Assignment
Chapter-5 has one basic theme throughout "The traditional decision making process for managing a manufacturing company is an outdated, slow, and reactive process"
Describe these poor practices and describe the style of management that should be implemented, which would conform to WCM principles.
Chapter-6 Questions:
1) What was the end result of the IBM design team's use of Boothroyd-Dewhurst DFMA principles, when they applied them to their LaserPrinter?
2) In the process industry, most of the so-called continuous processors really aren't, due to a wide mix of products, grades and order sizes. How did Milliken's new Blacksburg, Virginia chemical plant design allow it to act like a pure mass producer?
Chapter-7 Questions
1) The term "trade loading or channel stuffing", as a practice is used in the Quaker Oats example. What does it mean and what would you recommend to avoid this practice?
2) Of the three ways of bringing crossed strategies into alignment, which one seems to be the most potent, and why?
Reading :
Chapter 5 - Economy of Multiples
Chapter 6 - Responsibility Centers
Chapter 7 - Quality: Zeroing In