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Making Materials Flow: A Lean Material-Handling Guide for Operations, Production-Control, and Engineering Professionals

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Title: Making Materials Flow: A Lean Material-Handling Guide for Operations, Production-Control, and Engineering Professionals
Author: Chris Harris, Earl Wilson, Jim Womack, Rick Harris
ISBN: 0974182494 / 9780974182490
Format: Spiral Bound
Pages: 93
Publisher: Lean Enterprise Institute
Year: 2003
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Making Materials Flow describes in plain language another step in implementing a complete lean business system.

LEI's first workbook, Learning to See, focused on where to start — at the value stream for each product family within your facilities. After mapping has identified waste and potential applications of flow and pull, you can use the techniques in Creating Continuous Flow to implement truly continuous flow in cellularized operations. Making Materials Flow takes the next step by explaining how to supply purchased parts to the value stream in order to support continuous flow.

Companies are making progress in creating areas of continuous flow as more managers learn about value-stream mapping and continuous-flow cells," said co-author Rick Harris, who also co-authored the Creating Continuous Flow workbook. Both workbooks have received Shingo Research Prizes.

During visits to plants Harris has noticed an unsettling trend. "As I walk through facilities and examine earnest efforts to create continuous flow, I see how hard it is to sustain steady output. The problem often is the lack of a lean material-handling system for purchased parts to support continuous flow cells, small-batch processing, and traditional assembly lines."

Making Materials Flow explains in plain language how to create such a system by applying the relevant concepts and methods in a step-by-step progression. The workbook reveals the exercises, formulas, standards, and forms that a consultant would use to implement the system in your environment. And, like LEI's other workbooks, Making Materials Flow answers the key question managers often have about lean manufacturing tools and concepts, "What do I do on Monday morning to implement this?"

The key steps detailed in the workbook include :

* Developing the Plan For Every Part (PFEP). This basic database fosters accurate and controlled inventory reduction and is the foundation for the continuous improvement of a facility's material-handling system.

* Building the purchased-parts market. Learn the formulas and methods to size and operate a market that eliminates the waste of hoarding, searching for parts, and storing inventory throughout a facility.

* Designing delivery routes and the information management system. You get the principles and calculations that turn a sprawling, messy plant into an organized community where operators get the parts they need, when needed, and in the quantity needed, delivered right to their fingertips. Proper delivery routes not only improve inventory and flow but also safety and housekeeping. Pull signals help to integrate the new material-handling system with the information management system. Learn the steps to creating a system that keeps inventory under control by allowing operators to pull just what they need while focusing on producing value for customers. You'll also learn how to calculate the number of pull signals needed and how often to deliver material.

* Sustaining & Improving. Finally, you'll learn how to sustain and continuously improving the system by implementing periodic audits of the material-handling system across the chain of management, from route operator to plant manager. You'll learn the five-step process for introducing audits of the market, routes, and pull signals by a cross-functional team from production control, operations, and industrial engineering.

Foreword
Acknowledgment of Sponsor Support

Part I : The Plan For Every Part (PFEP)
Part II : Developing a Purchased-Parts Market
Part III : Designing the Delivery Route and the Information Management System
Part IV : Sustaining and Improving

Conclusion
Appendix
About the Authors
References

 
 
 
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