TPM
Building in quality through control of first-of-run products
The system ensures that quality is built into the product by making it impossible for any product to be shipped until the production department has carried out a process FMEA, implemented and checked countermeasures, and locked them down.
Read More »Designing-in factory-friendliness at the product development stage
Before starting to design the product, identify any specific issues concerning the factory-friendliness of current products, and build the solutions to these issues into the design of the new product.
Read More »Early Product Management – Objective and Basic Approach
The ultimate aim of an Early Product Management system is to ensure that all problems are detected and dealt with early in the product development process, totally eliminating the need for changes from the prototyping stage onwards.
Read More »The anatomy of a Life-Cycle Costing system
The lower the sum of the cost of capital and the operating cost, the better. If the alternative proposal has a different output, the comparison is done using the cost per unit of output.
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4M Analysis Process: Root Cause Guide for Manufacturing
Learn how to use 4M Analysis to find manufacturing root causes across People, Machine, Method, and Material with diagrams, examples, and checklist.
