COMM 225 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Total Productive Maintenance, Operations Management, Statistical Process Control
9 Dec 2016
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
Just-in-time (jit) manufacturing: tries to make parts and products when needed, reducing inventories. Total quality management (tqm): involves all personnel levels in organization in quality assurance and statistical quality control, including root-cause analysis. Total productive maintenance (tpm): use of operator (autonomous maintenance) and maintenance technicians (professional maintenance) to reduce machine downtimes. Total industrial engineering (tie): use of industrial engineering to reduce worker injuries and increase productivity. Is closely related to all of these. Setting standards and standard methods important part of this. /inventories) measured by 10 technical criteria (technical pillars) and 10 managerial criteria, which includes deployment and alignment of goals from plant manager down to area managers, supervisors, and workers. Cost deployment: determining costs of each loss/waste. Focused improvement: selecting most costly waste/loss to study/eliminate. Early product/equipment management: designing machines that are easy to run and. People development: measuring skill level of employees and training them as are reliable required.
