Defining a strategy of make to availability to a white goods Make to Stock company

Abstract

This paper approaches the methodology of Quick Response Manufacturing (QRM) which aims to reduce the lead time of operations, the object of study herein will be a white goods company. Through the Manufacturing Critical-path Time graph (MCT), the stock of finished products was identified as the focus stage of lead time reduction, therefore it is presented a proposal to adopt a production strategy for availability (make to availability - MTA) to replace the current Make to Stock (MTS) strategy. The goal is to reduce the production lead time, reducing the time-consuming costs of these products in inventory, and resulting in an expected reduction of approximately 50% in the current MCT.