Study On Achieving Production Outputs For Manufacturing Start-Up Company
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Date
2015
Authors
Santanasamy, Mickal Dass
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Universiti Sains Malaysia
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Production ramp up is very much challenging for Start-up Company like Memory Storage Technology (MST). Production team has been given daily production output goal to meet every quarter by top management. The goal is, by end of first quarter to produce 100K units per day and by end of 2nd quarter to achieve 600K units per day. Finally, by year end 2015 to produce maximum 1Million units per day. However the actual performance in first quarter is 50K units per day and only managed to achieve 100K units in the middle of 2nd quarter. This case study looks into the issues encounter in this newly Start-up Company in order to meet daily production output. The study begins with understanding the existing workflow. Current issues such as lack of skill & knowledge, less headcount, employee turnover, poor employees training and system errors were discussed in details. To further understand the potential root causes of those issues, a comprehensive analysis is performed using Interview, Fish bone, Pareto, Benchmarking and 5Why analysis tools. The objective for this case study is to find out the possible solutions to achieved daily production output. Recommendation listed in the end of the case study.
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Production