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STRAIGHTLINESnowboards, Wakeboards, Kneeboards and Tow Lines Fearon Brown Monte Christensen Fred Holubik 1. Background Company History . Founded 1986 as manufacturer of tow lines for water sports Late 1980’s branched out into distribution of branded water recreational products Began manufacturing wake and knee boards in 1993 1994 limited production of snow boards 1995 full production of snow boards Diminishing role of distribution of branded products 2. Manufacturing PRODUCTION FLOW Batch shop 75 unit lot size Nov. - March production for water sports Jan. - Sept. production for snow Oct. - Feb. cross over production - new design marketing, special orders 11 of 14 manufacturing steps are generic to snow or water boards Rope production - year-round as needed low volume, assembly 3. Planning High Quality and Innovation Research Development Cross-functional teams Design by experimentation Industry standards Custom laboratory Competitor review Planning Seasonality - year round manufacturing New product every 6 months Non-manufactured orders once a year Order Fulfillment Made to order Pre-season / In-season Weekly work chart Push quality on suppliers 4. Quality SPC Team oriented Process oriented SPC Procedures Parado charts Push SPC down to suppliers Computer generated defect reports Results measured daily Strive for only 10% defects was 35% Team Oriented Daily meeting with leads about problems Feedback taken from workers Teams get incentive pay for quality Each team the key to quality SL has actual capacity for roughly 60,000 boards with theoretical capacity of roughly 100,000 boards. Ideal situation would be level loaded year round production to meet firm orders. Distribution of production is 80% snow and 20% water. Snow board production January through September for August through December delivery. Water board production November through March for February though June delivery. Overlap in production possible, 11 of 14 steps are generic to either water o