Flow creation and management - Continuous flow

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Guidelines of continuous flow:

1. Produce to your tak time
2. Develop continuous flow wherever possible
3. Use pull systems (supermarkets) when continuous flow is not possible
4. Try to send the customer schedule to only one production process
5. Distribute the production of different products equally over time at the pacemaker process
6. Create initual pull
7. Develop ability to make...

Takt time (guideline 1)

Net working time per day / customer demand rate per day

5 steps spaghetti diagram

1. Process info
2. Person product flow diagram
3. Investigation
4. Distance travelled
5. VA time
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Continuous flow (guideline 2)

Running smaller quantities with uninterrupted flow between value-adding operations:
- Balance the flow between operations - Improve process capability
- Balance capacity & availability





What does Heijunka (Production Leveling) mean?





Heijunka is the Japanese name for production leveling, a scheduling technique for repetitive multiproduct production.
Instead of trying to stick to varying demand or run long production serires, leveling seeks periodic demand patterns for scheduling repetitive small production runs

Pull systems (supermarkets) when continuous flow is not possible (guideline 3)

Producing only as demanded for use, or to replace what was taken for use. Is a method for controlling production between flows.
In material control, the withdrawal of inventory as demanded by the using operations. Material is not issued until a signal comes from the user.

Value stream layout (by product)

1. Limited WIP stock
2. No Overproduction
3. Bettercommunication 4. Flexible
5. Single-piece flow

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