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A Competitive Strategy for Low-Volume and Custom Engineered Products that comes out of the University of Wisconsin. This workshop will combine theory with practical implementation details using case studies of many companies that have implemented QRM. To learn more about the event go to www.qrmcenter.org. $50 non-member, $20 HiDEC member. Click on event name above for detailed info.
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A Competitive Manufacturing Strategy for Low-Volume and Custom Engineered Products
Quick Response Manufacturing (QRM) is a company wide strategy which can reduce lead times by 80%-90%. For a large number of manufacturing operations it addresses critical components of manufacturing where Lean Manufacturing techniques such as takt time, pull system and one piece flow cannot be effectively applied. QRM can be a far more effective competitive strategy for companies targeting markets requiring low-volume, high mix or customer specific products.
This workshop will cover the four core concepts of QRM strategy
a. The Power of Time: Why lead time is much more important than most managers realize
b. Organizational Structure: Restructure your organization to minimize overall lead time
c. System Dynamics: How the interaction between machines, people and products impact your lead times, your optimum lot sizes and overall capacity planning.
d. Enterprise-wide Application: QRM is applied throughout the organization. In particular you will also get an introduction to POLCA, a shop floor alternative to Kanban which has proven to be ineffective for low-volume or custom products.
Tom Petullo the Vice-Chair of HiDEC’s steering committee and CI Director for Bright Wood recently attended Rajan Suri’s workshop at the QRM Center in Madison Wisconsin. He was
so impressed with the valuable information learned at the seminar that he arranged for Dr. Rajan Suri to visit Central Oregon to put on workshops for Bright Wood and HiDEC. It is a rare opportunity to learn from the originator of this incredibly effective manufacturing system.
For further information regarding this rare Central Oregon training opportunity presented by Rajan Suri the founding director of the Center for Quick Response Manufacturing contact Eric Stroble HiDEC administrator at
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About the presenter
Rajan Suri is Emeritus Professor of Industrial Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He received his Bachelors degree from Cambridge University (England) and his M.S. and Ph.D. from Harvard University. Dr. Suri is the Founding Director of the Center for Quick Response Manufacturing (QRM), a consortium of around 50 firms working with the University on understanding and implementing QRM strategies. He is internationally regarded as an expert on the analysis of manufacturing systems, and is author of the book Quick Response Manufacturing: A Companywide Approach to Reducing Lead Times (Productivity Press). Dr. Suri has consulted for leading firms including Alcoa, Danfoss, IBM, John Deere, National Oilwell Varco, Pratt & Whitney, Rockwell Automation and TREK Bicycle. Consulting assignments in Europe and the Far East, along with projects for the World Bank, have given him an international perspective on manufacturing competitiveness. Dr. Suri has received awards from the American Automatic Control Council, The Institute of Management Sciences and the IEEE. In 1999, Suri was made a Fellow of the Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME), and in 2006 he received SME’s Albert M. Sargent Progress Award for the creation and implementation of the Quick Response Manufacturing philosophy.
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