'Case Study: Quality Parts Company Essay\r'

'1. Which of the changes being considered by the double-decker of Quality Parts Company are tabulator to the move school of thought of the company?\r\nLean issue is a philosophy and a way of functional involving eliminating all forms of waste (where waste is defined as anything that does not add value in the product process and supply chain). Many changes being considered by the manager are counter to lean philosophy. These are: Installing an automated ordering system to encourage control inventories and to â€Å"keep the skids fined” implies the affair of inventory as a motivator to push mathematical product; adding impertinent inspectors; setting up a network cable television service only institutionalizes the acceptance of rework. They could have implemented a strict shade control to ensure the quality of the products being produced by the company.\r\nFactory workers should become their consume inspectors that would personally be responsible for the quality o f their output. In this way, QPC can save more(prenominal) money and more clipping. Also, utilizing the labor and the railcar does not coincide with lean philosophy. The focus should be more on flexibleness and reducing the waste of overproduction. The installation of high hiking shelving indicates an acceptance of wasteful inventory. This would just be added as a non-value step in their process. Lean philosophy leaves no room for surplus or refuge stock. No safety stocks are allowed this philosophy says that, ‘If you cannot use it now, you do not need to produce it now.” at a time production is done in excess, this can be considered as waste.\r\n2. Make recommendations for the lean improvements in such areas as scheduling, layout, kanban, task groupings, and inventory. Use quantitative entropy as much as possible: read necessary assumptions.\r\nAs we can see in the process, step 1 has one of the highest operation time and second to the highest when it comes to set up time. Therefore, adding a machine here will help improve the production of the company. The bottleneck of the process is in step 4 which includes three steps in assembling the product. With this, products were obstruct to machine department before reaching the assemblage bench.\r\n'