I have never seen a customer pay for a time study. Time studies are waste in general but they offer insight into work content of a process and waste content. Eliminate or reduce the waste. Walking to get a part or a tool. Waiting for something to occur. Overproduction.
You will have little impact on the company unless upper management wants to change how it runs its business. Inventory and WIP especially is a symptom of the process to make your product. If you use shop orders to make a bunch of parts at a time you will have the inventory caused by the...
If you run into some canned software please post it for me.
My company is going lean and monitoring various aspects of manufacturing is important. the problem with using Excel is that it is not multi user friendly and to look up a problem requires manual intervention and having access to the...
