By Kenneth N McKay
Targeting discrete half production with batches, operations, and routings, this consultant indicates how you can determine restricting components for more advantageous construction keep watch over and bump creation keep watch over up a notch. McKay (University of Waterloo) and Wiers (VCS consulting) supply their suggestion on organizing the paintings day, identifying and buying software program, hiring and coaching a brand new planner, acting the MRP method of means research, facing uncertainty, and dealing with bottlenecks.
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Can you do it almost every time? You have to be able to build the suitable quality consistently. Almost going hand-in-hand with consistency in quality is consistency in execution. The system has to have low variability in processing times, setups, and yield. If you 18 Practical Production Control expect a hundred pieces in two hours, it better be close to that every time. Not eighty pieces in four hours this time and 120 pieces in three hours next time. Once you are consistent on both quality and execution, you can start the next phase of lean: organized elimination of waste and the improvement in efficiency and effectiveness.
This is just plain wrong as job shops have dynamic routes, resource conflicts, and queues that will build up. However, this does not prevent people from stating that as an objective, charting it, or rating performance by it. The scope of production control needs to be stated clearly within the organization. The scope needs to address the types of troubles production control is expected to mitigate and the authority it has to implement countermeasures. Sounds like a military campaign? Sounds like war?
It will be hard to get people to stand up and accept responsibility. Why these two charts were not widely adopted and embraced by management is not clear, but we have our suspicions. SUMMARY There are numerous production control concepts used in running factories and there are many different information systems. , hierarchical and focused factory), flow shops, and job shops. There are also the various information systems used by the production control department. For each of these topics, there are many things we have left unsaid and you are directed to many of the fine books available.