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Thursday, September 04, 2008

Just In Time : Todays Requirement

Guys, I might think that all you come across the words like QMS, TPM, EMS, FIFO, OHSAS, KAIZEN and KANBAN, etc. We are dealing with such systems while working with an organization. Each system has it's unique identity and only one effectiveness pertaining to the Quality and Productivity.

Here I am going to furnish one more unique system known as JIT (Just In Time).

Just-in-time, opened up by Taiichi Ohno in Japan at Toyota car assembly plant in the early 1970s, is a manufacturing organization philosophy. JIT cuts waste by supplying parts only when the assembly process requires them. At the heart of JIT lies the KANBAN, the Japanese word for card. This KANBAN card is sent to the warehouse to recorder a standard quantity of parts as and when they have been used up in the assembly/manufacturing process. JIT requires precision, as the right parts must arrive “just-in-time” at the right position (work station at the assembly line). It is used primarily for high-volume repetitive flow manufacturing processes.

Historically, the JIT philosophy bobbed up of two other things:

1. Japan’s wish to improve the quality of its production. At that time, Japanese companies had a bad reputation as far as quality of manufacturing and car manufacturing in particular was concerned.

2. Kaizen, also a Japanese method of continuous improvement.

The Just-in-time framework regards inventories as a poor excuse for bad planning, inflexibility, wrong machinery, quality problems, etc. The target of JIT is to speed up customer response while minimizing inventories at the same time. Inventories help to response quickly to changing customer demands, but in such a manner as could not be otherwise cost money and increase the needed working capital.

Typical attention areas of JIT implementations include:

1. Inventory reduction
2. Smaller production lots and batch sizes
3. Quality control
4. Complexity reduction an transparency
5. Flat organization structure and delegation
6. Waste minimization

Through the arrival of Internet and Supply Chain Planning software, companies have in the mean time extended Just-in-time manufacturing externally, by demanding from their suppliers to deliver inventory to the factory only when it’s needed for assembly, making JIT manufacturing, ordering an delivery processes ever speedier, more flexible and more efficient. In this way Integrated Supply Networks (Demand Networks) or Electronic Supply Chains are being formed. Just-in-time is sometimes referred to as ‘Lean Production’.

So, anywhere you are working with an organizations, if you come across the JIT system, please work upon the philosophy based on "Just In Time".

Wednesday, October 03, 2007

Experience Proves What You Are?

Guys,

There are so many issues in the Manufacturing Industry, from material receiving stage to final product delivery stage. In between this work so many people withing the organization doing their work with great efforts and wide responsibility. As we people dealt with engineering, the main function came into existence which is nothing but QUALITY ASSURANCE / QUALITY CONTROL person. Every time he should alert for incoming. process and outgoing quality of that particular product. During their they came across so many quality terms which they use regularly and learnt in colleges. But what happened when 14 years experienced person interviewed with small, tinny and funny question (which are most important and frequently used in the industry)? Yes, I have got this type of experience just 2 days back. I went PUNE for an interview. There is a post for TPM COORDINATOR. I reached at beautiful reception, one person came to me he kept one paper and told me Mr. XXXX is now outside the factory, till he reach here you should solve this paper and he left that place. For a moment I could not understand what is going on. As soon as I read this paper, I just dream for heart attack. I never sense anything at that time because of nuisance questions. Just take a look of it...

What is tolerance?
What is least count?
How many "mm" in One Inch?
What do you mean by "Quality of Product"?
Define the term "Productivity" in wide angle?
How an engineer resolve "Technical Problem"?
What do you mean by "Mean, Mode, Median"?
What is the formula to find out "Area of Circle"?
What is the weight of "1 Liter Water in Kgs"?
How the electricity generated?

How 14 yrs experience person feels at this stage? I am angry with the management and anathemise them for this type of stupid questions (inside my heart only). But, after sometime I realize that, what I have done in past 14 yrs. are all wasted. I must know the meanings and answers of routine words. I just pull out my mind from a big tension and thought silengthly on this issue. Being a Quality person, my mind works better on all these question. I wrote all these question briefly and feel tensionless.

It is truth that EXPERIENCE PROVES WHAT YOU ARE?

So, my dear QUALITY concerned friends please do not go with over confidence for interviewing yourself. Prepare yourself very well with all possible quality terms....next coming post/vacancy would be yours !!! Best Luck for your future !!!

Regards

Aniruddha

Sunday, June 04, 2006

Services Offered By QCFI

Services Offered By QCFI are as follows :

i. Quality Circle Integrated with Quality Management.
ii. Quality Improvement Teams.
iii. Six Sigma Implementation.
iv. Learning Problem Solving Techniques/New Seven Tools.
v. Five S and Kaizen and Five S certification.
vi. Total Productive Maintenance (TPM).
vii. ISO 9000: 2000 and ISO 14000.
viii. Supply Chain Management.
ix. TRIZ.
x. All other Quality Concepts.

source: http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Acres/3257/seroff.htm

Related Links :

01. Do You Know About QCFI?
02. QCFI and its Contribution to Quality Circle Movement In INDIA
03. Dr. K. Ishikawa : Founder of Quality Circle
04. History of Early 1950's

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