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Continuously Moving Assembly Line—Speed Limitations

Christoph Roser — Tue, 01 Aug 2023 11:00:26 +0000

Continuously moving assembly lines can move as slow as they need to, to fit the work on the length of the line. However, they cannot be as fast as you like. There are some limitations on the speed of the line due to the limitations of the walking speed of a human worker, and even ... Read more

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How Cheap Can You Make it?

Christoph Roser — Tue, 25 Dec 2018 11:00:18 +0000

I was on a quest, a quest to find the cheapest ballpoint pen possible. And what I found was amazing. Modern manufacturing has achieved stunning productivity, where even a complex product like a ballpoint pen can be produced at costs that were unbelievable only a few decades ago. While everybody can make a pen, the ... Read more

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What Is Your Production Capacity?

Christoph Roser — Tue, 24 Nov 2015 11:00:26 +0000

Your production capacity is one important aspect of your production system. The capacity has to match your demand. If your demand is higher than your capacity, then you will not be able to supply the customer. On the other hand, if your capacity is higher than the demand, then you will have lots of idle ... Read more

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Cycle Times for Manual Processes

Christoph Roser — Tue, 20 Oct 2015 11:00:05 +0000

In my last two posts I described how to measure cycle times. However, for manual processes measuring cycle times is quite different, since the humans that are measured usually strongly dislike being measured. Therefore, it is difficult to measure it directly. There is an alternative to calculate it, but this also has lots of pitfalls. ... Read more

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How to Measure Cycle Times – Part 2

Christoph Roser — Tue, 13 Oct 2015 11:00:15 +0000

This is the second post on how to measure the cycle time of a process. Again, the cycle time is the fastest repeatable time in which you can produce one part. Hence, as part of a series on manufacturing speed measurements I continue with more details on what cycle times really are. This is the ... Read more

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How to Measure Cycle Times – Part 1

Christoph Roser — Tue, 06 Oct 2015 11:00:29 +0000

The cycle time of a process is a key to match the supply with the demand in lean manufacturing. Everybody working on a shop floor knows the term. Yet, I still find that people sometimes confuse what exactly it means. The cycle time is the fastest repeatable time in which you can produce one part. ... Read more

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Pitfalls of Takt Times

Christoph Roser — Tue, 29 Sep 2015 11:00:50 +0000

The customer takt (or takt time) is one of the fundamentals for determining the speed of a production system. After my post on How to determine Takt Times, this second post on takt times gives a bit of history, and then goes into more details about possible pitfalls and problems when calculating the customer takt. ... Read more

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How to determine Takt Times

Christoph Roser — Tue, 22 Sep 2015 11:00:38 +0000

The customer takt (or takt time) is one of the fundamentals for determining the speed of a production system. It represents the available time divided by the average demand of the customer during that time. Effectively this is the average time between the order of one item. Whenever you design a new production system or ... Read more

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