One-piece flow vs. batching : a guide to understanding how continuous flow maximizes productivity and customer value /: a guide to understanding how continuous flow maximizes productivity and customer value. (2015)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Charles Protzman, Joe McNamara, Dan Protzman.
• Authors: Protzman, Charles; McNamara, Joe; Protzman, Dan
• Contents: The Silent Productivity Killer; The Initial Source of Inspiration; What Is Batching?; A Brief Example of Batch vs. Flow; Timeout 1; ; Who Batches … and What’s the Big Deal If It’s "Me?" ; We All Batch; ; Types of Batching; Process Definition; Time Out 2; Batching Systems; The CrossFit Story; ; I’m Going to Need a Few More Examples; ; Let’s Get into This a Little Deeper, Shall We?; A Very Detailed Comparison of Batching to One-Piece Flow; So, What Problems Are Created by Our Batching Example Listed Above?; When Do We Get Our First Pen?; What Is Flow?; How Does Batch Compare to One-Piece Flow?; So, What Differences Do We See between Batching and One-Piece Flow?; Station-Balanced Line; When Do We Get Our First Pen?; So Which System Is More Efficient?; Batching Model; How Do You Improve a Batch System?; What Impact Does Size Have?; What Impact Does This Smaller Lot Size Have?; Other Ideas?; Timeout 3; ; The Eight Root Causes of Batching; How the Batch Process Occurs: Like It or Not; Sometimes We Have to Batch—Or Do We?; Timeout 4; Wow, You’re Right; ; The Eight Root Causes of Batching Continued; Equipment; Processes; Idle Time; Space; Timeout 5; Why We Batch and Why It Hurts Our Company; Timeout 6; Batchards?; ; What Problems Come with the Batching Paradox? ; The One-Piece Flow Paradox; ; Light Shined on the Hidden Costs of Batching; Batching Is Bad!; Timeout 7; Timeout 8; Wherever There Is Excess Inventory, a Problem Is; Lurking; Are You Working on What You Really Need?; Timeout 9; Errors and Defects; When One Is Bad They Are All Bad; Batching Means Lost Opportunities; ; Which Came First, Batching or the Eight Wastes?; Batching Is the Root Cause of the Eight Wastes; Little’s Law; The Easy Way Out; ; Debunking the Myths; Batching Myths; Myth: Batching Is Quicker than One-Piece Flow; The One Time When Batching Is Actually Faster than; One-Piece Flow; Myth: One-Piece Flow Will Make Us Robots!; Myth: Centralizing Is Better; Batching Is a Hard Habit to Break; Timeout 10; "Batching Habit Story"; ; Batching vs. One-Piece Flow; Batching in Factories or Offices; Prebuilding and Outsourcing Are Forms of Batching!; Batching (Like One-Piece Flow) Is a System; How Do You Sustain One-Piece Flow?; Will People Pay More for One-Piece Flow?; Engineering Changes in a Batch System; The Human Factor of Why We Batch; One-Piece/Person Flow; Batch vs. Flow Example; One-Piece Flow vs. Small Lot; Parallel Processing vs. Batching; Parallel Processing; Another Example of Parallel Processing; Timeout 11; The Gray Area between Batch and Flow: Group; Technology; True Mixed-Model Sequencing; Timeout 12; Timeout 13; One-Piece Flow Exercise; What Is Bumping?; Under the Rocks; Batching vs. Flow: What’s in It for You to Abandon the Batching Paradigm?; ; Are You Ready for One-Piece Flow?; Are You Ready for One-Piece Flow? A Case Study; Transitioning to a Flow-based Culture; Why Change?; Timeout 14; Summary; One-Piece Flow Consulting; ; Appendix; ; Index
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: New York : Productivity Press
• Publication Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 658.515; Industrial efficiency; Industrial efficiency -- Case studies; Production planning; Production planning -- Case studies; Production scheduling; Production scheduling -- Case studies
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781498726955
• Related ISBNs: 9781498726948
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