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Inspection Process Flow Development For A Warehouse, Pahalawaththage Perera
Inspection Process Flow Development For A Warehouse, Pahalawaththage Perera
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The project is based on a medical device outsourcing company in the US. In 2018 the company added a 44,000 sq ft new warehouse. With the scales of growth and market competition, it has come to a need to optimize production capacity to achieve 98% monthly on time delivery target. Optimizing production capacity comes with efficiently managing operations that impact overall product lead time. A primary factor that impacts the overall product lead time is production preparation time. Production preparation time is impacted by lead times of 3 operations managed by the new warehouse - Receiving Inspection, Incoming Inspection, and …
Lean Implementation Through Process Automation, Olusola Onadipe Jr.
Lean Implementation Through Process Automation, Olusola Onadipe Jr.
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As lean manufacturing is increasingly becoming a common practice today in an effort to keep companies competitive, new and innovative processes are becoming the norm. Part of that innovation includes the development of automated machinery that can help alleviate some struggles with lead times and reduce overall labor. It is all in keeping with the trend of building products cheaper and faster to gain that edge. Company X has been focusing their efforts on lean manufacturing for years now. This paper covers an important project that involves the implementation of a complex mechanical system in an effort to build products …
Process Improvement By Lean Thinking In Trucking Industry, Abhiram Reddy Ramasahayam
Process Improvement By Lean Thinking In Trucking Industry, Abhiram Reddy Ramasahayam
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Manufacturing industries with complex production systems are struggling with designing optimal process to increase throughput. Companies will require high amount of labor and process improvement resources to sustain growth and delivery quality products to its customers. A chain of value added activities when designed and deployed with help of lean based methodologies can create high efficiency process. In this paper we have studies and implemented value added process based on the lean manufacturing methodologies which was adapted on the shop floor.
In many traditional truck body production industries have facing many problems like low production rate, big lead times, material …