Production System designed by Sakichi Toyoda‚ lean manufacturing centers around placing small stockpiles of inventory in strategic locations around the assembly line‚ instead of in centralized warehouses. These small stockpiles are known as kanban‚ and the use of the kanban significantly lowers waste and enhances productivity on the factory floor. In addition to eliminating waste‚ lean manufacturing seeks to provide optimum quality by building in a method whereby each part is examined immediately after
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Chapter 12 Q1-18 not 2.6.12 pg496 1. Raw Material inventory‚ work in process inventory‚ maintenance/repair/operating supply (MRO) inventory‚ and finished goods inventory 3. Better forecasting‚ physical control‚ supplier reliability can result from appropriate inventory management policies abc guides development of those policies‚ idea is to establish policies that focuses resources on few critical inventory parts and not the many trivial ones222 4. Holding costs‚ ordering costs‚ setup costs
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production strategy that strives to improve a business’ return on investment by reducing in-process inventory and associated carrying costs. To meet JIT objectives‚ the process relies on signals or Kanban between different points‚ which are involved in the process‚ which tell production when to make the next part. Kanban are usually ’tickets’ but can be simple visual signals‚ such as the presence or absence of a part on a shelf. Implemented correctly‚ JIT focuses on continuous improvement and can improve a
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Caso: La Nichols Company 1. Independientemente de las limitaciones del centro de máquinas‚ prepare un programa de planeación de requerimientos de materiales y también los perfiles de la capacidad para los cuatro centros de máquinas. Joe Williams es el presidente de la Nichols company‚ que fabrica tres productos primarios y cuenta con más de 355 empleados. La empresa ha tenido algunos problemas con su cadena de suministro en los últimos meses y‚ por lo tanto‚ se ha visto afectado el servicio
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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The philosophy of just-in-time (JIT) originated in Japan 50 years ago at Toyota Motor Co. The goal is to create a production environment driven by demand that holds only a small amount of inventory and products at any given time. Organizations in the manufacturing‚ service and public sectors are implementing a wide variety of innovative managerial tools and JIT philosophy to help them deal with the highly competitive‚ customer-driven environments in which they must operate. External
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* Value Analysis is a step by step approach to identify the function of a product‚ process‚ system or service; * To establish a monetary value for that function and then provide the desired function at an overall minimum cost without affecting any of the existing parameters like Quality‚ Maintainability‚ Productivity‚ Safely and other performance characteristics. Importance * Value analysis helps the employees to better understand their jobs. * Value analysis reduces the cost of the
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0 An Application of Lean Six Sigma To Improve The Assembly Operations At A Wireless Mobile Manufacturing Company David Woo‚ Holly Wong A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Bachelor of Applied Science in Industrial Engineering Supervisor: Viliam Makis Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering University of Toronto March 2007 Abstract This thesis project is the focus of our final year MIE496Y1Y thesis course. The purpose of the
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Table of Contents Introduction For this week’s case we take a look at the difficulties the company Desko is facing with its order process. Desko is an American company which produces office furniture. Desko does not only produce its products but also delivers them to their American and Canadian customers. After having received cancellations from a major customer Desko decided to further analyze its order process in order to improve this. We will draw a map of its order process and
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Name of the presentation (Edit in Foo 2 What is involved? A Kaizen Blitz consists of the same key components as lean implementation: Standard hour and cycle time analysis Value stream mapping Root cause analysis Process and flow analysis Kanban implementation Single piece flow Layout analysis 5S implementation Name of the presentation (Edit in Foo 3 The Kaizen Blitz Process Every Blitz is unique‚ but the key steps are: Build a team that is focused and trained in the key lean elements
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Picking accuracy http://www.warehousecoach.com/images/A_simple_method_to_improve_picking_accuracy.pdf In this warehouse‚ they use a 2”x 3” piece of paper with a similar written message‚ and replaced the Employee Number with the packing person’s first name and photograph. In this warehouse the picker/packer is no longer an anonymous Number but becomes truly visible to the customer. The manger reported that the quality has increased so much‚ as measured by customer calls and returns as a percent
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