Rajan suri biography channel

Professor Suri's primary interest is improving the competitiveness of manufacturing companies. He is the founder of Quick Response Manufacturing (QRM), a company-wide approach to lead time reduction. QRM involves reducing the time to introduce new products to market, as well as the time to manufacture and deliver existing products.

QRM has provided significant competitive advantage for manufacturing companies, both large and small, in many different industries.

Rajan suri biography channel

Professor Suri founded the Center for Quick Response Manufacturing, a joint venture between the university and a number of manufacturing firms, and served as its director from 1993 to 2007.

A second area of his research is new strategies for material control in manufacturing systems.

Lean manufacturing strategies, along with Kanban and flow methods, do not work well in systems with low-volume, high-variability, or custom-engineered products. Dr. Suri has developed a new material control strategy called POLCA, which is better