Additive manufacturing

When was the last time you had a commercial HVAC system annual maintenance check? Your business needs to have a reliable source for heat and cool, as well as the ability to filter out airborne pollutants. This keeps the air in your business clean and at a comfortable temperature. Routine maintenance is essential. Why is an annual maintenance check so important for your commercial HVAC system? Better Energy Efficiency The simple fact is that HVAC systems become less efficient without regular…

Why Should U.S. Companies Invest in Lean Manufacturing? In today’s global market there is an increased need for companies to be able to compete with one another more proficiently. United States manufacturing companies have learned the hard way that it is difficult to compete with manufacturing firms from other countries. Overseas manufacturing firms have traditionally lacked the capital to compete with their United States counterparts in terms of scale, but have nonetheless been capable of…

In the world of Operations Management, especially in manufacturing, change is inevitable. There can be changes to the product based on customer feedback and product improvement. There can be changes to the processes due to new technology, think about robots, or product redesign. There can also be changes to the basic way you extrapolate data to determine how your operations are running. We used to keep track of production data on paper, it was inefficient at best and lacked the timeliness to…

Lean Manufacturing and Process Improvement 06-91/92-590-34S Assignment -1 Production Flow Analysis through Value Stream Mapping: A Lean Manufacturing Process Case Study Submitted to: MR. SARDAR ASIF ALI KHAN Submitted by: G. Venkata Krishna Student ID.NO:10472231 Problems faced by the company? From a few decades the life of an automotive industry has changed because of implementation of lean and its…

Toyota's management system, officially known as the Toyota Production System (TPS) has patterned its management strategy from the scientific management. Taiichi Ohno, a former president of Toyota, studied the work of Fredrick Taylor and invented the "TPS": Toyota Production System. The purpose of this production system was to prevent inconsistency in the work and eliminate wastes or delays. The company did not want their workers to stand, wait and attend machines. The workers were required to…

Critical issues facing truck drivers and trucking industry A truck driver is a person who earns money by driving a truck, semi truck, box truck or dump truck. Truck drivers are meant to transport raw material or finished items from manufacturing plants and retail distributors. They are responsible to have a check over mechanics of their trucks to ensure a safe and steady transportation. Types of truck drivers There are three types of truck drivers and so trucking system: 1. Owner-drivers: They…

identifies five performance metrics in two categories: customer-facing metrics that include reliability, responsiveness, and flexibility, and the internal-facing metrics that include cost and assets. In reality, the SCOR-model is normally employed by manufacturing companies to demarcate their supply chain processes and activities, and related performance measures. For a company that has ISO 9000 certification, the SCOR-model is a significant backing to confirm supply chain quality standards.…

1. You need to perform a SWOT analysis on the company? Answer: SWOT Analysis: Following is the SWOT analysis of the company: Strengths:  Simple and clean products.  Good business structure.  Situated in a good business area.  Good back end integration regarding the company’s products.  Plenty of loyal customers. Weaknesses:  Complicated supply chain structure.  Inadequate operational strategies.  Poor interaction with customers.  Inadequate marketing strategies.  Less number of…

1. What is the basis of Toyota’s competitive advantage? The basis of Toyota’s competitive advantage is that since its foundation, Toyota's standard has been to endeavour continually to manufacture 'better items at lesser expenses.' To this end, Toyota has added to its own novel 11 generation strategy. This framework is taking into account the thought of 'in the nick of time' (i.e. creating just the essential measure of parts exactly at its required time), the thought of Toyota Founder Kiichiro…

1.0 Introduction This report has been carried out to understand how the company, Nike Inc., has implemented Lean Production in their manufacturing process and to give suggestions for further improvement if possible. 1.1 Lean Production Lean production is one of the many Japanese process of cutting down waste whilst ensuring that the quality of the product does not suffer. It includes Kaizen, cell production, Just In Time (JIT). Kaizen involves continuous improvement. Whilst cell production is…