tailieunhanh - Lean Manufacturing in Furniture and Supplying Industries

We envision a computer program that could offer effective critique to help indi- vidual students learn designing. However, our understanding of design critiquing as yet is too spotty or incomplete to realize this vision. Therefore, as a step in this direction we aim to develop a systematic framework to account for the decisions that a critic makes. We built the Furniture Design Critic system to develop a computational model of design critiquing. The program provides a framework in which we can describe and explain how a critic might work, specifically, how a critic might select particular critiquing methods based on a variety of conditions | Volume 3 Issue 2 October 2003 Inside this Issue Lean Manufacturing J in Furniture and Supplying Industries An Introduction to Lean Production and Cellular Manufacturing Franklin Corporation s Double-D Cell for Assembling Hardware Airline Manufacturing Installs State-of-the Art Rough Mill New Publications Published by The Furniture Research Unit Department of Forest Products Forest Wildlife Research Center Mississippi State University Contact Liam Leightley 4444 lleightley@ Helping furniture manufacturers achieve and sustain international recognition and competitive advantage through nationally recognized research technical assistance and educational programs. Lean Manufacturing in Furniture and Supplying Industries Strategies for Increased International Competitiveness Is your company lean It can be with the help of MSU s Institute of Furniture Manufacturing and Management. Faculty in the Institute have been looking in depth at lean processes and how they can be implemented in Mississippi furniture and supplying companies. A series of studies that relate specifically to the development and use of lean manufacturing techniques in furniture and wood component supplying industries have been initiated and will be published in an FWRC Research Bulletin Series. This issue of highlights will look at Franklin Corporation s implementation of lean manufacturing and adoption of the Double D manufacturing cell. Lean processes are designed to produce superior quality products at a low cost while increasing the competitiveness of manufacturers using the concepts. Although lean processes were first developed by the Toyota Motor Company in Japan to reduce inventory levels and add manufacturing flexibility while increasing productivity the concept has not been applied widely to furniture manufacturing. Lean manufacturing is truly the manufacturing system of the future and companies today need to be more productive than the competition at providing customers .