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
Pull systems often use simple visual signals to request production from an upstream operation. Pull is one of the fundamental principles of lean manufacturing. It is used in make-to-order environments where a “takt time” or drumbeat is established that forms the required production rate.
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