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A 10 page paper outlining the manufacturing process for snowboards. Though the manufacturing process of snowboards is rather straightforward, there are many opportunities in the process to affect quality, either positively or negatively. The type of material specified in the original design will dictate much of the manufacturing process. Nearly all snowboards are made of wood core construction today, but other materials may come to be much more common in the future. Depending on the nature of those materials, processes may change dramatically in the future. Bibliography lists 14 sources.
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File: CC6_KSmfgSnowboards.rtf
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but sometimes they are not, either. Though it is logical that a manufacturing process should progress from Point A to Point B to Point C and beyond, such is
not always the case. In the case of manufacturing snowboards, there is at least one operation in which there is significant waiting time involved for the traditional wood core
board. Most manufacturing processes strive to be as "lean" as possible so that manufacturing organizations are not tying up space and capital with
various works in progress. This is possible to achieve in snowboard manufacturing of course, but the process still requires that sufficient materials be on hand to supply the equivalent
of two shifts. As is the case with all other manufacturing, the focus of the activities is to produce the greatest number of
units that the companys management believes it can sell, without creating a surplus of inventory that may or may not sell well. On the other hand, neither do these
companies want to exhaust supply before demand has diminished. Materials Sourcing and Receiving The process of manufacturing a snowboard begins with design.
Product designers must envision the final product and generally will make a prototype of the product planned for future production. Not all manufacturers in all industries use the prototype
step today, but it is a traditional part of design and generally has widespread use. Once design is set and design engineers have
determined the materials that will be used in the manufacturing process, it becomes necessary to find appropriate suppliers for each type of material. In a large company, a buyer
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