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CASE STUDY
Nissan Company
Nissan Motor Company, Ltd, shortened to Nissan, is a Japanese multinational automaker. Head quartered in Japan, founded 1932. It formerly marketed vehicles under the "Datsun" brand name and is one of the largest car manufacturers –revenue appx $90 billion USD (2007) and Employees 190,000 (2008). Nissan continues its quest to optimize product development and deliver highly innovative technology. Today, in various countries and regions around the world they enjoy a reputation for creating truly innovative vehicles and service programs. With facilities around the world, the Qashqai, Micra, Micra C+C and Note are produced by Nissan Motor Manufacturing (UK) Ltd in Sunderland, Tyne & Wear.
Order winners - order winners are the characteristics of the product that wins the business over their competitors , in case of Nissan the order winners are High quality, low cost , lower product introduction time etc.
Order qualifiers - Order qualifiers are the characteristics of a product which are necesanec for a product to even considered by customer or to be able to get at least up to your competitors. In this case these are meeting diversified customer needs, product availability on time etc.
2. The primary role of operations in product design is to confirm designers that this product can be Manufactured and assemnled in shop or not.During product design process cross functional team including departments like design, testing, vendor development, materials, manufacturing and operations , quality come together and work on a product giving their specialized feedback and based on these feedback the product is iterated. For e.g. if there are any changes in the product which are needed to be done for the suitability of current assembly line , operations department will give feedback as done in DFMA ( design for manufacturing and assembly) , if it is found that product can not be altered then manufacturing/ assembly line will be altered during product development process. Prototyping of a product in the initial stages of design is done with operations team and tested further business testing departments.
3. In case of demand fluctuations and uncertainty the issues with the production and operations can be managed by varying working hours, halting production,manufacturing assembly line speed reduction, varying the size of work force,using part time staff, sub contracting works and some times sending employees for trainings etc.
4. Effect of shifting from batch processing to assembly line on different functions -
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