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World-class materiel flexibility: one plant's victory over materiel-related downtime
1Motorola Automotive and Industrial Electronics Group, Northbrook, IL, USA.
Hospital Materiel Management Quarterly
|April 7, 1997
Abstract:
It is not uncommon for the materiel managers in a manufacturing company to be blamed for downtime and the consequent failure to meet production targets. To avoid downtime, materiel managers need to look at their role in solving materiel-related downtime and to address the problems that cause downtime in the same way they would address other process quality problems.