The Product Wheel Handbook: Creating Balanced Flow in High-Mix Process Operations

ISBN-13: 9781138409439 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018

Peter L. King

Opis

This title describes the product wheel design process, a proven technique for dealing with all of the issues related to multiple product situations. It walks the reader through a logical, detailed, step by step, process for designing and implementing the PW technique.

Spis treści

Introduction: Why Product Wheels? Process Industry Challenges; Product Wheel Basics; The Problem: Production Sequencing, Campaign Sizing, Production Leveling; The Solution-Product Wheels; The Product Wheel Design and Implementation Process; Step 1: Begin with an Up-to-Date, Reasonably Accurate VSM; Step 2: Decide Where to Use Wheels to Schedule Production; Step 3: Analyze Products for a Make-to-Order Strategy; Step 4: Determine the Optimum Sequence; Step 5: Analyze the Factors Influencing Overall Wheel Time; Step 6: Put It All Together-Determine Overall Wheel Time and Wheel Frequency for Each Product; Step 7: Arranging Products-Balancing the Wheel; Step 8: Plotting the Wheel Cycles; Step 9: Calculate Inventory Requirements; Step 10: Review with Stakeholders; Step 11: Assign Responsibility for Allocating PIT Time; Step 12: Revise the Scheduling Process; Step 13: Develop an Implementation Plan; Step 14: Develop a Contingency Plan; Step 15: Get All Inventories in Balance; Step 16: Confirm Wheel Performance-Put an Auditing Process in Place; Step 17: Put a Plan in Place to Rebalance the Wheel Periodically; Case Studies and Examples

O autorze

Peter L. King Lean Dynamics LLC, Newark, Delaware, USA, Jennifer S. King