List of improvement points: PPM le

List of improvement points: PPM level is 1,9 for a target at 8. The claim target is 1,8 per months for a performance of 1,92. The improvement planpresented by SUMITOMO includes LPA, Daily quality reports, additional training for newemployee, Group improvement team implementation. Hitachi request is to receive atranslation of this document in English. The specific table to manage the FIFO in the warehouse is a good practice well implementedin the main raw material warehouse. But this table is not applied in the raw materialwarehouse. The size of the production batch is not defined for the cam ring (SP024 raw material). Asexample for SP026 product the batch size is around 1500 parts. Product SPO761 : Parts from 08/05 were not oiled (rust protection) as specified in theprocedure. Some explanations were given by Sumitomo team in order to explain that in somecases it can be avoided. At minimum actions, those cases are to be standardized & theoperators trained.