Kerosene draw at Petronas Terengganu Refinery

Six Sigma is a quality improvement methodology that is widely used by both service and manufacturing organisations. It was pioneered by Motorola but gained wide-reaching recognition through extensive adoption of the methodology by General Electric. Six Sigma focuses on the DMAIC principles of defin...

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Main Authors:	Abd. Manaf, Noor Hazilah, Hamdan, Mohd Hisham, Fadhil, Shahril Goh
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Published:	International Islamic University Malaysia 2011
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spelling	iium-236522017-08-01T08:13:45Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/23652/ Kerosene draw at Petronas Terengganu Refinery Abd. Manaf, Noor Hazilah Hamdan, Mohd Hisham Fadhil, Shahril Goh H Social Sciences (General) Six Sigma is a quality improvement methodology that is widely used by both service and manufacturing organisations. It was pioneered by Motorola but gained wide-reaching recognition through extensive adoption of the methodology by General Electric. Six Sigma focuses on the DMAIC principles of define, measure,analyse, improve, and control with team-based decision-making and problem-solving approach as the mainstay of its implementation. Kerosene draw at Petronas Terengganu Refinery was improved from 69.7 m3 /hr before implementation of Six Sigma to 73.03 m3 /hr after its successful implementation, which represented a breakthrough improvement from -1.47 to 12.32 sigma level. Headed by a Master Black Belt, the Six Sigma project team first began by mapping the process of kerosene draw in the define stage, followed by rigorous statistical analysis in analysing the critical to quality characteristics (CTQs)of the process, before arriving at an optimum process without compromising the quality of the kerosene. During the first six months of implementation, the project made a cost-savings of RM 5.5 million without any capital expenditure. International Islamic University Malaysia 2011-12 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/23652/1/Case_1_KeroseneDraw%28edSP%29RV%28rev%29.pdf Abd. Manaf, Noor Hazilah and Hamdan, Mohd Hisham and Fadhil, Shahril Goh (2011) Kerosene draw at Petronas Terengganu Refinery. IIUM Journal of Case Studies In Management, 2 (2). pp. 1-13. ISSN 2180-2327 http://www.iiumgsm.com/journal/
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description	Six Sigma is a quality improvement methodology that is widely used by both service and manufacturing organisations. It was pioneered by Motorola but gained wide-reaching recognition through extensive adoption of the methodology by General Electric. Six Sigma focuses on the DMAIC principles of define, measure,analyse, improve, and control with team-based decision-making and problem-solving approach as the mainstay of its implementation. Kerosene draw at Petronas Terengganu Refinery was improved from 69.7 m3 /hr before implementation of Six Sigma to 73.03 m3 /hr after its successful implementation, which represented a breakthrough improvement from -1.47 to 12.32 sigma level. Headed by a Master Black Belt, the Six Sigma project team first began by mapping the process of kerosene draw in the define stage, followed by rigorous statistical analysis in analysing the critical to quality characteristics (CTQs)of the process, before arriving at an optimum process without compromising the quality of the kerosene. During the first six months of implementation, the project made a cost-savings of RM 5.5 million without any capital expenditure.
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author	Abd. Manaf, Noor Hazilah Hamdan, Mohd Hisham Fadhil, Shahril Goh
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title	Kerosene draw at Petronas Terengganu Refinery
title_short	Kerosene draw at Petronas Terengganu Refinery
title_full	Kerosene draw at Petronas Terengganu Refinery
title_fullStr	Kerosene draw at Petronas Terengganu Refinery
title_full_unstemmed	Kerosene draw at Petronas Terengganu Refinery
title_sort	kerosene draw at petronas terengganu refinery
publisher	International Islamic University Malaysia
publishDate	2011
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Kerosene draw at Petronas Terengganu Refinery

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