Running Head: Milestone Two 3
Milestone Two:
Manufacturing Requirements
The production process of Pop In bottle liner will require a manufacturing requirement that is suitable to meet the safety standard for the demands of the customer and that would adapt the same production in the capacity of the company. The main reason is to consider the new product while continuously doing the same production phases but it will require another adaptation. The new product will be produced through the step by step operations that the other common company products are currently processing. The elastic material will introduce a thicker layer in the current production process alongside existing products that are being manufactured to be able not to delay the client’s orders of the existing product. The tools for this production are the same with the PBM plastics bottle liner and the main reason of this thick elastic layer is to expand bottle liner into the whole volume of the battle, to avoid crumpled bottom so it will not break easily, easy to store breast milk safely, and when the client wants to warm it up they can able to put into the hot water. With the uninterrupted production process ensure the use of elastic material is in the same designed method so the production cost will minimize. Furthermore, the production of the new product will be handled into a small group that can easily learn and capably make it.
Inventory Management
To be able to succeed the continuous production of Bottle In bottle liner is to deal with upstream supplier connections, have sufficient inventory and downstream of customer needs. In the six-week nonstop production it is required to point out the flow of new material in the supply chain for the new product development and to maintain the exact demands, supply and high-quality goods. So, the company will be able to meet this goal by using a sharing information strategy for the best flow of the supply chain. The best effective method for inventory management is ABC analysis since we use different materials while producing the same product item as well as reducing the lead time to create avsailable raw materials for the development of the Pop In. It determined the materials that had a big impact on the whole inventory cost. Since the company will use a new product it will help to forecast the demand of the material according to categories of the product and avoid the delay of supplies. This approach improves the lack of stock in the inventory and track service level of the customer.
Capacity Planning
Capacity planning is the key boost to define the production capacity of the company needed to ensure the product demands will meet and distribute the amount of resources needed. Capacity will be capable of helping the production to create demand strategy of the new product of bottle liner. The best strategic plan is a dynamic plan that would benefit the overall causes. Company needs to include the machines, spaces, resources, staff and required skills. It must determine the time and amount of investment especially in the selected resources. So, the company can determine the volume of production using the resources that are being used now. Moreover, they can maximize the product if production capacity is suitable and must equal the demand of forecast.
Assume that the company can make 500 new products of bottle liners in a regular work which is 5 days that take 60 mins in each product in 10hrs a day of work. Then, we have to reduce the 60 mins break in lunch and another two 15 mins breaks.
For total of 3 machines.
The overall capacity (hours) =
Process Flow Chart
The figure 1 below is a process guide of development of new product which is suitable for any bottle feed of newborn babies.
Figure 1.
This flowchart shows the manufacturing of Pop In product.
Reference
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