Race without a Finish Line
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What is the focus of TQM organizations?
What is the relation between lean production and TQM?
When you think of a company as a pipeline, what is the goal of Lean?
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How is throughput (flow) time influenced?
Where are obstructions in throughput particularly?
Why is it difficult to identify precise location of all obstructions?
- Sources of obstruction keep changing
- Customer order change means flow rate must be adapted (right kind an quantity of materials)
- Products are changing - so process must be adapted
- so it is continuous process
Which 2 features distinguish lean organizations?
- Process employees identify and prioritize problems and sources of waste. Reduce inventory makes obstruction become visible
Is reduction of inventory a tool or a solution? Why?
What were the 2 changes in the automotive industry?
- After WWII Toyota pioneered lean production. Economic rise in Japan. Lean was adopted elsewhere as consequence
What is The Machine That Changed the World?
What is usually associated with the beginning of the Industrial Revolution?
What was changed by the Industrial revolution? Who influence it and when?
What is the difference between the approach of Japanese and the approach of Taylor's system?
Japan:
workers in factories continued to develop broad-based skills that would allow them to rotate freely among a variety of tasks.(resulted in commitment)
What is the Ford's mass production system?
Why did Toyoda conclude that Ford's system of mass production was unworkable in Japan?
- Japan was still struggling to recover from the ravages of war
- Small auto market in Japan
- they wanted to make variety in one plant not just 1 type of car
- Strong Japanese company unions- not easy to hire/fire
- Short supply of capital - not able to invest in modern equipment and technology
What are the features of the Toyota Production System?
- Reduced setup Times: by carefully analyzing existing procedures
- Small Lot production and One-Piece Flow: reduce inventory, defect costs, Batches calculated by EOQ formula
- Employee Involvement and Empowerment: workers could do better because they are familiar with the process ,less specialist. 5 times why.
- Quality at the Source: defects discovery and ccorrections ASAP, sources of errors were eliminated
- Equipment Maintenance: preventive maintenance ( because workers detect malfunctions soon) instead of when machines breakdown
- Pull Production: Production is based on demand
- Standard Work: workers should create their own standards (better for motivation and improvement)
- Supplier partnerships: integral elements of production
How is EOQ calculated?
D= Demand
S= Setup cost
H= Holding Cost
Which computer technology for manufacturing developments have arived:
- MRP: link together rinformation about parts/components for plannign
- ERP: enterprise resource planning
- CAD: Computer-aided design: enables designeres to design a part/product and test its features with other parts and products
- DAM: Computer aided manufacturing: translated design requirements to instructions for controlling production machinery
- FMS: Flexible manufacturing system: aims to achieve high-variety output at low cost
- CIM: Computer-integrated manufacturing: links CAD/CAM
- EDI: Electronic Data Interchange: information sharing between companies
Why did America lose market shares around 1950 and Japan win it
Government decided to put emhasis on education of engineers
America: Distracted
New breed of executives: Whiz Kids: Gained reputation during war but didn't have product know-how, and made it less important.
They played up their management systems, which emphasized financial criteria, that told management what to do, regardless of market, product, or industy
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