"It's About Time"

The Competitive Advantage
of Quick Response Manufacturing (QRM)

A strategy for Low-Volume and Custom Engineered Products

A powerful continuous improvement strategy for organizations interested in an alternative to inventory for meeting customer and market demands.

Presented by Dr. Rajan Suri, this full-day workshop will show you how Quick Response Manufacturing (QRM) will differentiate you from your competition.

You will see the "bottom line" impact:

Quick Response Manufacturing (QRM) is a companywide strategy for lead time reduction throughout the enterprise. Using QRM, companies have reduced their lead times by 80-90%. As a result, these companies have not only seen large increases in market share, but also experienced significant cost reduction and quality improvement.

Register for this one-day workshop to learn the four core concepts of QRM strategy:

1. The Power of Time

   Lead time has a much greater impact on your entire operation than most managers realize. It has a huge impact on total operating cost, quality, profitability, and long-term success.

2. Organizational Structure

   Restructure your organization to minimize lead time throughout the enterprise.

3. System Dynamics

   Interactions between machines, people and products impact your lead times. Capacity planning policies (machine and labor utilization and lot sizing policies) need to be rethought for QRM.

4. Enterprise-Wide Approach

   QRM is not just a shop floor approach. It includes material planning and control, purchasing and supply chain management, office operations such as estimating and order processing, and new product development.

Don't miss this full day workshop led by Dr. Rajan Suri, author of "Quick Response Manufacturing: A Companywide Approach to Reducing Lead Times," and his new book, "It's About Time: the Competitive Advantage of Quick Response Manufacturing."

Instructor Profile

Rajan Suri is Emeritus Professor of Industrial Engineering at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He received his Bachelors degree from Cambridge University (England) in 1974, and his M.S. and Ph.D. from Harvard University. Professor Suri is founding director of the Center for Quick Response Manufacturing (QRM), a consortium of companies working with the University on understanding and implementing QRM strategies. He is internationally regarded as an expert on the analysis of manufacturing systems, specializing in Lead Time Reduction. Dr. Suri combines his academic credentials with considerable practical experience. Dr. Suri has consulted for leading firms including Alcoa, Danfoss, IBM, John Deere, National Oilwell Varco, Pratt & Whitney, Rockwell Automation and TREK Bicycle. Consulting assignments in Europe and the Far East, along with projects for the World Bank, have given him an international perspective on manufacturing competitiveness. Dr. Suri has received awards from the American Automatic Control Council, The Institute of Management Sciences, and the IEEE. In 1999, Suri was made a Fellow of the Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME), and in 2006 he received SME's Albert M. Sargent Progress Award for the creation and implementation of the Quick Response Manufacturing philosophy. In 2010, Rajan was one of only 10 people to be inducted into the Industry Week 2010 Manufacturing Hall of Fame, which recognizes individuals who embody the best of U.S. manufacturing. Visit Rajan's Web site.

QRM Workshop Fee Also Includes:

• Dr. Suri's book, "It's About Time: the Competitive Advantage of Quick Response Manufacturing"
• Workbook
• Continental Breakfast
• Refreshments
• Lunch