Bill,
This seems like you are going in the right direction. Next step would be further dividing the current batch size by 2 and improve processes to overcome the problems that arise there after. If you keep on this process as a continuous improvement process, you can achieve a very near true...
Hi,
I lead a manufacturing line where most of the operations are hand assembly of electronic boards (big enough components to manage with hand assembly).
The throughput from a line/station is greatly dependent on operator efficiency and how operators perceive the workload. They work fast when...
SPF concept can be misleading at times. If you try to implement it right away, you will fail most likely.
What I would suggest is that you should set single piece flow as an ideal and start working by reducing your batch size by half every time untill all your processes becomes tightly coupled...
Thanks TygerDwag and PSE. Since I do not have product family groupings right now, my first step will be to form those. I was trying to work around it for long to aviod the PFA (production flow analysis) due to the huge variety of boards, but now is the time to immerse into it completely.
Thansk...
Can someone please guide me for a high variety and demand mix environment, where cycles times are varying up to 200% with different product variants, how should one go ahead about balancing the lines? Do you take peak cycle times at the stations or consider an average or try to take a mode...
