Form Lean manufacturing Pull Production 
ATS
MARCH 5, 2024
Share One of the tenets of lean manufacturing is that goods should flow like water through production. That flow is smoothed by determining the takt time and configuring manufacturing to achieve it. This blog explains takt time in manufacturing.
ATS
AUGUST 2, 2024
Kanban is one of the most important tools in Lean manufacturing. By controlling production, it imposes a “pull” system that highlights bottlenecks and drives out waste. It’s also very visual, letting supervisors and workers quickly see the current status of manufacturing orders. What is a kanban system?
ATS
MAY 28, 2024
In many cases material travels as a batch, with the batch size determined by some form of economic batch quantity formula. A characteristic of batch production is that the batch can’t move on to the next operation until all units have been processed through the preceding step. This also tends to mean longer manufacturing lead times.
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