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79How to Create a Value Stream Map - Mapping your value stream - VSM Symbols
How do you go about mapping your value stream and how do you create a value stream map (VSM)? This article will inform you as to what value stream mapping symbols to use, how to structure your VSM, and how to get the most from your value stream map. Value stream mapping is a tool to help you define a current state map of your product and information flows and then through identifying and eliminating waste create a future state map.
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82Just In Time - JIT - Manufacturing
Just in Time (JIT) Manufacturing is one of the main principles of lean manufacturing, it is the idea of producing what the customer wants when the customer wants it without it being delayed or held up in inventory. JIT Systems help to remove excessive inventory from your production processes freeing up space, cash and improving productivity and other just in time benefits.
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74Hire a Lean manufacturing Consultant
You need to hire a lean manufacturing consultant if you are going to embark on a journey to implement lean manufacturing to improve the performance of your business processes. Hiring a lean manufacturing consultant is a big investment, this article gives advice on getting the most from your business investment.
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77Jidoka and Autonomation
Jidoka is one of the principles behind the Toyota Production System (TPS), Autonomation or Jidoka is about having machines with “human” intelligence so that they stop when something is wrong. Autonomation and Jidoka are one of the least understood principles of lean manufacturing by us in the west.
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87Lean Manufacturing: SMED and JIT production
Companies are always searching for ways to reduce waste in the manufacturing process. Lean Manufacturing is one of the most common strategies used to reduce waste and improve the overall process. Single Minute Exchange of Die (SMED) and Just in Time...
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88TIMWOOD 7 Seven Wastes
The 7 wastes can be remembered by asking yourself; who is Tim wood? TIMWOOD; Transport, Inventory, Motion, Waiting, Overproduction, Over-processing, and Defects.The seven wastes are those activities within your company that do not add value and cost you money. Surprisingly we usually only spend around 5% of our time doing something that adds value.
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83Kanban Calculation; Calculating your JIT Bin Quantities
If you wish to use Kanban to pull production through your Just in Time (JIT) process as part of your lean manufacturing initiative then you need to understand how to calculate your Kanban quantities. There are several different factors you need to consider when calculating your Kanban quantities from your daily demand, your production lead times, container (bin) sizes and of course the all encompassing safety factor.
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79Kanban Cards; Kanban System Types; Bins, Card, E-Ban, Faxban, CONWIP
There are many different types of Kanban systems; Kanban cards, Faxbans, E-bans, CONWIP, 2 bin systems, 3 bin systems, multiple bin systems, and as many hybrid system types and variations as the human imagination can create. Kanban exists to help to pull production at the rate of Customer demand reducing the build up of excessive inventory.
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81SMED; Shigeo Shingo's Single Minute Exchange of Die
Shigeo Shingo’s Single Minute Exchange of Die or SMED is the technique within lean manufacturing and Just in Time to reduce the setup or changeover times for your process, as the name suggests the aim is to literally reduce your setups to be in single minutes. Reducing set up times through SMED enables smaller batches to be run as well as gaining greater efficiency from your machines.
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75Kanban - Manufacturing Pull system - Bin Systems and CONWIP
Kanban is a sign, flag, or signal within the manufacturing production process to trigger the production and supply of product as part of Just in Time in Lean manufacturing. Kanban or Kamban is the main method by which production pull is achieved using Kanban systems such as the 2, 3 or Multi bin systems or CONWIP to name just a few possible types of Kanban systems that you could use in your manufacturing systems.
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