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Approaches to Manufacturing Flashcards

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What is quick response manufacturing?

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QRM is an approach to manufacturing that focuses on reducing lead times

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What is lead time?

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The time between the start and completion of a production process

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What are the benefits of Quick Response Manufacturing?

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  • It can bring your products to the market more quickly and help you compete in a rapidly changing market.
  • It will increase profitability by reducing cost, enhance delivery performance and improve quality
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How are storage costs reduced?

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Smaller batches are made

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How is the cost of quality reduced?

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Less waste produced

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How does it increase the turnover of stock?

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Stock is only made on demand

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What are the problems of QRM?

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  • Highly dependent on suppliers to react to demand
  • A lack of supply can cause problems when trying to meet customer demand
  • Managing the QRM process can be difficult (managing the responsibilities of staff)
  • Large variation in demand will cause problems if the manufacturer can’t react to the high production of volume quick enough
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What does TQM stand for?

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Total Quality Management

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What is Total Quality Management?

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An approach to manufacturing that involves all the staff being committed to maintaining high standards in all aspects of the production process

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What are the advantages of TQM?

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  • Higher quality products are made at a lower cost
  • Minimisation of waste and lead times
  • Reduced expenses
  • Improved consistency
  • Increased customer loyalty
  • Reduction of turnover and less money spent on training
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What are the disadvantages of TQM?

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  • Quality is expensive
  • Employee resistance will stop TQM
  • Discourages creativity
  • Requires more time and effort
  • Requires more initial training
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What does JIT stand for?

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Just In Time stock control

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What is Just In Time stock management?

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Approach to inventory management where stock is only received when and were they need it and less stock sits in storage

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What are the advantages of JIT?

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  • Less space needed
  • Goods are less likely to become obsolete, degrade or become damaged
  • Faster turnaround of stock
  • Waste reduced
  • Heavy cash flow
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What are the disadvantages of JIT?

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  • Risk of running out of stock
  • If suppliers don’t deliver in time the business will fail to meet demand
  • If demand frequently changes it may be difficult to plan ahead
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what is Concurrent Manufacturing?

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CM involves simultaneously completing design and manufacturing stages of production

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What is the benefit of Concurrent Manufacturing?

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By completing the design and manufacturing stages at the same time, products are produced in less time while lowering cost. Can lead to a competitive advantage over other businesses as the product maybe produced and marketed in less time

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What are the disadvantages of Concurrent Manufacturing?

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  • Complex to manage
  • Relies on everyone working together hence communication is critical
  • Room for mistakes are small as it impacts all the departments or discipline i.e. electrical, mechanical or software
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What does QFD stand for?

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Quality Function Deployment

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What is QFD?

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Quality Function Deployment (QFD) is a means of planting customer requirements into appropriate technical requirements for each stage of product or service development and production

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What are the advantages of Quality Function Deployment

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  • Improves teamwork
  • Improves production efficiency
  • Useful for planning
  • Keeps the customer in mind so that the end product is tailored to their needs
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What are the disadvantages of Quality Function Deployment

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  • Requires accurate data analysis
  • Adapting to changing customer needs can be more costly, difficult and complex
  • Ignores other factors such as cost, the length of the product life cycle, long-term strategy and growth objectives and available resources

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