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Maintaining product quality (for instance in the auto component industry) is a major concern - most of the companies are contractually bound for 25 PPM (parts per million) level rejection norms.
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Logistics is another area of concern for them; most of them are on 'Just In Time' supply
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Major quality initiatives undertaken are TQM, Lean Manufacturing, Malcolm Baldridge, Six Sigma and ISO/QS 9000.
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While the above quality initiatives would concentrate on building business processes that would benefit its customers, MC3 would focus on the following:
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The implementation of MC3 will help the manufacturing and auto component industry with the following critical points:
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Knowledge about prospects and customers - their products, products pipeline, their suppliers
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Competitive intelligence
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Customer required standards (that of GM, Ford, Telco, etc. in the auto industry)
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International standards and their evolution to achieve one world standard
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Product development methodology governed by QS 9000 for automotives
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Internal knowledge transfer between engineering, operations, product dev and other departments
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Business planning, capacity planning, production planning and target setting
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Organisational and Employee skill inventory mapping
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Learning and training requirements identification and execution
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Environmental issues
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Suppliers data management and Inventory management
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Factory act requirements
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Knowledge about forecasting demand from automobile manufacturers
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New ideas to improve quality to reduce rejection, rework and wastage
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Joint research and development with the automobile manufacturers through collaboration
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