Today, Engineering is the most sought after
career option and the number of engineers passing out each year; is increasing
each year. As a part of the degree curriculum, in the final year of
degree, the students have to undertake projects. Two in fact: Minor & Major
Project. What is expected from the students by their professors as project is their
theoretical knowledge and skills to be seen in the projects. Of course,
innovation is their utmost desire, but, most innovations are accidents, isn’t
it? And innovation is not the only idea which is going to fetch ‘wows’ for your
project, but, the application of the project and the result matters a lot too.
In this post, I will suggest you some projects which, in terms of their
application and result, are highly rated in the industry.
Six Sigma is a very important term in industries
today. It is a Quality Improvement technique which takes a business process to
a whole new level which the companies can only dream of. Six Sigma based
projects are highly rated by companies and you will have an upper hand in the
recruitment processes over others because of the term Six Sigma in your Resume.
Let us first start with a brief introduction to Six Sigma and then we will talk
about Six-Sigma based Projects in Engineering.
Introduction to Six Sigma
Six Sigma is a quality management methodology
which uses different theories and tools to improve the yield of exiting process
and reducing the time, money and resources put in. It is a statistical
technique to represent the deviation from the standard and measure the same. A
Six Sigma process produces only 3.4 defects per million opportunities. In
simple words, Six Sigma is a Quality improvement process to attack the reasons
behind the defects and, thus, provide a full proof solution against any
problem.
Application of Six Sigma
Six Sigma is a process which can be applied to almost any business process or even to a non-commercial process. For instance, if there is an electric generator in your locality which is having low efficiency, collect the data of the power generation and fuel consumption for a reasonable duration and you can increase the efficiency by applying Sis-Sigma methodology on it. You are a team leader and your team members are making mistakes in their projects time and again. Collect the error (mistakes) data and apply the sis-sigma operation and see the astonishing results. The effectiveness of Six-Sigma is tried and tested. Companies, today, just love to go the six-sigma way because there is always scope of improvement in any ocmmercial process and with continuous improvement, the Operating cost goes on decreasing and thus, the company can fulfill the desires of customers: ‘Low Price making no compromise with Quality’.Projects in Six-Sigma
This is the most crucial part of this post: the Project Ideas.- Six-Sigma projects, as I said before, can be done both on commercial and non-commercial activities. If you are lucky enough to do your Summer Training in a company like: Hero MotoCorp, Maruti, Honda or any manufacturing company for that matter.
- Thermal Power Plants are also a very good option as a Project can be done on their Capacity Utilization, Resource Utilization.
- And, you won’t believe me when I say that you can even choose a non-commercial process if you don’t get an opportunity in a company. You can concentrate on your Hostel Electric Generator, calculate the power generation data and the fuel consumption and go for the target of better fuel efficiency.
- Doing a project on Industrial accidents is also a very good choice and is a hot topic these days.
