Quality Parts
Which of the changes being considered by the manager of Quality Parts Company are counter to the JIT philosophy?
The most conspicuous proposed change is the manager's request that the industrial engineering department look into high-rise shelving to store parts coming off machine 4. Any parts coming off of any machine, not just machine 4, should be immediately sent to the next machine for further processing. Even though a 10% scrap rate is inordinately high, she should hold off on the rework line as this adds an additional level of complexity to the process, which is certainly counter to the JIT philosophy. More specifically, if it is only being used to remanufacture 10% of the factory's output (10% being the scrap rate), look at how much more floor space (a scarce resource that needs to be maximized) is going to be required just to solve that 10% problem -- with no guarantees that all 10% of the scrapped units can be successfully remanufactured. If her quality control efforts pay off, a rework line won't be necessary anyway. That's the third thing -- the quality control inspectors. If she is serious about solving the quality control problem, she needs to think about re-designing the assembly process to minimize the number of times people have to touch the parts; this is almost always where the problems enter that lead to...
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