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Quick Response Manufacturing

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Manufacturing method, where the aim is to reduce the lead-time in every step of the manufacturing process. The method evolved from Time Based Competition concepts, originally developed in the late 1980s.

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References

Rajan Suri: Quick Response Manufacturing: A Companywide Approach to Reducing Lead Times, Productivity Press, 1998, ISBN 1563272016
David M. Upton: Plant Capabilities for Quick Response Manufacturing, Harvard Business School, 1994