The Planning master-For industrial engineer
This site is all about planning in an organization. Material planning, production planning, KPI and lean
Material balancing is a great system to find “material leaks” where money goes to the drain whiteout anyone noticing it. It is similar to inventory counts that we do in warehouses but in this case we do not only count inventory but also the amount of inventory in WIP and we search for material leakages. This is a very easy to make system that help us save a lot of money.
Sometimes the best way to improve the production is to look at the differences between what materials we planned to use ver. what we actually used. It supposes to be the same, but if you have more then 1 material that you can use as a substitute then probably your planned and actual cost per batch are not the same in some cases. That allows you to find places to do a major improvement. This post is not easy but very important.
Starting production with the right parameters with low scrap and almost no time consumption is important for production efficiency.
RFT=right first time
RFT is a challenging task for most production organizations that produces many products/parts.
Using SPC is a good way to solve problems regarding RFT.
How can we find the parameter that we can improve, out of hundreds of products and dozens of parameters that each product has in its spec?
Reducing cycle time is a very important advantage we can get in the market.
In order for us to reduce the cycle time, we got to understand what are the elements that the cycle time is made off.
In this post, we explore the way we can create a cycle time breakdown. We can then take every element and improve it.
Processes can be improved. First we need to map The activities to see which gives value and which not (NVA). In the following post we will start with example and on the next posts i will add the know how methodology
To better reflect reality in a capacity model we allow more than one tool for each product. We need to use Balancing algorithm to make sure we balance the loading on each tool to reflect the actual capacity constrains
