Can you explain about "MATERIAL REVIEW BOARD" (MRB)?

Jim Wynne

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Re: Can you explain about "MATERIAL REVIEW BOARD"?

From 1980 on, my MRB (Material Review Board) was always cross-functional, so it had the experience, knowledge, and power to make decisions on the spot (high efficiency - no delays in making decisions about N/C on incoming or outgoing material.)
From 1980 on?
 
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somashekar

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Sir,
Please can you explain me what is meaning of material board and what document should cover. Plesae help me i will be great full to you.
Thank you
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Hi Venkatesan.
Material is MONEY. Money locked up as materials which if not realized as your finished product which sells and gets money back, it becomes a dead investment, and occupies your valuable space too.
Typically you can have materials locked up as Defectives, Non moving, Obsolete, expired, etc etc ...
MRB is the top level team which has executive powers to take decisions on suitably liquidating these materials so as to reduce the blocked money and space. They take inputs from technical and regulatory in case of a possible use with concession, Purchase with regard to supplier issues, inputs from marketing or planning about non-moving materials, with regulatory and customs etc in case there are legal issues about material disposition, and jointly execute the disposition activity periodically. MRB reviews periodically and as a good practice the decisions are minuted and closely followed up for its execution.
 
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Was the second part of your question on what document would cover the MRB?

It is probably controlled by your quality manual, or BMS process flow.

One area that is missing from my current employer is the MRB's obligation to document and retrain operators on acceptable criteria.

We can deem the same defect as acceptable every day for a month, without communicating to the person tagging the part what truly makes the part conforming or nonconforming. Because of this, the MRB team, which has significantly higher salaries, takes time to disposition a part, when the call could easily be made by the operator.

Another benefit to MRB is, when a part is "iffy" and we want to ship, no single manager will be held responsible if the part is rejected by the customer. If one person had to make the call, they'd probably always play it completely safe.
 
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