Chapter 8 Flashcards
Quality is measured by what?
Customer Satisfaction
How do companies maintain customer satisfaction?
- Understand customer needs
- Set up activities
- Perform activities (consistently)
- Measure customer satisfaction and cost
- Improve
What is the output of SCM in Customer Service?
- Low cost/efficiency
- Quality
- Responsiveness to needs
What is Process Management?
The application of knowledge, skills, tools, techniques, and systems to define, visualize, measure, control, report, and improve processes with the goal to meet customer requirements efficiently.
What does Process Management enable a firm to do?
Achieve desired levels of customer service (low cost, quality, responsiveness).
What are the key philosophies & practices of Process Management?
- Lean Production (Lean Manufacturing) (waste)
- Six Sigma (reduce variation)
- Lean Six Sigma (combination)
Where did Lean Production originate?
Japan
What is Lean Production?
The operating philosophy of waste reduction & value enhancement of the Toyota Production System (TPS)
What factors is Lean Production based on?
- Waste reduction
- Continuous improvement
- Lean supply chain relationships & Channel integration
- Lean layouts (Visual)
- Inventory and setup time reductions (Synchronization)
- Small batch scheduling
- Workforce empowerment
What are the key concepts incorporated in TPS?
Muda
Kanban
Poka-Yoke
Yokoten
What is Muda?
Waste in all aspects of production
What is Kanban?
Signal card & part of JIT
What is Poka-Yoke?
Error or mistake-proofing
What is Yokoten?
Sharing of best practices
What are the seven wastes of lean manufacturing?
- Overproducing
- Waiting
- Transportation
- Overprocessing
- Excess Inventory
- Excess Movement
- Scrap and Rework
What are International Paper’s 8 Forms of Waste that don’t add value to the customer?
- Defects
- Overproduction
- Waiting
- Non-Utilization of Talent
- Transportation
- Inventory
- Motion
- Extra-Processing
What are the 5-S’s?
- Sort: First we get rid of all that we do not need!
- Set: We find a place for everything and its placed there
- Shine: Clean and polish. Make sure we detect deviations
- Standardize: Checklist and procedures
- Sustain: Training, measure, communicate, enforce
What are Lean Layouts?
Very visual (lines of visibility are unobstructed) with operators at one processing center able to monitor work at another.
How is Lean Layout usually shaped?
U-shaped
What are the characteristics of Lean layout?
- Grouped by similar activities, reduces machinery, increases skills
- Reduce movements
- Feed to the line, eliminates stock areas
- More flexible, easy to adapt to changes
What is the key principle of lean manufacturing?
Waste reduction and continuous improvement.
Inventory hides_____!
Waste
Small production batches are accomplished with the use of ____.
Kanbans
What are Kanbans?
Generate demand for parts at all stages of production creating a “pull” system
What is the Pull System?
A production system that uses customer demand as the primary driver for production planning
What is the Push System
A production system that focuses on maximizing the use of production capacity, and therefore is based on estimated customer demand (most often provided by a forecast).