Benchmarking Chart

Purpose
The Benchmarking Chart provides both a graphical and a quantitative way to compare products and processes against each other on the common baseline of the Sigma scale of measure.

Anatomy

The Benchmarking Chart

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Process Capability
# of Parts (Steps) 1 7 10 20 40 60 80 100 150 200 300 400 500 600 700 800 900 1000 1200 3000 17000 38000 steps) 70000 150000

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Complexity
(part count or process

93.32% 99.379% 99.9767% 99.99966% Data 61.63 Clocks 95.733 99.839 99.9976 Data Clocks 50.08 93.96 99.768 99.9966 25.08 88.29 99.536 99.9932 Sales 99.074 Errors 6.29 77.94 Sales Errors 99.9864 1.58 68.81 98.614 99.9796 Pager Pager 0.40 60.75 98.156 99.9728 0.10 53.64 97.70 99.966 -39.38 96.61 99.949 -28.77 95.45 99.932 -15.43 93.26 99.898 -8.28 91.11 99.864 -4.44 89.02 99.830 Television Television -2.38 86.97 99.796 -1.28 84.97 99.762 Disc Memory Disc Memory Phone -0.69 83.02 99.729 Phone -0.37 81.11 99.695 -0.20 79.24 99.661 -0.06 75.88 99.593 --50.15 98.985 Portable Portable Phone -0.02 94.384 Phone ----87.880 ---78.820 ---60.000

Rolled Yield

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Terminology
A. Process Complexity - The number of steps, or manufactured parts, in the product or process. B. Process Capability - The Sigma, or Z scale of measure. C. Rolled Throughput Yield - The running mathematical product of all the individual process step (throughput) yields in a process. D. Benchmarking Point - The point plotted on the Benchmarking table, intersecting the achieved level of process/product complexity, Sigma, and Rolled Throughput Yield.

Major Considerations Application Cookbook

1. The Benchmarking Chart is easily constructed once the necessary raw input data has been collected. The first step in the construction of the chart is to prepare the underlying table. The Complexity/Sigma/Rolled Yield table is laid out as per the following formulae: STEPS SIGMA VALUES 3 4 5 6

1 Rolled Yield = (NORMSDIST(Sigma-1.5))^(# of Steps) 7 . . . . 10 . . . . 20 . . . . etc. . . . . 2. Once the underlying table has been generated, then the last step is to plot the individual benchmark values over the tabulated Rolled Yield values, corresponding to the attained Sigma/Complexity/Rolled Yield value of the benchmarked points. 3. Interpretation - The benchmark diagram on the preceding page, for example, shows points plotted for a variety of electronics products. We can see that most of the items are around 4 Sigma, with "Disc Memory" approximately 5 Sigma. Note also the relative complexity of the products, with "Data Clocks" being comparatively simple with only about 10 steps, while "Portable Phones" are very complex items, requiring approximately 17,000 production steps. It is also apparent that the two items labeled "Phone" and Disc Memory", are approximately equal in complexity, yet the "Phone" is only 4 Sigma, while the "Disc Memory" is produced at a much better 5 Sigma level.