On Demand Manufacturing

Project Performance and Quality Assurance

 MPM375-1404B-01

On Demand Manufacturing

Derek Campbell

Colorado Technical University Online:

December 21, 2014
Dr. Sadu Shetty

Table of Contents

Project Outline        3

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Organizational Readiness for Quality Management        5

Quality Systems Analysis        6

Quality Dimensions and Criteria        8

Quality Process Improvement Tools and Techniques        11

Quality Performance Monitoring and Control        15

TBD        15

Three Levels of Quality Management        16

TBD        16

Quality Performance Communications Plan        17

References        18

Project Outline

        I work for Kinze Manufacturing in Williamsburg Iowa. They create grain carts and corn planters. They have had some record years here recently. Because of this they have needed to up production of planters for the farmers. By doing this they have had to look at different ways to make things faster and also they want a way to be able to not take up as much space because more planters should mean more space taken up. By doing on demand manufacturing or lean manufacturing we are going to be able to kill two birds with one stone. We will be able to make planters faster and not take up as much space at the same time.

        Many people in the plant realize that things need to change in order to be able to keep up with the production that the higher orders are requiring. Batch building like they currently do has been good up to this point but needs to be modified to keep up with the changing times. Batch building takes up to much space and the parts arent always needed all the time so they just sit there collecting dust. This can lead to unused parts because the planter may have a change indesign or they may find out there could be a flaw in something so it needs changed. This can force the current parts already built to be scrapped and new ones built. This results in to lost man hours and money down the drain because of it.  “Leaders are able to gain commitment from people” (Lewis, 2003, pg.19).  

        First thing that needs to be put in place is an actual Lean manufacturing committee or group so they can study and react how to make things better. They will look at the current state of everything and  decide the best route of action to go. This is where the project manager will come in to place because he will decide what needs to be done and when it needs to be done.

Organizational Readiness for Quality Management

        The current organizational quality management systems used to date are ISO 9000 and ISO 14000, Six Sigma, Total Quality Management with Lean Manufacturing being introduced..  The company uses all of these systems in different yet successful ways.  The ISO quality management systems are used for our document control, auditing guidelines and environmental compliance measures to keep the certification (Summers, 2009).  The TQM is used to keep our upper management in tune with quality measurements and keeping with our corporate initiatives for quality.  The Lean Manufacturing and Six Sigma efforts are used to reduce waste in processes and to improve profitability of the manufacturing processes.