What does QRM stand for?

Quick Response Manufacturing (QRM) enables organizations to meet customer demand quickly, permitting businesses to continually evaluate and react to competitive pressures.

More than 50 sessions arc grouped in four tracks with topics including: * Lean Manufacturing--tooling, Six Sigma, value stream mapping and analysis, lean supply chain, flexible manufacturing systems, and Kaizen * Machining & Tooling--near net processes, abrasive machining and polishing, high-speed machining, hole making, modular and reconfigurable machines, lean tooling, hard machining, multi-tasking, and plant floor controls * Manufacturing Strategies supply chain management, sustainable manufacturing, competing in the world market, product lifecycle management, and quick response manufacturing * Technologies That Could Change the Way You Manufacture Keynote speaker at the conference is Harry Dodd, manager of advanced machining technology at the Caterpillar Technical Center.

New ideas, including process reengineering, total quality management (TQM), quick response manufacturing, just-in-time, theory of constraints, lean manufacturing and so on, broke into management's consciousness throughout industrial America.

Miller SQA is using SynQuest Synchronized Manufacturing software as a key element of its Quick Response Manufacturing (QRM) initiative for the planning, scheduling and execution of the company's order fulfillment process.