Managing Production Ramp-Up in Manufacturing Networks

Production and manufacturing companies today, in a bid to achieve time to market and time to volume, makes use of production ramp-up. To achieve effective and rapid returns in investing in newly manufactured products it is necessary to maintain appropriate cost and volume as well as considerable manufacturing quality. This research is aimed at how to achieve cost effectiveness and market potentials, accomplished due to early market domination, by implementing ramp-up production process in manufacturing industries. Through production performance, speedy time to market and time to volume could be achieved if there is an effective collaboration between production development performance and production ramp-up. This relationship promotes a fast achievement of time-to-volume compared with the silent leading hypothesis of time-to-market. The study shows that the level of learning is very important as well as the sources of learning like engineering time, experiments as well as normal experience. Supply chain capabilities are used to promote and encourage meaningful growth and development so as to achieve time to market and time to volume. These supply chain capabilities are integrating customers and manufacturers as well as supply and demand in the market.