PROPOSED IMPROVEMENT OF FAJAR DAILY NEWSPAPER PRODUCTS WITH A SIX SIGMA APPROACH

In Indonesia, many manufacturing industry companies large and small are trying to make products of good quality the market. This is because only that have product can compete survive. PT. Fajar Makassar Grafika a subsidiary Group specifically handles newspaper printing production, in carrying out process production there still problems with defects not by standards company.The method used this study Six sigma using DMAIC stages (define, measure, analyze, improve control). Sigma one tools commonly control. has concept setting until it reaches 3.4 rejects per million possibilities.Based on results analysis been known 5 types defects, namely blurred mold dirty prints, registers, folded torn newspapers levels obtained at 3.92 an average damage rate 7760 for productions (DPMO). From fishbone diagrams be causal factors defective derived from machine, material human factors. The proposed improvement done Failure Mode Effect Analysis (FMEA) analysis, so company take precautions improvements reduce