himanshu goel

Stores management Introduction After efficient purchasing, receipt and inspection of materials, the next important step in materials control system is the storage of materials. The purchased materials are to be stored in stores/warehouse and issued for production as and when they are required. Store keeping aims at safeguarding the materials from all kinds of loss and damage and ensuring smooth and continuous flow of materials into the production activity. Meaning of stores management Dictionary defines stores as a building where goods are kept. Stores are defined as supply of goods and storage is defined as the act of storing the goods. Some people use the term storekeeping which has the same meaning as storage. Storekeeping is the process of storing raw materials or goods under the supervision of a person called storekeeper or store controller. The raw materials are called “stores” and the finished goods are called “stock”. The place where these materials are stored is called “...

Quality assurance Introduction The quality is a joint effort of an organization. Everyone, directly or indirectly involved in the production plays a particular role in quality. Therefore, it is important for a production system to ensure that the procedure or techniques used for producing the quality product are effective and are followed carefully and dutifully. This process of ensuring the techniques is performed by the quality assurance. Quality assurance It is also defined as collection of all the planned and systematic actions. These actions are required to provide the confidence that the product will satisfy all the requirements. Concept of the quality assurance is equally important to both the consumers. Definition According to ANSI/ASQC “Quality assurance are all those planned and systematic actions necessary to provide confidence that a product or service will satisfy given need.” Management actions for assurance of quality Quality assurance is a considered as the ...

Work study Introduction It is a collection of techniques required to perform the organized analysis of all the factors that affect the efficiency and effectiveness of methods being used. The main objectives of work study are to improve the productivity and quality of a product economically. Work study was known as “time and motion study” previously. The two techniques involved in a work study are method study and work measurement. Method study is the process of determining the most effective method of performing a job, logical layout o manufacturing facilities, smooth movement of workmen and materials in the plant and the right placement of inspection to ensure that processing of job is on time and at an economical cost. In similar way, work measurement is the process of determining the time required by the workmen to complete a specific work at a specified time. Work study It is defined as a management service based on those techniques, particularly method study and work measu...

Purchasing management Introduction Its purpose is to ensure continuity of supply of raw materials, subcontracted items and spare parts and at the same time reduction in ultimate cost of finished goods. Subcontracted items are those items which are produced by other manufacturing and purchased by the company and the previous contract exist. Meaning of purchasing management Purchasing is the process of obtaining the materials, tools and supplies that are required for the manufacturing of a product. About 50 to 60 % of total expenditure of a production organization comprises – of raw materials, components and services. Therefore, the purchasing should be done in such a manner so that the total saving of a company increases. Purchase department handles all the activities related to the purchasing of items for an organization. Definitions According to Alford and Beaty “ purchasing is the procuring the materials, supplies, machine tools, and services required for the equipment, main...

Material management Introduction Material management is a function, which aims or integrated approach towards the management of materials in an industrial undertaking. Its main objects are cost reduction and efficient handling of materials at all stages and in all sections of the undertaking. Meaning of Materials management It is concerned with providing materials for production purposes with minimum total cost in an integrated manner for better functioning of an organization. Thus, we can say that materials are the most important resources for any company since no goods can be produced without them. Material management controls the procurement, storage, amount, movement and consumption of materials that can be used by a company for production process. It covers various aspects of materials and supplies the necessary materials when required for converting them into finished products. Definitions According to Bethel “Material management is a term used to connote controlling th...

Production planning and control Introduction PPC forms the two important components of the management process. Planning includes the consideration of all input variables so that the predetermined output goals can be achieved. On the other hand, control means to take a remedial action to prevent the variation of actual output from the desired one. Production planning It is concerned with the planning of various inputs ( men, machine, materials, etc) for a given period of time so that the customer could get the right quality of products at right place, price and in time. Production planning may be done as: Long term planning: Strategic planning-normally more than one year. Medium term: Aggregate planning- upto a year’s time. Short term: Routine planning- monthly or weekly. Production control However, the process of production control is a complementary activity to the production planning. It measures the actual performance of the production units and taking remedial action ca...

Production planning and control in shop floor Job production It involves manufacture of products to meet specific customer requirement of special orders. The quantity involved in usually small. Example of job production are manufacture of large turbo generators, boilers, stream engines, processing equipments, material handling equipments, ship building etc. Under job production, we may have three types accordingly to the regularity of manufacture namely:  A small no of products produced only once.  A small no of products produced intermittently when, the need arises.  A small no of products produced periodically at known intervals of time. When the order is to executed only once, there is either scope of improvement of production techniques by introducing intricate method studies, special tools or jigs and fixtures unless the technical requirement justifies it. But if the order is to be repeated, jigs and fixtures, tools as well as specially designed inspection gauges shou...