja Sawant - DFMA Emerson Design Centre

Very good, it gave me a lot of knowledge, henceforth I will apply this technique to each & every product I will work on & every product that comes in front of my eyes. The trainers were very good, Mr.NC Narayanan is an experienced person so he had answers for all the questions asked during the training programme.

Pradeep Mokashi DFMA Emerson Design Centre

As trainee engineer, this will improve my knowledge and understanding in product development. The overall environment created was very good and I specifically like some inspiring message boards in the hall. Mr.NC gave live examples & explained them in a very lucid manner so that as fresher

Client Videos

sudhirp@ssa-solutions.com (Super User) — Fri, 21 Sep 2012 13:57:53 GMT

Mr. Sreenivas Charlu of Onida

Mr. Pradeep Balwant Patil of Precihole Machine Tools

Mr. Azhar Ahmed Ayaz Qazi of Precihole Machine Tools

Mr. Atul Chaudhari of Thermolabs Scientific Equipments

Mr. Kaustubh Pandit Thermolabs Scientific Equipments

Mr. Mateen Faisal Ansari of Precihole Machine Tools

Mr. Jagdish Garud of Mahindra Satyam

Mr. Parmanand Sawant of Onida

TATA Motors DFMA Training

Request for Updates

sudhirp@ssa-solutions.com (Super User) — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 09:34:56 GMT

Coming Soon

Schedule a Meeting

sudhirp@ssa-solutions.com (Super User) — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 07:06:21 GMT

Mamatha Adhikari
Head Business Development

marketing@ssa-tech.com / mamatha@ssa-tech.com

Phone

+91 22 2568 5494, +91 22 2565 2448

Enrollment Form

sudhirp@ssa-solutions.com (Super User) — Thu, 23 Jan 2014 12:51:29 GMT

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New Product Introduction Lean

sudhirp@ssa-solutions.com (Super User) — Mon, 03 Feb 2014 06:02:20 GMT

Lean in New Production Introduction

Reduction in NPI lead time by less than half
First-Time-Right new products that meets and exceeds the customer expectations
Reduction in the product development costs
Optimization of resources of downstream activities
Less hassles in manufacturing the new product
Higher reliability of new products

What is NPI^Lean?

The principles of lean are applied for studying the inbound & outbound logistics of any manufacturing model to achieve the Lean objectives. A NPI process is also a value chain, which converts the customer requirements into a tangible new product, NPI value chain starts from the organization structure, goes through customer’s requirements & ends with the customer; virtually covering the entire distribution and after sales network.

NPI lean identifies the wastes and eliminates them to achieve shorter lead time and manufactures First-Time-Right (FTR) products at optimum costs, thus NPI Lean re-engineers the NPI system.

Recommended Audience

Chief Designers
Industrial Designers
Product Designers
Design engineers
Tool designers
Quality engineers
Process engineers

Learning Outcomes

The participants will be able to

Optimize the organizational structure and plant location.
Select suitable vendors and their location.
Identify the customer requirement and convert them into design elements of the product to optimize it.
Identify the waste processes during product development phase and eliminate them by implementing the Lean principles.
Optimize the component count at the design stage itself.
Optimize the assembly costs and the tolerancing of new products even before the detail designs are taken.

Duration

Public training program -2
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Design for Six Sigma (DFSS)

sudhirp@ssa-solutions.com (Super User) — Mon, 03 Feb 2014 06:32:49 GMT

Design for Six Sigma

DFSS

Why DFSS?
The organizations that want to reach the next level of efficiency by designing and engineering a first time right product and process adding Value to it need to adopt a program called Design for Six Sigma (DFSS).

What is DFSS?
Six Sigma focuses on streamlining the production and business processes to eliminate mistakes, improve morale and save money. DFSS starts even earlier, it aims to develop or redesign the product itself, so fewer wrinkles show up in the first place, thus systematically preventing downstream errors. Instead of constantly debugging products and processes that already exist – an effort that never ends, DFSS starts from scratch to design the product or process to be virtually error free. This effectively replaces the usual trial and error style with a cleaner, bump-free end result that also requires much less aftermarket tinkering.

Recommended Audience

Chief Designers

Industrial Designers

Product Designers

Design Engineers

Tool Designers

Quality Engineers

Process Engineers

Learning Outcomes
The design engineers will be able to improve their design approach that will improve the yield of new products and thereby the revenue from new products, that are error free and are made keeping customer requirements as the focal point .

Duration

Public training program 14 day detailed course,

In-house training program Customized as per requirements.

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VOC Benchmarking

sudhirp@ssa-solutions.com (Super User) — Mon, 03 Feb 2014 06:36:25 GMT

VOC Benchmarking
Voice of Customer Benchmarking

Why VOC Benchmarking?
The customer needs and requirements are the foundation of the product design. VOC Benchmarking helps to measure those factors to and analyze them among the competitors to identify the factors which have to be excelled.

What is VOC Benchmarking?
It is the process to analyzes the factors of a product which impact the customers’ buying decisions and benchmarks them against the competitors and thereby enhancing its performance.

Recommended Audience

Chief Designers

Industrial Designers

Product Designers

Design engineers

Tool designers

Quality engineers

Process engineers

Learning Outcomes
The participants will be able to

Achieve breakthrough results by designing world class product which keeps the requirements of customers in mind.

Improve the performance of the product and identify the lead competitors and their offerings

Improve customer satisfaction and become best in business.

Duration

Public training program 2 day detailed course

In-house training program Customized as per requirements.

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Quality Function Deployment

sudhirp@ssa-solutions.com (Super User) — Mon, 03 Feb 2014 06:43:49 GMT

Quality Function Deployment

Why QFD?
Organizations must have a system to capture the voice of the customer and build their products and processes with reduced developmental lead time and also meet the customer specifications which would lead to customer Satisfaction. QFD eliminates the play of any subjective or judgemental factors and quantifies all the parameters against measurable outputs.

What is the use QFD?
It is a method to transform customer demands (stated & latent needs) into design so as to deploy the functions and methods for achieving the design quality into the systems and components, and finally into Product Development process.

The cross functional teams participate in the process that consists of matrices that analyze data sets according to the objective of the QFD process.

Recommended Audience

Chief Designers

Industrial Designers

Product Designers

Design engineers

Tool designers

Quality engineers

Process engineers

Learning Outcomes
The participants will be able to

Create awareness about QFD in his/her organization

Train and develop the Engineers Executives to improve the product service using the Voice of the customers as valid inputs

Provide hands-on experience on the methodology and empowering them to translate higher level “What” to lower level "How"

Duration

Public training program 4 day detailed course

In-house training program Customized as per requirements.

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Theory of inventive problem solving

sudhirp@ssa-solutions.com (Super User) — Mon, 03 Feb 2014 06:54:39 GMT

TRIZ

WHY TRIZ
How does any company survive and possibly thrive in this pressure-cooker world economy? One frequent answer is to innovate. It's easier said than done because pressures of costs, competition, and regulations loom large in any product or process design.

TRIZ can be thought of as a way of accessing existing excellence in inventive problem solving.

What is TRIZ
TRIZ, in English, is a Russian abbreviation representing "Theory of Inventive Problem Solving", and is pronounced just like "trees”. Overall TRIZ has extracted principles of invention from analysis of a huge body of patent bases, has revealed laws of evolution of technical systems, and has established general procedures for problem solving, especially for solving contradictions. Finding the physical contradictions that are the hidden root of the technical problem is the key to resolving the contradiction

Target Audience
This program is recommended for Individuals from

Technical, Service, Business industries.

Companies who are willing to adopt TRIZ technique such as

FMCG,

Aeronautical,

Computer Hardware

ERP

Consumer Electronics

Cell Phones

PHARMA

Training Duration

Public training program 2 day detailed course

In-house training program Customized as per requirements.

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Design for Manufacture and Assembly

sudhirp@ssa-solutions.com (Super User) — Mon, 03 Feb 2014 07:05:03 GMT

Design for Manufacture and Assembly

Why DFMA?
DFMA is a systematic methodology that reduces the manufacturing cost through reduction in the overall parts of the product and it involves redesigning the product parts, so the product will be easy to handle and assemble

What is DFMA?
DFMA is a technique that integrates Design and Manufacturing aspect of the product at the drawing board stage itself. It uses Functional analysis and classifies the essential components and the non-essential components which can be eliminated or combined with other component within the product assembly. It selects and plans proper joining methods for assembly and analyzes each component with respect to feeding, gripping, insertion & fixing operations to ease the manufacturing and assembling of the product.

Recommended Audience

Chief Designers

Industrial Designers

Product Designers

Design engineers

Tool designers

Quality engineers

Process engineers

Learning Outcomes

Time-to-market awareness will be created among the Designers & Engineers.

The participant will be able to design the product with least number of parts.

Participants will be provided an insight in to the manufacturing problems.

The participant will be able to design a product with optimum material and manufacturing operations.

Designers will develop knowledge on cost consciousness & an awareness of Designers’ accountability in product design lifecycle will be created.

Duration

Public training program 2 day detailed course

In-house training program Customized as per requirements.

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Design Failure Mode Effect Analysis

sudhirp@ssa-solutions.com (Super User) — Mon, 03 Feb 2014 07:16:55 GMT

Design Failure Mode Effect Analysis

Why DFMEA?

Design-FMEA is to uncover potential failures associated with the product that could cause product malfunctions, shortened product life and safety hazards while using the product.

What is DFMEA ?

Design FMEA is an analytical technique which identifies the failures in the design of the product, addresses its causes and minimizes its effects, by Identifying the severity, occurrence and detecting the failures with measuring the RPN, thus designing an optimum product.

Recommended Audience

Chief Designers

Industrial Designers

Product Designers

Design Engineers

Tool Designers

Quality Engineers

Process Engineers

Learning Outcomes

The participant will be able to

Prepare a directory of possible/ potential failure modes.

Prioritise the failure modes with respect to the potential risk(s) encountered (inclusive of severity of effect, possibility of occurrence & ability of current system to detect).

Prepare an action plan to counter the cause of high priority (high risk) failure modes to prevent their occurrence.

Duration

Public training program 2 day detailed course

In-house training program Customized as per requirements.

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Process Failure Mode Effect Analysis

sudhirp@ssa-solutions.com (Super User) — Mon, 03 Feb 2014 07:21:20 GMT

Process Failure Mode Effect Analysis

Why PFMEA?
PFMEA is a powerful prevention tool, as it does not wait for defects to occur, but rather anticipates them and implements countermeasures ahead of time. It is a structured approach that assigns quality risk levels to each step in a process (manufacturing or transactional) by Identifying the severity, occurrence and detecting the failures thus measuring the RPN.

What is PFMEA?
Process (manufacturing or transactional) FMEA is an analytical technique which identifies the failures in the process of the manufacturing of the product and addresses its causes and minimizes its effects, thus designing an optimum product.

Recommended Audience

Chief Designers

Industrial Designers

Product Designers

Design engineers

Tool designers

Quality engineers

Process engineers

Learning Outcomes
The participants will be able to predict different failures identified during the assembly of product by which defect free products can be manufactured.

Duration

Public training program 2 day detailed course

In-house training program Customized as per requirements.

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Design of Experiments

sudhirp@ssa-solutions.com (Super User) — Mon, 03 Feb 2014 07:23:54 GMT

Design of Experiments

Why DOE? (Course Objective)

Changing one factor at a time approach for experimentation carries the risk that the experimenter may find one input variable to have a significant effect on the response while failing to discover that changing another variable may alter the effect of the first. Design of experiments is thus a discipline that has very broad application across all the natural and social sciences. Use of design of experiments instead of the one-factor-at-a-time method is efficient at evaluating the effects and possible interactions of several factors (independent variables).

Design of Experiments (DoE) allows judgment on the significance to the output of input variables acting alone, as well input variables acting in combination with one another. It enables the complex situation to be understood, thus gaining an in-depth knowledge of the process. This in turn can direct the engineering team to select the right control variables and allowable ranges for the setting and adjustment of those variables. Using DoE techniques it is possible to fully optimize the process and to highlight areas where material or equipment improvements could offer the most benefit.

Using DoE techniques it is also possible to fully optimise the process and to highlight areas where material or equipment improvements could offer the most benefit.

What is DOE?
DOE or Experimental Design is defined as the design of any information-gathering exercises where variation is present, whether under the full control of the experimenter or not. It refers to
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Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing

sudhirp@ssa-solutions.com (Super User) — Mon, 03 Feb 2014 07:26:58 GMT

Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing

Why GD&T?
When designers apply geometric tolerancing, they must consider the fit and function of every part. GD&T, in effect, acts as a checklist for the designers to consider the dimensions of all the features. Properly applied geometric tolerance ensures that every part will assemble easily every time. Geometric tolerancing helps the designer to specify the maximum available tolerance and design the most cost-efficient parts.

What is GD&T?
Geometric dimensioning and tolerancing is an international language used on drawings to accurately describe each part. Geometric tolerancing is an exact language that enables designers to “say what they think” on a drawing, thus creating the best product designs. Providing uniformity in drawing specifications and interpretation, GD&T reduces controversy, guesswork, and assumptions throughout the manufacturing and inspection process.

Recommended Audience

Chief Designers

Industrial Designers

Product Designers

Design engineers

Tool designers

Quality engineers

Process engineers

Learning Outcomes
The participant will be able to

Know the fundamentals of GD&T symbols.

Understand the use of GD&T symbols to convey fit form and functional requirements.

Demonstrate understanding on the use of GD&T in engineering drawings.

Understand methods used to check for part compliance to GD&T symbols

Duration

Public training program 2 day detailed course

In-house training program Customized as per requirements.

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Value Engineering/Value Analysis DMAIC

sudhirp@ssa-solutions.com (Super User) — Mon, 03 Feb 2014 07:29:09 GMT

Value Engineering DMAIC

Why Value Engineering?
Value Engineering Analysis is an opportunity which focuses more on improving the functionality as per the customer’s requirements in a product/service and less on unwanted functionality, thus reducing the cost and adding value to the product.

What is Value Engineering ?
Value Engineering (VE) or Value Analysis is a systematic investigation analysis of a product or service to establish the function and worth of each component with an aim to optimize the worth to cost ratio.

Recommended Audience

Chief Designers

Industrial Designers

Product Designers

Design engineers

Tool designers

Quality engineers

Process engineers

Learning Outcomes
The participant will be able to

Identify the customer requirements

Convert the customer requirements to the functionality of the product

Prioritize the functionality important for the customer and will improve the worth of the product by eliminating the unwanted functions thus reducing the overall cost.

Duration

Public training program 4 day detailed course

In-house training program Customized as per requirements.

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Tolerance Design

sudhirp@ssa-solutions.com (Super User) — Mon, 03 Feb 2014 07:30:47 GMT

Tolerance Design

Why?
Design optimum control factor levels to assure system output becomes insensitive to variation without tightening tolerances.

What is?
Tolerance Design is the science of

Predicting the effects of component tolerances and environmental change on a system

Optimizing the design of that system for quality, cost and time to market.

Recommended Audience

Chief Designers

Industrial Designers

Product Designers

Design engineers

Tool designers

Quality engineers

Process engineers

Learning Outcomes

Understand worst case scenario

Use statistical tolerancing to reduce tolerance stack up

Decide statcistical tolerancing or use worst case scenario

Duration

Public training program - 2 day detailed course

In-house training program - Customized as per requirements.

Reliability Engineering DMADV

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Reliability Engineering DMADV

Why Reliability Engineering DMADV?
Cost of failures caused by system downtime, spares, repairing equipment and warranty add cost to overall production which interns effects the profits. Reliability Engineering focuses on these aspects and designs the product to meet the performance specifications.

What is Reliability Engineering DMADV?
Reliability is a field of engineering that studies the required functions to which the product performs during the life cycle under stated conditions for the specified period of time.

Recommended Audience

Chief Designers

Industrial Designers

Product Designers

Design engineers

Tool designers

Quality engineers

Process engineers

Learning Outcomes
The participant will be able to

Design the product which would perform its intended function without the effect of failures.

Design the product which cuts the cost on failures and warranty.

Conduct different safety techniques into the product design

Duration

Public training program 2 day detailed course

In-house training program Customized as per requirements.

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The information contained in this website is for general information purposes only. The information is provided by SSA Techknowlogies and while we endeavor to keep the information up to date and correct, we make no representations or warranties of any kind, express or implied, about the completeness, accuracy, reliability, suitability or availability with respect to the website or the information, products, services, or related graphics contained on the website for any purpose. Any reliance you place on such information is therefore strictly at your own risk.

In no event will we be liable for any loss or damage including without limitation, indirect or consequential loss or
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VALUE ENGINEERING the DMAIC way

2nd Asian Value Engineering Conference – 2012 INDIAN VALUE ENGINEERING SOCIETY (INVEST)

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Reliability

Improve performance through reduced warranty cost, and reduced field failures.

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Value Engineering

Enhance Value through effective product cost reduction

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NPI-Lean

Innovation Excellence through reduced lead time to market by delivering First time Right Product

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Supply Chain Management

Efficient supply chain through Lean methodology

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Product Cost Reduction

Designing the products having a structured approach to reduce the number of part count and ease of manufacturing and assembly

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Variation Management

SSA's unique approach to reduce variation across the entire product lifecycle

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SSA Techknowlogies conducted a 3 day hand-holding session on DFMEA for a major Cycle Manufacturer

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SSA Techknowlogies conducted a workshop on Failure Mode Effect Analysis

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Come join us for a Workshop on Failure Mode Effect Analysis..!!!

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New Paradigm of design excellence enlightened by SSA's Design Documentation workshop

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Value Analyses Value Engineering

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Value Analyses Value Engineering

It shows how to define customer requirements before improving product design to ensure a balance of cost competitiveness. A case study is used to examine the key stages of information gathering, analysis, generating & sorting new ideas, selection & implementation.

Value engineering (VE) is a systematic method to improve the "value" of goods or products and services by using an examination of function. Value, as defined, is the ratio of function to cost. Value can therefore be increased by either improving the function or reducing the cost. It is a primary tenet of value engineering that basic functions be preserved and not be reduced as a consequence of pursuing value improvements.

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Vendor Quality Assurance

sudhirp@ssa-solutions.com (Super User) — Mon, 03 Feb 2014 06:12:42 GMT

Vendor Quality Management

In the modern manufacturing industries the dependancy on vendors for component and sub-assemblies are of paramount imporatnce to keep up delivery, cost and quality of supplies. Vast majority of the componets pose quality problem in the manufacturing or from customer returns which adds up to the cost of poor quality. The parent organizations may not have time and resources to fix certain chronic quality problems at vendor premises due to want of resources or time. This ends up in seggregation, 100% inspection and rework during manufacture. Solving these problems needs a systematic QC process development at vendor premise applying sound engineering practices.

Developing the vendor as “Green Channel” vendor is the approach many automobile industries have undertaken. These initiatives require a systematic “Vendor Development Program” by hand-holding the vendors to adapt best practices in QA.

Objective:

SSA Techknowlogies will undertake the responsibility of analysing and offering solutions for your Supplier Quality problems to ensure Zero Defect in bought out Components.

Zero defect supplies from vendors i.e ‘Quality At Source’

Nil rework of incoming parts

Zero warranty problems due to incoming parts

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Geometric Design & Tolerancing

sudhirp@ssa-solutions.com (Super User) — Mon, 03 Feb 2014 09:03:35 GMT

Geometric Design & Tolerancing

What is GD&T?

Geometric dimensioning and tolerancing is an international language used on drawings to accurately describe each part. Geometric tolerancing is an exact language that enables designers to “say what they think” on a drawing, thus creating the best product designs. Providing uniformity in drawing specifications and interpretation, GD&T reduces controversy, guesswork, and assumptions downstream throughout the manufacturing and inspection process.

Why GD&T?
When designers apply geometric tolerancing, they must consider the fit and function of every part. GD&T, in effect, acts as a checklist for the designers to consider the dimensions of all the features. Properly applied, geometric tolerance ensures that every part will assemble easily every time. Geometric tolerancing helps the designer to specify the maximum available tolerance and design the most cost-efficient parts.

RECOMMENDED AUDIENCE

Chief Designers

Industrial Designers

Product Designers

Design engineers

Tool designers

Quality engineers

Process engineers

LEARNING OUTCOMES
The participant will be able to

Know the fundamentals of GD&T symbols.

Understand the use of GD&T symbols to convey fit form and functional requirements.

Demonstrate understanding on the use of GD&T in engineering drawings.

Understand methods used to check for part compliance to GD&T symbols

COURSE DESCRIPTION

This course uses the strategy of giving the participants a thorough knowledge of Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing by detailing critical information on the basics of GD&T, then providing lectures, realistic examples, discussions and applications problems on the more difficult
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Engineering Documentation Consultancy

sudhirp@ssa-solutions.com (Super User) — Mon, 03 Feb 2014 06:15:28 GMT

Engineering Documentation Consultancy

Objective:

In the modern era, poorly written Design Documentation will prove costlier as it affects the valuable ‘Time To Market’. In the New product Development Process till the time to market, Design Documentation plays a very important role. Unclear instructions cause errors where the Organisation would lose time and money as the downstream actions of “cutting the metal” will cost more if it has to be redone or modified.

In the modern age attrition of designers is unavoidable and hence the Knowledge Management in design is of greatest importance to capture the knowledge. Most of the design know how is in tacit and intrisic form with the design engineers and when they leave they are lost. This is a great loss for the company to develop the know how all over again. Converting the tacit knowledge from deigners to company peoperty needs a Knowledge Management System (KMS) which documents all know how in the form of “Design Manual”. SSA Tech has specialised on capturing knowledge and documenting them.

Offering from SSA Techknowlogies

Realizing the need, SSA Group of companies lauched SSA Techknowlogies (P) Ltd a new diversification program to offer “Engineering Product Design Documentation” of the following nature:

Engineering
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