Lean And Six Sigma Management Application In China Pharmaceutical Industry

Competition between pharmaceutical companies is more and fiercer due to trade barrier fade away after China became member of WTO. Chinese pharmaceutical industries have to face international competition directly. Company without cost advantage and industry benefit will not survive in future. Pharmaceutical company must use own Operational Excellence operation approach to survive and develop. Operational Excellence manufacturing and six sigma approach will help company to improve their competition to become"Global Best Practice"This article will cover main contents listed below:1.Provide necessity of six sigma management through Chinese pharmaceutical industry current status and international background and challenge.2.Use six sigma approaches, provide solution and supporting tool for this article, establish theoretical fundamental for future.3.Apply six sigma approaches; emphasize how to eliminate seven wastes during manufacturing. This article also emphasizes six sigma analysis tools on equipment management, including equipment validation and equipment Total Preventative Maintenance. Introduce equipment validation approach and Total Preventative Maintenance mode to ensure equipment operation and product quality.4 . Provide future direction following pharmaceutical characterize and misunderstanding of six sigma management execution.Overall, Chinese pharmaceutical company shall start from own feature and industrial characteristic, set up comprehensive six sigma management execution plan after full analysis for own feature and characteristic, provide solution and analysis tools for waste elimination, cost down and production efficiency improvement.