Flexible production
Purpose:
The aim of flexible production is to organize all business functions in a way that allows a high level of responsiveness and flexibility in production with minimal time losses from order to completion under the conditions required by small batch production.
Characteristics:
- Providing strategic guidelines and coordinating development activities and investments
- Establishing efficient operational production preparations function and improving the planning system
- Establishing an efficient purchasing function and strengthening partnerships with suppliers
- Establishing an efficient sales function and strengthening partnerships with customers
- Establishing an efficient and target oriented development process
- Strengthening R&D skills in line with the strategic guidelines and developing relevant competences
- Establishing dynamic production, independent of batch size, by means of One-Piece-Flow system
- Upgrading polyvalence of production staff and setting up the automatic control
Benefits:
- Reasonable implementation of various methodologies: 8D, FMEA, Poka YOKE, 5 WHYs, ISHIKAWA, SMTP, VSM
- High competitiveness of the company also in small batch production
- Higher productivity / improved efficiency
- Better quality and lower quality assurance costs
- Flexible and dynamic development teams => efficient development and Technological preparation of production
- Lower purchase costs
- Improved co-operation with suppliers and implementation of a Supply Chain System
- Systematic control over sales markets and target costumers
Business functions include:
- Sales / marketing
- Development
- Production
- Purchasing
- Logistics
- Maintenance
- Human resources
- General management
- Financing and Controlling