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ARTICLE DESCRIPTION: In the summer of 2002 two articles [1,2] written by Lindsay Harding appeared in Control magazine. They described the Quick Response Manufacturing (QRM) approach developed by Rajan Suri at the University of Wisconsin in the USA.

MORE INFO: Quick Response Manufacturing: ‘When Kanban is Not the Solution’ In the summer of 2002 two articles [1,2] written by Lindsay Harding appeared in Control magazine. They described the Quick Response Manufacturing (QRM) approach developed by Rajan Suri at the University of Wisconsin in the USA. At the time, Trevor Turner was working on a Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) in an SME, located near to Glasgow, making metal valves. The company, which manufactures custom engineered products, was finding that to stay competitive it needed to reduce the delivery lead-time to customer requests - whilst at the same time reducing operating costs. It seemed to Trevor that the QRM approach described in the articles could offer solutions to both of these problems.

PUBLISHER: Institute of Operations Management

Page number: 20 Word count: 2500

Vol 32 - No 02 - March 2006

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