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Make-to-order
Streamlined flow
Small lot sizes
Families of parts
Doing it right the first time
Cellular manufacturing
Total productive maintenance
Quick changeover
Zero Defects
Just-in-time
Variability reduction
High employee involvement
Cross functional teams
Multi-skilled employees
Visual signaling
Statistical process control
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of Production flexibility.
Resolve problems
Change the shop responsibility.
that
cause
poor floor layout to reduce
Transfer to the
quality rather than the movement of
production
shopfloor
merely detect them.
materials.
personnel
Reduce the reject
Reduce production responsibility for :
rate gradually and setup times so that Product quality.
systematically
to products can be made
Production target
zero.
in very small batches.
attainment.
(Ideally
a
lot
size
of
Production
Place the quality
Scheduling. &
control responsibility one.)
Preventive
on the shop floor
Synchronize
the
maintenance.
with the production manufacturing
Education
and cross
operators.
process
so
that
and training.
Provide
the subassemblies
are
Provide to the shop
operators tools and components
available just when floor
personnel
equipment necessary
they
are
needed
and
ongoing
training
in:
to inspect their own
not
before
(or
after).
Just-in-time
work.
Create
mutually manufacturing.
Provide education
Quality control &
and cross training to beneficial
Customer service.
relationships
with
the operators.
Train the operators
suppliers.
to do a wide range
Give them the
of jobs to have
authority to stop the
more flexibility.
production line if
Problem
solving and
they detect quality
quality
circles.
problems.
The purpose of a
Create
quality
quality
circle
circles for devising
approach
is
to
have
long term solutions
every
employee
to quality problems.
involved in solving
production
(and
other)
problems.
Each one contributes
his
skill
or
experience.
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Production
flexibility is achieved
when:
A company can
offer short lead
times.
The product mix
within the plant can
be changed
significantly from
day to day.
The people within
the plant are crosstrained to
manufacture a
wider range of
products.
Design flexibility.
Design flexibility is
related
to
the
company's ability to
introduce:
New products &
Modifications to the
current products.
Supporting
pillars of WCM
Key elements of
manufacturing
strategy
New
Performance User oriented New
Measures
Standardization
Visual
Communication
Benchmarking
Hoshin Kanri
A new approach to TQC
quality.
7 QC tools
SPC
7New QC tools.
PSQM
DOE
Activity
Costing/Mgt.
DFM
Just In Time Just in Time
manufacturing
techniques.
Kaizen
T. P. M.
Based Target
costing/
/Kaizen costing
Cost
Value Engineering
Kanban
Delivery
Reliability
SMED
Poka_Yoke
Quality
Lead-time
VRP
Flexibility
CEDAC
Employee
Relationships
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