7ENT1128: Comprehensively understand LM techniques and TPS and their applications to various contexts including service sectors: Lean Manufacturing & Services Assignment, UOH, UK

This assignment assesses the following module, Learning Outcomes (from Definitive Module Document):

LO1 Comprehensively understand LM techniques and TPS and their applications to various contexts including service sectors.
LO2  Compare and contrast models and techniques.
LO3   Justify & evaluate manufacturing processes applying Lean Manufacturing Techniques & TOC

Assignment Brief

Prepare a technical report on lean production principles, practices, and strategies in the Company X supply chain.

This case study is about a Bicycle manufacturing company named Company X. Company x was owned by a very traditional family that applied only classical business methods. The main products are standard single and multi-speed bicycles, welded and assembled in Charlotte, NC, with components coming from Company X component manufacturing plants in Detroit, MI, Juarez, Mexico, and Shanghai, China, and other suppliers located in Taiwan and Japan. Company X produces about 220,000 bikes per year and has annual sales of $44 Million to various customers, including Walmart, Sears, and K-Mart. They supply bikes from three regional warehouses in Charlotte, NC, El Paso, TX, and Detroit, MI

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