WHAT IS ACE

Ace is an operating system and company wide strategy in our appraoch to relentlessly improve the value that we deliver to our customers and investors. It is also a containment of methods and tools for measuring status and improvements. It measures how well our products are satisfying our customers needs and where we need to focus our efforts to improve our products and processes.12 Tools of the Improvement Process

1. Process Management : A disciplined approach to achieve business process effectiveness, efficiency and agility. For this tool we use the Impact Maturity Chart.
2. Standard Work : The method by which work is simplified and structured to ensure maximum quality, consistency and repeatability over time.This can be defined as Activity level.
3. Quality Clinic Process Charter : QCPC is a simple tool used to continuously analyze a process for quality improvement opportunities and process inefficiencies or "Turnbacks"
4. Relentless Root Cause Analysis : The rapid and persistent pursuit of the fundamental breakdown or failure of the process that,when resolved,prevents a recurrence of the problem.
5. Mistake Proofing : Using wisdom and ingenuity to provide methods and devices that allow you to do your job 100% defect free 100% of the time.
6. Process Certification : This is a structured approach that allows process owners to better understand,quantify,control and manage their processes to be competitive in the global market.
7. Market Feedback Analysis : MFA is a methodology  using tools to collect  and analyze unemotional  market data to build the voice of the customer into our process and products to gain competitive advantage.
8. Passport : This is a set of reviews or checkpoints intergrated with the program deployment process designed to ensure all problems are identified before moving to the next phase.
9. 6s : This tool creates a workplace  environment  where anyone can visually understand the current situation.
10. Total Productive Maintenance : TPM is a method to achieve maximum equipment effectiveness through employee involvement.
11. Setup Reduction : This is a method to improve Overall Equipment Effectiveness by minimizing the time required for tooling change overs.
12. 3P - This is a process characterized by cross functional teams, lean principles,productivity constraints and modeling and simulation of the production process.