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Corporate-wide Team Improves Cleanroom Practices
SAS’ Jim Petts and Amgad Salama led a corporate-wide team of multi-disciplinary experts to standardize cleanroom classifications and practices, then generate “one company” command media to ensure the quality and consistency of the rooms, zones and workstations across Raytheon.
Among the team’s accomplishments is a nine-minute training video now available online to all Raytheon employees. The video, which is part of a two-hour mandatory class for cleanroom certification, emphasizes the direct relationship between reducing contamination and lowering defect rates.
Also, the team created a database of cleanrooms across Raytheon, with contact information and proper classifications. “This will make it far easier for people to share lessons learned and ask questions,” says Salama. “This database will be invaluable to both corporate and site employees.”
During a Raytheon Six Sigma™ blitz, the team reviewed documents related to cleanroom controls, including government and industry specifications and policies and practices from Raytheon business units. They then streamlined the information into one condensed set of command media. This command media is now being considered by Raytheon’s Operations Council, as are other recommendations for the next phase of the cleanroom initiative.
“Many benefits have already come from our efforts, but this is just the beginning,” says Petts. “By being proactive and communicating common expectations, we’re reducing risks, saving costs and shortening cycle time. We’re also providing our business units and employees with greater flexibility so hardware can move around with the assurance that cleanroom practices are uniform.”
As Salama puts it, “Variation is the archenemy of a process. Ensuring consistency from product to product and from one cleanroom to another will make it much easier to comply with audits, ISO standards and customer requirements — and achieve Mission Assurance.”
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