Case Study Microlite S.A.: the Pan-Orient Decision

| The Purpose of this project is to increase overall sales by developing new products, increasing productivity and national presence and reducing dependence on equipment suppliers. To accomplish this creation of a new manufacturing plant is required. The plant will be built in a

Total Quality Management is a process that strives for complete satisfaction internally and externally. There are two popular methods used in today’s organizations, The Toyota Production System and the Six Sigma model. Toyota created its management system over the course of three decades. It is also known as lean manufacturing, which is in regards to limiting the amount of waste produced. This is not just physical waste but includes the management of time throughout the process, for example time waiting, conveyance,

Recommendation:1. Improve Just-in-time systemSpartan Plastic Limited need to improve Just-in-time system, it is control aims to maintain inventory level at zero, with an immediate objective of reducing the capital tied to the inventories. It is an important principle that able to eliminating waste throughout the production system. The waste can occur, through excess inventories and overly large lot sizes, both of which can cause unnecessarily long customer lead times. Let's explain the role of the core JIT practices in enhancing manufacturing performance. JIT manufacturing requires the establishment of JIT supplier relationships with suppliers; Spartan in this case, that is able and willing to deliver the needed quantities of parts as the needs arise and without any defects.

The goal of the program is to increase improve sustainability, and reduce errors on production lines by 20%

Project Quality Management| -Cost Benefit Analysis -Cost of Quality -Control Charts -Benchmarking -Design of Experiments -Statistical Sampling -Flowcharting -Proprietary quality manage- ment methodologies -Additional quality planning tools (Brainstorming, Affinity Diagrams, Nominal Group Technique)| -Cost benefit: Looking at how much your quality activities will cost. -Benchmarking: means using the results of quality planning on other projects to set goals for your own. -Design of experiments: is the list of all the kinds of tests you are going to run on your product. -Total Quality Management (TQM): Everyone in the company is responsible for quality and is able to make a difference -Continuous Improvement (Kaizen): constant process improvement in the form of small changes -Just-In-Time(JIT) -ISO 9000: Companies document what they do and they do what they document

To find out all available options and their pros and cons my team has put together the following analysis:

To make clearly the solution here the table of advantages and disadvantages of those solutions:

At the outset, there are numerous ways to tackle this problem, but the highly conspicuous one stems from the fact that wide range of

The Theory of Constraints indicates that excess capacity from ‘subordinate’ departments should be utilized to lessen the strain on the bottlenecked department. Until the constraint on production has been removed management should subordinate everything else to the constraint. The proposed action of outsourcing inspection from the coating and sharpening department will free-up more valuable direct labor hours in the area of constraint. A separate inspection station before the final stage of production should be added to the production process. An employee from the chemical bathing stage will be cross-trained to inspect products as needed for the brief periods of inspection required. Because the second process has been deemed subordinate to the area experiencing constraint its excess capacity can be utilized in a more valuable capacity. Each additional hour in the coating and sharpening process will result in a firm benefit of $1250, or the contribution margin per unit of constraint for the Model C210. The addition of an inspection

The manager of Shamrock Manufacturing plans replacing of large piece of manufacturing equipment that the company uses in a production process with a more efficient model. The replacement of 3-years old equipment promises reducing the direct manufacturing and electricity costs. The manager of the plant hesitates replacing because the next year he expects promotion in larger Houston plant and the fright that he will he will reduce the operating income.

A third disadvantage of applying JIC manufacturing operations is having lower quality assurance methods and even further, lower customer satisfaction (“Just-in-case and just-in-time…”). While the just-in-case system is beneficial in

Goal: Reduce product variance and the need for rework by implementing a company-wide quality control system that includes an element of Statistical Process Control. A secondary goal is to reduce waste by focusing on Lean

Rio Tinto had advanced marketing capabilities. Rio Tinto had favorable relationships with the British Government when it entered to uranium development in the middle of 1950. The marketers have good relationships with Rio Tinto due to the good way negotiation style of the company. The company has strong bargaining power and also good relationships with the governments. Rio Tinto approached the private sectors too to collaborate on mining with them. (Sugawara, 2012). Rio Tinto realized that matching the Ores to the right buyers is one of the marketing skills of the

To meet the needs of this project, we used a lot of situations similar methods. I'll analysis the advantages and disadvantages of each method.

The two industrial corporation addressed are Yogurtland and Micromax. These, two organizations are viewing options of what type of global expansion to explore. By studying one of the three types of global development to pursue. In deciding whether their affiliating vendors will operate and succeed as a standardization or localization operation. Therefore, the business process can take full advantage of a growing phone market of Russia. Consequently, providing the best fit for Yogurtland in different international locations.