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.
ATS
MARCH 5, 2024
If goods are made faster than the customer wants them, the result is to build inventory, which is a form of waste in lean. When setting up a new production line: The cycle time of the bottleneck operation must be at least equal to the takt time. Unusually for lean manufacturing, “takt” is a German, rather than Japanese, word.
ATS
AUGUST 2, 2024
History and principles of kanban Kanban was developed as part of the Toyota Production System (TPS) when raw materials were in short supply throughout the years following World War II. The TPS uses just-in-time (JIT) production to minimize waste by having downstream departments “pull” production from upstream.
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