Bikram Jit Singh

Back Up Power Systems: Efficacy of Six Sigma in Backup Power Systems Bikram Jit Singh

Master's Thesis from the year 2012 in the subject Engineering - Industrial Engineering and Management, grade: A, , course: M. Tech., language: English, comment: Though Six Sigma was originally developed for manufacturing processes about 35 years back, but today almost every sector is using Six Sigma to improve related profits and performances. Here an initiative is taken to increase the performance of a backup power system by optimizing its various operational parameters thus cutting costs and hence decreasing overall financial losses. Thus a novel case is presented to apply the Six Sigma methodology in the backup-power service sector. , abstract: Importance of BPS can't be ignored particularly in developing countries but feeble effort was seen to improve its power generation cost. An imprecise and outdated frameworks used for bringing change in BPS sector are unable to increase its overall equipment efficiency. The much diversified methodology of Six Sigma has been implemented through a case study which further validates the methodology adopted to tackle the problem formulated, in book ahead. Results achieved during the case, highlights the economical production of backup power by optimizing concerned power-generation parameters of a Cummin's Diesel Genset through strategic application of Six Sigma's DMAIC approach. The book outlines the need for proper energy reform in backup power industry. The DMAIC approach of Six Sigma in BPS sector is too infrequent and next, motivates to reduce backup power cost and its associated expenditures, which are generally ignored.