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Description of Quick Response Manufacturing. Explanation.Contributed by: Jane Austin |
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Definition Quick Response Manufacturing. Description.Quick Response Manufacturing (QRM) is a lead time reduction approach, aiming at reducing lead times in all phases of manufacturing and office operations, including concept, design, production and delivery. The method was developed by Rayan Suri in his book: Quick Response Manufacturing: A Companywide Approach to Reducing Lead Times, 1998. QRM helps to respond quickly to customers’ needs by rapidly designing and manufacturing products customized to the requirements. At the same time Quick Response Manufacturing internally results in improved quality, lower cost and a quick reponse. Compared to the Lean / JIT Approach, QRM is more suited for companies that make custom-engineered products in low or varying volumes. The following four core concepts are underlying a QRM strategy:
Quick Response Manufacturing versus Lean ManufacturingCompared to Lean, QRM emphasizes a different mindset: the driver for all the principles and strategies in QRM is reduction of lead time. This time-based mindset results in many operating policies that are different from traditional ones. In contrast the driver in Lean Production is reduction of resources. Furthermore QRM is a company-wide strategy, while typically JIT / Lean approaches are focusing on manufacturing and Materials Management.
Compare with: Just-in-time | Kaizen | Six Sigma | Value Chain | Value Stream Mapping | CPFR |
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