Lean manufacturing is a production method aimed primarily at reducing times within the production system as well as response times from suppliers and to customers. It is closely related to another concept called
Takt timeis the average time between the start of production of one unit and the start of production of the next unit, when these production starts are set to match the rate of customer demand. If a customer wants 10 units per week, then, given a 40-hour work week and steady flow thr...
What components might we need to assemble or what process do we go through before we can consider that Standard Work Instructions for the Manufacturing Process have been completed? Basically, we need the following ingredients in terms of deliverables and process to create them: 1. Observe the wor...
Lean manufacturing? Is that the same as forced reduction, like the kind of diet you don’t want to start? It was unknown, unfamiliar, different. Where did we begin? Some of the people I worked with were really scared. Many of them had worked there for a long time and many of us ...
There are many benefits to Takt Time. The simplicity of the concept belies its extraordinary effects.Takt Time can be used in Service as well as in Manufacturing. Among these are: Production Stability-by limiting overproduction, it stabilizes the system and prevents buildups of inventory and the...
2Takt time, one-piece flow, cellular manufacturing, SMED, team work 3Kaizen, pull system, standard work, kanban, visual displays and controls 4TPM, JIT, supplier integration 5Jidoka, poka yoke, problem-solving 6Heijunka JIT, Just-in-time;SMED, single minute exchange of die;TPM, total produc...
Lean manufacturing is a generic process management philosophy derived mostly from the Toyota Production System (TPS)
Purpose – A lean manufacturing metric called Takt time is used as a benchmark evaluation measure to evaluate service quality at fast food restaurants. The metric is applied to find the relative efficiency between three fast food restaurants belonging to different chains. The purpose of this paper...
(Work) Cell- A (work) cell is a manufacturing or service unit consisting of several workstations and the materials transport mechanisms and storage buffers that interconnect them. A work cell is a resource group, where resources are grouped to run a process flow. The work cell represent...
Standardized Work is documented procedures for manufacturing that capture best practices (including the time to complete each task). It must be “living” documentation that is easy to change. Takt Time Takt Time is the pace of production (e.g., manufacturing one piece every 34 seconds) that ...