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Continuous Improvement of Products and Processes - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Analysis on how features and quality are impacting the organization's and competitors market shares can provide updated information on the product's market qualifiers and market winners.
      - Incremental product improvement typically require planning and control at a higher level than just manufacturing planning and control- production and inventory professionals may be vital contributors to these changes.
        
        Manufacturing contributes production expertise- changes that would allow reduction in setup times or the number of setups; number of parts, waste/ scrap; easier component integration; reducing inventory by delaying product differentiation in some way.
        
        Customers or marketing team can indicate how product changes might affect customer requirements and expectation.
        
        R&D may weight feasibility of proposed changes apart from proposing new ones.
        
        Logistics and supply chain management professionals might evaluate weather a product change could maintain or reduce lead times, distribution costs and so on,
  - - - 1) Determine the process to be improved- based on observation or on the results of tools such as Pareto or root cause analysis.
        
        2) Gather and compile the data on the as-is state- may include a flowchart or value stream map of the process; determining the inputs, outputs, routing and boundaries of the process; lists of the components used; and information on suppliers, customers and environmental factors.
        
        3) Analyze the data and produce a to-be state- may involve developing one or more alternatives by breaking problems down into smaller chunks, searching for root causes, and calculating potential results such as for throughput, investment, and operating expense
        
        4) Select the best method among alternatives- involves finding and proposing the methods, i.e improvements, that minimizes waste, simplifies tasks, combines operations when feasible, finds a more efficient sequence, or performs some tasks in parallel rather than sequentially.
        
        5) Implement- Revise policies, procedures, and other documents as needed to ensure that the new method becomes standard practice.
        
        6) Sustain the new method- involves monitoring and controlling the operation and correcting workarounds or use of old methods.