Production Flow Analysis
With production analysis, you will eliminate production waste to improve delivery performance while increasing productivity, inventory turns, and profit.
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Delivery is everyone's responsibility.
World-class delivery performance begins with a strong sales and operations plan and requires a seamless synchronization of engineering, customer service, purchasing, inventory control, and manufacturing. All of these functions essentially feed the core process of production scheduling with the goal of delivering to customers what they need, when they need it.
Expect the Unexpected
Minimize the impact of production variability with real-time scheduling tools that allow schedulers to predict and prevent lateness.
Enable Smart Manufacturing
Smart manufacturing allows factory managers to automatically collect and analyze data to make faster, more informed decisions and to optimize production.
Production flow and process design
Manufacturing has quickly changed from making a lot of the same items to making unique goods that need to be delivered fast. In the past, work orders were quickly “pushed” onto the floor causing bottlenecks, increased WIP, extended lead times, material shortages, and often chaos to the shop floor.
We have helped hundreds of companies reduce this chaos through well-designed production flow systems that pace manufacturing to true demand. By working on the right parts at the right time and not introducing work that is not needed, we have seen throughput improve by 30-40%, material shortages decrease and WIP levels rapidly fall.
Our Continuous Improvement Specialists repeatedly find that manufacturers today require the tools that will enable them to make fast, reliable predictions about capability. These techniques also help to establish processes that allow for quick response to customer demand. Manufacturing companies that leverage all the available systems and tools as well as continuous improvement techniques enjoy the following benefits:
- Pull-systems in place
- Constraints/bottlenecks are subordinated and managed
- Achieve rapid inventory turns while maintaining lower WIP
- Effective problem solving in place to achieve zero defects
- Minimal lot sizes or one-piece flow benefits are understood and in practice
- Lead times are zero for make-to-stock items and minimized for make to order items
- Clean, organized facility with “status at a glance” visual controls
- Trained, flexible, and empowered workforce
Scheduling that connects people, process and products.
Scheduling tools are an essential part of integrated planning and remain a powerful component in achieving world-class delivery performance. The most important outcome of a scheduling system is a reliable prediction of what will happen and when it will happen.
When scheduling systems are fully optimized, this prediction and subsequent execution (how it will happen) is what enables manufacturing companies to properly size resources, manage inventory, establish lead times, and provide customer delivery commitments with confidence.
World class delivery performance.
Increase Throughput & Profit
Shop floor productivity gains of 25% – 55%.
Reduce WIP & Inventory
Lead time reductions of 20% – 60% .
Increase Cash Flow & Available Space.
WIP reductions of 40% – 70% and inventory reductions of 30% – 60%.
Happy Customers, More Business
On-time delivery gains of 20% – 45%.
Decrease Production Costs
Cost of quality reductions of 20% – 60%.
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Production Scheduling
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Production Control Workshop
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