The Age of Agile Manufacturing is rapidly approaching, and for some it's already here. Agile manufacturing promises much, and with lead times shrinking, rapid machine changeovers, JIT inventory policies, and the seamless flow of information taking place between vendors, manufacturers, and customers - the world of Agility delivers much. Products now reach the marketplace faster, productivity is rising, and flexibility is the applied rule for all manufacturing operations. Quality Resource Planning shows how to integrate a Quality Management System with other management information systems contained in the Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) model. The ERP model, with its focus on Agility, demands that a quality management system be designed to meet the needs of the rapid response environment. With Quality Resource Planning (QRP), learn how to use routine business events, like a purchasing receipt, to generate a quality control work requirements listing. With QRP learn how a shop order completion starts an automated release mechanism that includes, sample record creation, test instrument evaluations, test result updating, quality cost updating, and inventory valuation updating. With QRP learn how to graphically display both current, and future work loads in quality control and testing work centers. With QRP learn how to elevate the status of your quality management system so that everyone, from senior management to the newest of employees, will make use of its components on a daily basis.
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With Quality Resource Planning Mr. Blazejak has rendered a system of integration that takes Quality Management Systems (QMS) to their rightful place within any Enterprise. He shows how the main elements of any QMS are placed within the framework of an Manufacturing Resource Planning (MRPII), or Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) model. Indeed, without this integrated approach, and without a well defined Quality Management System, the MRPII/ERP models are nothing but incomplete shells.
Quality, and its corresponding system, within any organization must be a highly prized and valuable part of the operating structure. Mr. Blazejak has shown how to integrate the QMS function so that anyone in the organization can use its information for continuous improvement, quality cost improvements, productivity increases, and increased work flows. He shows, through extensive use of flow charts, data flow models, practical examples, and an uncomplicated writing style how to accomplish the integration and automation aspects.
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