Comments on: How to Pace Your Assembly Line https://www.allaboutlean.com/how-to-pace-your-assembly-line/ Organize your Industry! Wed, 24 Jan 2024 10:23:03 +0000 hourly 1 By: Christoph Roser https://www.allaboutlean.com/how-to-pace-your-assembly-line/#comment-168698 Wed, 24 Jan 2024 10:23:03 +0000 https://www.allaboutlean.com/?p=32140#comment-168698 Hello Leo, for very long cycle times (8 hours), I feel it would be easier to just move them all at the same time once. Otherwise you need a lot of equipment that has to adapt for moving for an extremely slow moving process (6 meter in 8 hours?). There may be other reasons, I have to think about this more. Good Question! I have a bit more in my post How to Pace Your Assembly Line.

]]> By: Leo Hamminger https://www.allaboutlean.com/how-to-pace-your-assembly-line/#comment-162257 Tue, 23 Jan 2024 16:22:17 +0000 https://www.allaboutlean.com/?p=32140#comment-162257 Regarding my (1) question, I found this in your post of April 11, 2017: “German machine tool maker Trumpf uses a pulsed line with a cycle time of around 8 hours for its machine tool assembly”.

It would be interesting to know when a pulsed line is preferable over a continuously line (and vice versa).

]]> By: Leo Hamminger https://www.allaboutlean.com/how-to-pace-your-assembly-line/#comment-161881 Sat, 20 Jan 2024 19:16:24 +0000 https://www.allaboutlean.com/?p=32140#comment-161881 Hello Chris,
great post, as usual.
I have studied in detail your two previous posts on Trumpf Synchro. There you say that Trumpf implemented a one piece flow production system, with a comparably low inventory reach (for machine tool builders) of one to two days.
I have two questions:
(1) I don’t seem to find any reference to a pulsed line in your Trumpf posts, have I overlooked it, or, is it implied elsewhere in the text?
(2) We assume a pulsed line is preferable in the case of Trumpf. Is this because of a much higher inventory reach (compared to Toyota) or because of different types of production processes? To mind comes more product variants in case of Trumpf.

Thanks a lot in advance for your thoughts on this.

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