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QRM: An Enabler on the Road to Agility? Quick Response Manufacturing - Part 2 - Analytical techniques Article
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ARTICLE DESCRIPTION: Quick Response Manufacturing is a technique developed in the USA at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where as a result of successfully working with numerous organisations, the Centre for Quick Response Manufacturing has been established at the campus.
MORE INFO: QRM: An Enabler on the Road to Agility? Quick Response Manufacturing - Part 2 Quick Response Manufacturing is a technique developed in the USA at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where as a result of successfully working with numerous organisations, the Centre for Quick Response Manufacturing has been established at the campus. Business literature introduced the Time-Based Competition strategy (TBC) in the late 1980s [1], in North America particularly, its specific application to the manufacturing arena has become known as Quick Response Manufacturing [3 ]. In the first part of this article the author gave readers an appreciation of the QRM philosophy and suggested that some of the tools and techniques developed in the USA for this approach could be adopted in the UK when embarking on a road towards Agility. This second part of the article introduces the special material control system developed, and the simulation software component of the approach.As a summary of the concepts, the following principles developed by Professor Rajan Suri are included to compliment the contents of the first part of the article.
PUBLISHER: Institute of Operations Management
Page number: 15 Word count: 3000
Vol 28 - No 05 - June 2002
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