Manufacturing Part Quality
Manufacturing Part Quality (MPQ) is the measure of how many product will fail during final assembly and first year of use at the customer caused by the manufacturing and assembly processes used to create the product. manufacturing Risk Mitigation consultancy gives a quantitative insight in the to be expected failures of the product. The failure rate is derived from the Value Stream Map where for each part and process the failure rate, test slip and rework is being used.
Manufacturing & Lead Time
Manufacturing time is a measure of how many hours are spend in manufacturing to produce the product. This is mainly used for calculating later on for the product cost and carbon footprint. Out of this the manufacturing lead time can be derived using the Value Stream Map. The Lead time shows the longest path in time and gives insight where to start improving the processes or even the design.
Manufacturing Cost
Manufacturing cost is the result of the parts and processes. This is either a should cost mostly representing an ideal situation or a more realistic cost where also the failure rates, test slip and rework are taken into account for the processes used. With using a Value Stream Map method all steps are visible but more importantly the largest contributors are made visible. This can be either a big frame or a lot of small contributions with a high frequency leading to a large cost. Reducing cost starts with visibility and can lead to a new architecture, a different design, a supply chain improvement or …
Carbon Footprint
Carbon footprint is the amount of CO2 (eq) a product has generated until it leaves the factory. Also here the Value Stream map method enables the contributions of the failure rates, test slip and rework to be taken into account which will lead to a higher carbon footprint than the most used methods which only calculates the ideal situation. The insight created with the Value stream Map is made visible in the list of largest contributors.