and lean systems or two very important terms used in the business and production world. Quality management is broken down into five concepts, dimensions of quality, cost of quality, six sigma, ISO, and quality tools. Lean systems is broken down into the following concepts, JIT, lean production, kanban, kaizen, and poka-yoke. The following write up will focus on two of these concepts, one from each term. From quality management I will discuss the dimensions of quality, and for lean systems, I will
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or more restaurant industry has out-performed the national GNP by more than 40%. 17% of the total employment and 29% of the total production is due to food industry. Retails sales are expanding 10% per year. Lean was first started by Toyota in their Toyota production system more than 38 years ago. Lean manufacturing aims to eliminate waste in all areas of production, which include
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much fewer defects, compared with traditional business systems. Companies are able to respond to changing customer desires with high variety, high quality, low cost, and with very fast throughput times. Also, information management becomes much simpler and more accurate. Definition of Lean Thinking Lean thinking started originally and developed in Toyota’s post Second World War manufacturing operations - known as the Toyota Production System – under the guidance of its chief engineer, Taiichi Ohno
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components (Krajewski, Ritzman, Malhotra, 2013). Autoliv has over 80 plants in more than 32 countries, all of which run on a lean manufacturing system, which is referred to as “Autoliv Production System (APS) (Krajewski, Ritzman, Malhotra, 2013). Toyota pioneered the principles that the APS is based on (Krajewski, Ritzman, Malhotra, 2013). Another A lean system allows businesses to improve operations, by getting rid of the “unwanted waste”, such as overproduction, transportation, waiting, motion, inventory
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Introduction Traditionally, managers in manufacturing companies have sought to maximize production so as to spread the costs of investments in equipment and other assets over as many units as possible. In addition, managers have traditionally felt that an important part of their job is to keep everyone busy on the theory that idleness waste money. These traditional views often aided and abetted by traditional management practices. Just-in-time (JIT) is an inventory strategy that strives to
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Operations Special Interest Group IIM Calcutta QUESTIONS 5th September 2012 1. The time required for binding of four books A, B, C and D is 7, 10, 12 and 13 hours. While its printing require 8, 6, 5 and 11 hours respectively. There is only one printing machine and one binding machine available, and each machine can process only one book at a time. The sequence that minimizes total elapsed time is a. ACBD b. ABCD c. ADCB d. CBDA 2. The total elapsed time
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in the simulation. The success of Elite Solutions depended on the ability to assess the company’s financial position at any given time and make informed decisions based on the information provided. I chose to take a conservative approach at production capacity out of the gate, beginning the simulation with a capacity of 25 units per day, as the likelihood of sales exceeding that mark would have been highly unlikely and understanding that turning a profit is a tall order in the first quarter of
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approach as a cost reduction means in avoiding excess production being stored as inventory in a bid to cut down on cost. Lean manufacturing or lean production is basically a production practice that targets the identification and elimination of waste. Lean manufacturing changed the world as innovated by Toyota that is against mass production system (Taj Shahram, 2008).Taj believes lean means manufacturing without waste; here waste includes over production, waste in waiting time, transportation waste, inventory
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Chapter 8 Designing Lean Systems Video Case: Lean Systems at Autoliv Q1. Why is a visual management approach such an integral part of Autoliv’s lean system? Visual management is when a visual aid/device promotes more efficient and less wasteful processes. As mentioned in the text, a visual aid methodology that is commonly used is the Five S (5S). This method helps to organize, clean, develop, sustain, and sustaining a productive work environment (Krajewski, Ritzman, Malhotra, 2013). The 5S’s
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Value stream mapping in fast food restaurants Imran Khan Afridi1, Asim Khan1 1 Nust Business School, NUST, Islamabad, Pakistan (1imranafridi@live.com 1asim_3mba@yahoo.com) Abstract - The aim of this paper is to present that how Value stream mapping (VSM) can be applied to restaurant industry and especially fast food sector. The purpose was to identify wastes and how these can be reduced and/or eliminated by the help of value stream. A case study in Pakistan based restaurant has been carried
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