https://www.allaboutlean.com/when-to-use-a-milk-run/ Organize your Industry! Mon, 01 Jan 2024 06:49:20 +0000 hourly 1 https://www.allaboutlean.com/when-to-use-a-milk-run/#comment-139445 Tue, 20 Jun 2023 14:34:21 +0000 https://www.allaboutlean.com/?p=30507#comment-139445 Hi Serge, definitely. I have seen such pallet carts in a milk run train quite frequently. But you do need some tools to move it in and out of the cart, e.g. a small forklift or similar.

]]> https://www.allaboutlean.com/when-to-use-a-milk-run/#comment-136426 Mon, 15 May 2023 08:42:51 +0000 https://www.allaboutlean.com/?p=30507#comment-136426 Hi Christopher,
thank you very much for this article. well explained and very valuable.
I would like to add that is quite easy to handle heavy part (less than 500kg) in a Milk run flow. In our company we used to provide pallets (with a tugger train) with pallet on wheel equipment. this solution avoid to have wide corridor needed for forklift or stapler. This solution allows us to transport pallet with a maximum weight of 500kg included in a milk run flow. for sure, this solution is valuable when the consumption is more than several times a day.
A second comment in your article is about the frequency, this is a trigger point to implement milk run. Our rule for milk run is fixed schedule, variable quantity and we mix the kind of parts to be transported (small and medium). For the large parts (less than 500kg), we have a specific milk run.

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