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Each laptops consists of 2 USB ports and 4 memory chips. The USB
are made by the firm,and fabrication takes one week. The memory
chips are ordered, and lead time (LT) is two weeks. There is a
scheduled receipt of 80 memory in (at the beginning of) week 1.
Product structure tree :
• The concept of ‘lean’ stresses the elimination of waste, while ‘just-in-time’ emphasizes
the idea of producing items only when they are needed.
• But all three concepts overlap to a large degree, and no definition fully conveys the full
implications for operations practice.
JIT is a philosophy founded on doing the simple things well, or gradually doing
them better, and on squeezing out waste every step of the way.
• Core principles:
– The elimination of waste: the removal of any activity which does not add value
(seven types of waste)
– The involvement of everyone: JIT is a ‘total system’ approach which aims to
pull together everyone in a system
– Continuous improvement: the JIT objective, which, being an ideal, aims to
promote continuous improvement through an organisation.
• Basic working practices, such as the use of standards, fair personnel policies and
working practices, flexibility of responsibilities, autonomy, ‘line stop’ authority (allowing
people to stop the process if problems occur) and an improvement in problem solving,
data gathering and personal development.
• Design for manufacture: fostering a close relationship between design and operations
to ensure that what is designed can be made well.
• Operations focus: focusing on simplicity, repetition and experience.
• Past experiences, individual knowledge and history will all shape customers’
expectations.
• Each customer may perceive a product or service in different ways.
• Quality needs to be understood from a customer’s point of view because, to the
customer, the quality of a particular product or service is whatever he or she
perceives it to be.
• Also customers may be unable to judge the ‘technical’ specification of the service or
product and so use surrogate measures as a basis for their perception of quality.
• The operation’s view of quality is concerned with trying to meet customer expectations.
• The customer’s view of quality is what he or she perceives the product or service to be.
• To create a unified view, quality can be defined as the degree of fit between customers’
expectations and customer perception of the product or service.
• TQM is ‘an effective system for integrating the quality development, quality maintenance and
quality improvement efforts of the various groups in an organization so as to enable production
and service at the most economical levels which allow for full customer satisfaction’.
• TQM is a philosophy of how to approach the organization of quality improvement. This totality
includes:
– meeting the needs and expectations of customers;
– covering all parts of the organization;
– including every person in the organization;
– examining all costs which are related to quality, especially failure costs and getting things ‘right first
time’;
– developing the systems and procedures which support quality and improvement (ISO 9000, ISO
14000);
– developing a continuous process of improvement.
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and Development Institute
© Copyright 2018, Vietnam Logistics Research
and Development Institute
TQM means meeting the needs &
expectations of customers
• TQM is ‘an effective system for integrating the quality development, quality maintenance and
quality improvement efforts of the various groups in an organization so as to enable production
and service at the most economical levels which allow for full customer satisfaction’.
• TQM is a philosophy of how to approach the organization of quality improvement. This totality
includes:
– meeting the needs and expectations of customers;
– covering all parts of the organization;
– including every person in the organization;
– examining all costs which are related to quality, especially failure costs and getting things ‘right first
time’;
– developing the systems and procedures which support quality and improvement (ISO 9000);
– developing a continuous process of improvement.
• Internal customer or supplier: errors in the service provided within an organization will
eventually affect the product or service which reaches the external customer.
• Service-level agreements: are formal definitions of the dimensions of service and the
relationship between two parts of an organization.
– The type of issues which would be covered by such an agreement could include
response times, the range of services, dependability of service supply, and so on.
– Boundaries of responsibility and appropriate performance measures could also be
agreed.
• Prevention costs are those costs incurred in trying to prevent problems, failures and errors
from occurring in the first place.
• Appraisal costs are those costs associated with controlling quality to check to see if
problems or errors have occurred during and after the creation of the product or service.
• Internal failure costs are failure costs associated with errors which are dealt with inside the
operation.
• External failure costs are those which are associated with an error going out of the
operation to a customer.
• ISO 9000 (2000) took a ‘process’ approach that focused on outputs from any operation’s
process rather than the detailed procedures in previous version of ISO 9000
• Four other principles of ISO 9000 (2000):
– Quality management should be customer-focused.
– Quality performance should be measured.
– Quality management should be improvement-driven.
– Top management must demonstrate their commitment to maintaining and continually
improving management systems.
• A quality strategy.
• Top management support.
• A steering group.
• Group-based improvement.
• Success is recognised.
• Training is the heart of quality improvement.