Subject :- Quality and Reliability Engineering

Topic :- World class manufacturing and

Agile manufacturing
Shree swami atmanand saraswati
institute of technology
Prepared by :- Limbani Chirag 110760119035
Thakor Devraj 110760119036

Submitted to :- Professor HGV sir
World Class Manufacturing
World class manufacturing is a collection of concepts, which set standard for production
and manufacturing for another organization to follow.

Japanese manufacturing is credited with pioneer in concept of world-class manufacturing.

World class manufacturing was introduced in the automobile, electronic and steel industry.

World class manufacturing is a process driven approach where various techniques and
philosophy are used in one combination or other.



WCM Approach
World class manufacturing is a process driven approach where various techniques and philosophy are used
in one combination or other.

Some of the techniques are as follows:

Make to order

Streamlined Flow

Smaller lot sizes


Collection of parts

Doing it right first time

Cellular or group manufacturing

Total preventive maintenance

Quick replacement

Zero Defects

Just in Time
Focus Areas

Safety : to eliminate accident

Quality : to way to reach the best production quality in worldwide

Cost : Reduce production cost by reducing wasteland loss

Delivery : Reduce delivery time

Environment : Reduce environmental accidents to zero and reduce negative environmental effects


Six Principles of world class manufacturing
Just in time
JIT is a complete business philosophy and a process of thinking , working and managing to eliminate waste.

Total quality management
It is a culture of intolerance to defects both in the processes and also information such as bills os materials and
stock records .

Total productive maintenance
Whenever practical , a preventative programme means that unplanned stoppages due to equipment failure are
minimized .

Lean manufacturing
It is the step by step elimination of waste .

Agile manufacturing
It is an approach to manufacturing which is focused on meeting the needs of customers while maintaining high
standards of quality and controlling the overall costs involved in the production of a product .


Concurrent engineering
It refers to an approach used in product development in which function of design engineering , manufacturing
engineering and other functions are integrated to reduce the elapsed time required to bring a new product to
the market .

Examples of WCM

Agile manufacturing is a term applied to an organization that has created the processes, tools and training to enable it to
respond quickly to customer needs and market changes while still controlling costs and quality



Agility property consisting of quickness, lightness and ease of movement.

The ability to create and respond to change in order to profit in a turbulent global business environment.

The ability to quick reprioritize use of resources when requirements, technology andknowlege shift.

A very fast response to sudden market changes and emerging threats by intensive customer interaction.

Use of evolutionary, incremental and iterative delivery to converge on an optimal customer solution.

Maximizing BUSINESS VALUE with right sized, just enough and just-in-time processes and documentation

An enabling factor in becoming an agile manufacturer has been the development of manufacturing support
technology that allows the marketers, the designers and the production personnel to share a common database of
parts and products, to share data on production capacities and problems-particularly where small initial problems
may have larger downstream effects
It is a general proposition of manufacturing that the cost of the correcting quality issues increases as the
problem moves the downstream, so that it is cheaper to quality problems at the earliest possible point in the
process.
ATTRIBUTES OF AGILITY:
Agility has four underlying components:

1) Delivering value to the customer;
2) Being ready for the change;
3) Valuing human knowledge and skills;
4) Forming virtual partnership.