Operations and materials management

Operations and Materials Management

For the most part, production can be increase if the difficulties involving the drill and tap can be removed or be just even trim down. The following action can be prepared to improve the production. First is to fine-tune and change parts of the drill presses to ensure that the machine is working at its optimal performance for most of the time. Also, adopting the Kanban system will be a great deal of help since it will make the supplier or the warehouse only deliver components to the production line as and when they are needed, so that there is no storage in the production area. Within this system, workstations located along production lines only produce/deliver desired components when they receive a card and an empty container, indicating that more parts will be needed in production. In case of line interruptions, each workstation will only produce enough components to fill the container and then stop. In addition, Kanban limits the amount of inventory in the process by acting as an authorization to produce more inventories. Since Kanban is a chain process in which orders flow from one process to another, the production or deliveries of components are pulled to the production line. In contrast to the traditional forecast oriented method where parts are pushed to the line.

To minimize the cost of quality, adopting a preventative and predictive methods for manufacturing quality control will be a good thing. Implementing real time SPC software is a proven, fundamental tool used to detect, and ultimately prevent, process errors that lead to defects, scrap or waste. Using SPC control charts that graphically display real time, actionable information to operators and managers is one of the features if this software is put into practice. This empowers personnel to detect and correct out of control situations, minimize variation, and continuously improve the manufacturing process resulting to higher quality products and a more cost effective, capable process. Statistical process control (SPC) procedures can help monitor process behavior. A control chart also helps you record data and lets you see when an unusual event, e.g., a very high or low observation compared with "typical" process performance, occurs.

Agreeing to have a Total Preventive Maintenance (TPM) approach places the responsibility for routine maintenance on the workers who operate the machinery, rather then employing separate maintenance personnel for that function. TPM gives employees a sense of responsibility and awareness of the equipment they use and cuts down on abuse and misuse of the equipment.

Using a conveyor system will be useful in applications involving the transportation of heavy or bulky materials by allowing quick and efficient transportation for a wide variety of materials. Conveyors are able to safely transport materials from one level to another, which when done by human labor would be strenuous and expensive. They can be installed almost anywhere, and are much safer than using a forklift or other machine to move materials. Cutting the bufferstock will result to immediate parts lacking in numbers and cutting down on lot sizes will result to more problems other than the drill and tap. Bringing in new design engineers to evaluate and redesign will take a lot of time but hiring a customer representative who will be responsible for ensuring that the customer requirements are implemented.