How to Implement QRM

Excerpts from

It's About Time (IAT) pp. 170-172 and

Quick Response Manufacturing (QRM) pp.108-116, 498-507

Step One: Get Top Management Commitment

STEP 1 (IAT): Highlight the Power of Time for Your Organization

Step One: Begin with a market opportunity or threat

Step Two: Find a product family that will make a splash

Step Three: Stepwise quantitative approach to find candidate families

Step Four: Choose a self-contained family

STEP 2 (IAT): Create the Right Organizational Structure

STEP 3 (IAT): Understand and Exploit System Dynamics

Step Five: Create the Physical Cell

Step Six: Education on Manufacturing System Dynamics

Step Seven: Call for Volunteers

STEP 4 (IAT): Build Your Enterprise-Wide, Unified Strategy

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