Success Stories about SPC

What Companies Have Gained:

Campbell's Soup
20% reduction in quality costs; 70% reduction in inventory.

Florida Power & Light
$4,300,000 savings through Process Improvement; attained the Deming Award.

Ford - Rawsonville Plant
85% reduction in scrap and rework for wiper motors, and a total savings of $118,000 annually.

Globe Metallurgical
client complaints dropped 91%; greater than 50% increase in market share in 1988; attained the Malcolm Baldrige Award.

ITT
80% reduction in scrap on power seat tracks and 100% inspection eliminated.

Mattatuck Manufacturing
80% reduction in client complaints; 99% reduction in client rejections; 7% reduction of in-house scrap; 52% reduction in defects found at final inspection.

Motorola
Attained six-sigma capability (3.4 defects per million); captured pager market; attained Malcolm Baldrige Award.

Westinghouse
Yield rose from 46% to 87%; attained the Malcolm Baldrige Award.