Ahsan Iqbal

12123019

MBA

Apply Lean and Six Sigma to Maintenance cost cheap

A firm can have competitive advantages over other firms by managing its operations. Different
systems are needed for efficiency such as lean production, Just in Time, TQM which also
increases quality of production and reduce the cost, also helpful in industry gain
competitive advantages. Business processes have variation, variation is your enemy we try to
reduce variation for competitive advantage. We know about waste and set a standard try to
reduce waste that help maintain quality.
Product Quality and Reliability
Applying Lean Six Sigma to maintenance our quality mission is to deliver superior products and
customer value through innovation, service and manufacturing excellence. We will ensure that
services meet or exceed our customers quality and reliability expectations and we will
continually improve the effectiveness of our quality management system through total quality
management.
Identifying Customer Value
Lean Manufacturing methodologies are used to identify and reduce the waste, non-valued added
activity from the customers viewpoint. In this case, the customer is production. Best Practices
for Maintenance Management, the primary reason for maintenance is to ensure equipment
uptime for production to meet its schedules.Maintenance has many business processes and they
contain waste. Application of Lean Six Sigma methods needs to involve the individuals who
actually do the work. They insure an understanding of how the processes really work. Involving
these people also provides a check that the changes are practical and will function. Getting their
acceptance provides the needed buy-in for the changes to be implemented and sustained.
Delivery Speed
As businesses increasingly adopt lean technologies, and just in time strategies they are asked to
deliver code to customers more frequently and with greater accuracy, and to respond more
quickly to market need. In order to implement it properly and realize the benefits from its
implementation it will probably be necessary to engage in significant business process reengineering.Continuous delivery is a methodology designed to facilitate the rapid and accurate
approach that help to improve delivery speed. Optimizing the software delivery process to focus
on through put and systemic performance. The principles of continuous delivery evolved from
the Theory of Constraints . The Theory of Constraints takes a scientific approach to continuous
improvement.

Ahsan Iqbal
12123019

MBA

Coping with a change in demand Change its volume

We will need two types of forecast a demand forecast to help manage our operations, and a
supply forecast to send to our suppliers to prepare them to respond to our requirements. The
supply forecast is a direct result of the demand forecast, so while this white paper will focus on
the demand forecast, the principles discussed are equally applicable to managing supply
forecasts.
As a general rule, forecasts are always inaccurate. This paper discusses two approaches which
can be used to reduce the risk and impact of inaccurate forecasts:
1. Collaboration between customers and suppliers to improve the accuracy of the forecast.
2. Quicker response to demand changes to reduce the impact and cost of forecast error.

Note that it is not necessary to improve the cycle time for all our customers. The key is
to focus on the source of most variability in our demand which is the main cause of
forecast error. If the unit error from a particular customer is small, then the buffer stock
we carry for that customer is also small. Customers with large unit errors in their forecast
are the ones that force we to carry more buffer stock these are the ones that you should
work with to improve accuracy and to reduce cycle time.

Run processes in parallel if possible, and eliminate the activity completely if it does not
add value.

Look for changes in processes and technology that would eliminate the most time from
your forecast and response cycle.

Flexibility and new product introduction speed

Flexibility means the company must have the ability to react quickly to meet the marketplace
needs. Flexibility will be required in many areas: product design, new technology, mix and
volume changes, meeting customer needs. The key to success will be a company's ability to
succeed in the following three areas we use just in time approach to check customer need and
knowing trend change our product according to customer expectations.
Reducing the lead time needed to get high quality, reliable new products to the marketplace on
time. This process is usually called New Product Development.
New Product Development process that is well managed and is under control.

Assess customer needs accurately and in a timely manner.

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Alwayes good internal communication or teamwork.

Formal New Product Development process.

MBA