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Improving Flow Through Production Leveling And Scheduling: Achieving Flexible And Smoothed Production
Learn how to prepare production plans, master production schedules, and final assembly schedules that meet customer demand, yet minimize production disruptions and changes in production capacity by using production leveling and scheduling techniques to hold the frequency and size of changes in production schedules to a minimum.
Written by a successful business improvement practitioner this no fluff e–book
Understand the various leveling and scheduling approaches focused on customer needs in order to achieve an even level of high productivity throughout the factory, with low costs and Just-In-Time scheduling.
Learn the principles of the four most effective and widespread production leveling techniques used in different production settings.
For production leveling to be practical, three requirements, or conditions, must be met. The first requirement pertains to stable product demand, something that a company might or might not be able to control. The other two are things a company can and must shorten setups and match production with demand.
The process of Mixed-Model Production (MMP) explained in details with images and examples – Heijunka, batch sizing, the MMP schedule, requirements and advantages of MMP.
Learn the methodologies for smoothing production schedules under each of the three manufacturing philosophies – make-to-stock, make-to-order, and assemble-to-order supported by pictures and real examples. Understand how to minimize scheduling problems in the worst case for production scheduling - when the number of products is large and the demand for each is low or one of a kind (scheduling in a push system example included).
These eleven concepts form a set which enable most plants having any sort of repetitive production, and many with less regular flows, to implement a successful Lean scheduling system in a value stream.
Learn how to achieve smooth, level production that minimizes uncertainty, reduces costs, improves capacity utilization, and yields better product quality and customer service. Scroll up and grab your copy now.
Written by a successful business improvement practitioner this no fluff e–book
Understand the various leveling and scheduling approaches focused on customer needs in order to achieve an even level of high productivity throughout the factory, with low costs and Just-In-Time scheduling.
Learn the principles of the four most effective and widespread production leveling techniques used in different production settings.
For production leveling to be practical, three requirements, or conditions, must be met. The first requirement pertains to stable product demand, something that a company might or might not be able to control. The other two are things a company can and must shorten setups and match production with demand.
The process of Mixed-Model Production (MMP) explained in details with images and examples – Heijunka, batch sizing, the MMP schedule, requirements and advantages of MMP.
Learn the methodologies for smoothing production schedules under each of the three manufacturing philosophies – make-to-stock, make-to-order, and assemble-to-order supported by pictures and real examples. Understand how to minimize scheduling problems in the worst case for production scheduling - when the number of products is large and the demand for each is low or one of a kind (scheduling in a push system example included).
These eleven concepts form a set which enable most plants having any sort of repetitive production, and many with less regular flows, to implement a successful Lean scheduling system in a value stream.
Learn how to achieve smooth, level production that minimizes uncertainty, reduces costs, improves capacity utilization, and yields better product quality and customer service. Scroll up and grab your copy now.
70 pages, Kindle Edition
First published May 12, 2015
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