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In my final-year capstone, we were seeing a lot of rework in a small assembly process for a student-run manufacturing lab. I started by building a detailed defect checklist and having operators log every issue for two weeks. Using that data, I ran a Pareto analysis in Excel and found that 72% of defects came from just two causes: incorrect torque and missing labels. From there, I created a simple control chart to track daily defect rates and torque measurements. We adjusted the work instructions, added a visual torque reference, and introduced a second-check step using the checklist. Within a month, defect rates dropped from about 14% to under 4%, and rework time fell by roughly 35%. The charts made it very easy to show the team how the process was stabilizing, and we kept the control chart on a whiteboard so operators could see the trend in real time.
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