Investigation Of Operation Problems In Heraeus ShinEtsu Quartz (China) Inc Base On Lean Production

Complain is often be heard about serious competition, picky customers, low price, short lead time, small lot size, and companies are suffering. Actually all this complains are just show the environment which corporations are facing. Large variety of products in small batch sizes, lower and lower price, shorter and shorter lead time, all of these will become the trend of market. Survival of the fittest. Corporations have to try their best to satisfy customers. Riding the fence or complain can’t help, companies want to win the competition and get significant progress, they must focus on management and look for the right way for their companies.Lean Production (LP) originally generated from Japan Toyota Motor Corporation in fifties of20century. Its theory has formed by western country, and start to be used widely in the middle of eighties. LP combines the virtue of mass-production and single-production to realize the excellent quality with low cost at Large variety of products in small batch sizes system. It is an advanced production system, which no need heavy investment and make company rapidly reaches the world class. As Low-profit Time is coming, LP has become a powerful tool to win the competition.Management theory is different from theorem of natural science which is applicable to worldwide. It must be matching with economy and humanity atmosphere of a country. The thesis analyzed the problems out of operation processes based on LP theory. Content Include:inventory management, the balance between production and sales, mixture of products, gross margin distributing, rework and efficiency problems. The aim of the thesis is to find a proper way to manage the company through the study of these problems.The thesis is started from the progress of LP study internally and externally, LP theory, LP instrument and tools, etc. Then integrate the LP theory into Heraeus ShinEtsu Quartz (China) Inc management experience, and find out the proposal and action:form lean organization, improve performance evaluation system, improve production on site management, get rid of waste, form pull production system and realize product JIT, etc. Finally evaluate and summarize the improvement result, sum up useful method and apply them into company management system.