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Different Aspects of Seeing a Shop Floor—Data

Christoph Roser — Tue, 27 Feb 2024 11:00:25 +0000

In this series on how to understand a shop floor, I talked a lot about the physical shop floor—which in my view is the more important part. However, as mentioned in my last post, looking at already collected data also gives a lot of insight into the shop floor. Depending on the aspect you are ... Read more

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Different Aspects of Seeing a Shop Floor—Gemba vs. Data

Christoph Roser — Tue, 20 Feb 2024 11:00:26 +0000

In my last three posts I showed you how I look at shop floors, starting with some general guidance (FOCUS!) and going into detail through the different aspects of what I try to observe on the shop floor (5S, visual management, waste, unevenness, overburden, and safety). This usually gives me a reasonable overview of what ... Read more

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Different Aspects of Seeing a Shop Floor—Unevenness, Overburden, and Safety

Christoph Roser — Tue, 13 Feb 2024 11:00:19 +0000

This post continues my series on how I try to understand an unfamiliar shop floor. In the last post I talked about how to see visual management, 5S, and waste. These are usually easy to see. This post continues with unevenness, overburden, and safety, which are usually harder to observe. Unevenness Unevenness, or in Japanese ... Read more

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Different Aspects of Seeing a Shop Floor—Visual Management, 5S, and Waste

Christoph Roser — Tue, 06 Feb 2024 11:00:56 +0000

In my last post I looked at some general tips on how to see the shop floor. Most of them involve focusing on the right areas of the shop floor, and avoiding interesting but not relevant technical details. This post will discuss different aspects that can be observed. Here, too, try not to see everything ... Read more

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Different Aspects of Seeing a Shop Floor—Introduction

Christoph Roser — Tue, 30 Jan 2024 11:00:34 +0000

I am in the lucky position of seeing a lot of different shop floors through my work. This requires me to quickly understand what is going on on the shop floor and to estimate how well the shop floor is managed. What my hosts tell me and what I see unfortunately does not always match. ... Read more

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One Up One Down – Approach to Manage Manual Production Lines

Christoph Roser — Tue, 03 Dec 2019 11:00:14 +0000

Production lines have fluctuations. Sometimes production takes longer, sometimes shorter, than the average. This makes the line balancing tricky. Besides using a simple buffer between workstations, it is also possible to adjust capacity. Other approaches I have written about include the rabbit chase and the bucket brigade. Here I present a variation of the bucket ... Read more

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Toyota Standard Work – Part 3: Standard Work Layout

Christoph Roser — Tue, 03 Jul 2018 11:00:48 +0000

This post is the third in this series on how Toyota plans standard work. The first one was the production capacity sheet to define what capacity you have available. The second one was a standard work combination table to define when the operator is doing what. Finally, the third of the “famous three slips”, presented ... Read more

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Toyota Standard Work – Part 2: Standard Work Combination Table

Christoph Roser — Tue, 26 Jun 2018 11:00:45 +0000

Toyota has a nifty way to plan the work of an operator using their standard work charts. In my last post I explained the production capacity sheet to define what capacity you have available. In this post we will talk about the second of the “famous three slips”, the standard work combination table to define ... Read more

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