Perspective of Practical Application of Quick Response Manufacturing

Abstract

In today's world, with its serious demands, every enterprise, in order to be competitive, without ceasing, must improve the production technologies and improve its efficiency. Traditional campaigns aimed at cost reduction, are focused on reducing downtime of resources rather than on reducing the real time of execution of order including internal and external operations of the organization. In an effort to improve their competitiveness, companies pay attention to well-known production concepts, which allow to increase the efficiency of the enterprise. One of those can be attributed to the concept of responsive production. The paper is devoted to the study of the main features of the Quick Response Manufacturing (QRM) concept, which provides for increasing the efficiency of enterprises' operation. Application of QRM technology provides the most significant results for single and small-scale production, focused directly on meeting the needs of the end user. The organization of production on the basis of the principles of quick response manufacturing, differences and similarities between the quick response manufacturing and lean is considered. The key problems of the introduction of quick response manufacturing and possible solutions are described, the evolution of production concepts is indicated. A model of uninterrupted production is proposed, for which it is necessary to carefully consider the processes, provide quality resources and time, assign a deadline for each process and motivate people responsible for its implementation.