Riordan Manufacturing
Riordan Manufacturing must discover new ways to increase their production of electric fans. Currently, Riordan Manufacturing is an industry leader in the field of plastic injection molding, with facilities in San Jose, California, Albany, Georgia, Pontiac, Michigan, and China. A Fortune 1000 company, Riordan has positioned itself for success in the plastics market, yet is still looking for opportunities to improve their products and increase their profit margins. The present paper discusses the proposal package for Riordan which handles each step of electric fans from inception to production. It includes the material requirement planning phase of fans being manufactured at the China Plant. There is further analysis of existing process for the production of the Riordan electric fans. It provides the basic outline for designing the new process to remove the bottleneck in the process to optimize it for meeting the demands of customer by supply-chain concepts. Production forecast for the Riordan electric fans is discussed along with implementation plan of Lean Production using Gantt Charts. Finally, the cover letter describes the coordination of aggregate operations planning and suggested TQM process to define the strategic objective of the company. The gantt chart, sometimes referred to as a bar chart, showing both the amount of time involved and the sequence in which activities can be performed.
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