The Product Wheel Handbook
eBook - PDF

The Product Wheel Handbook

Creating Balanced Flow in High-Mix Process Operations

  1. 219 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

The Product Wheel Handbook

Creating Balanced Flow in High-Mix Process Operations

About this book

The Product Wheel (PW) design process has practical methods for finding the optimum sequence, minimizing changeover costs, and freeing up useful capacity. So much so, that the DuPont Company and Exxon Mobil are just a few companies that have used the product wheel concept to achieve and sustain a competitive advantage.Breaking down a fairly comple

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Information

Publisher
Productivity Press
Year
2018
eBook ISBN
9781466554191
Edition
1
Topic
Business
Subtopic
Operations
Index
Business

Table of contents

  1. Front Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Acknowledgments
  4. Introduction
  5. About the Authors
  6. Chapter 1 - The Problem: Production Sequencing, Campaign Sizing, Production Leveling
  7. Chapter 2 - The Solution—Product Wheels
  8. Chapter 3 - The Product Wheel Design and Implementation Process
  9. Chapter 4 - Step 1: Begin with an Up-to-Date, Reasonably Accurate VSM
  10. Chapter 5 - Step 2: Decide Where to Use Wheels to Schedule Production
  11. Chapter 6 - Step 3: Analyze Products for a Make-to-Order Strategy
  12. Chapter 7 - Step 4: Determine the Optimum Sequence
  13. Chapter 8 - Step 5: Analyze the Factors Influencing Overall Wheel Time
  14. Chapter 9 - Step 6: Put It All Together—Determine Overall Wheel Time and Wheel Frequency for Each Product
  15. Chapter 10 - Step 7: Arranging Products—Balancing the Wheel
  16. Chapter 11 - Step 8: Plotting the Wheel Cycles
  17. Chapter 12 - Step 9: Calculate Inventory Requirements
  18. Chapter 13 - Step 10: Review with Stakeholders
  19. Chapter 14 - Step 11: Assign Responsibility for Allocating PIT Time
  20. Chapter 15 - Step 12: Revise the Scheduling Process
  21. Chapter 16 - Step 13: Develop an Implementation Plan
  22. Chapter 17 - Step 14: Develop a Contingency Plan
  23. Chapter 18 - Step 15: Get All Inventories in Balance
  24. Chapter 19 - Step 16: Confirm Wheel Performance—Put an Auditing Process in Place
  25. Chapter 20 - Step 17: Put a Plan in Place to Rebalance the Wheel Periodically
  26. Chapter 21 - Prerequisites for Product Wheels
  27. Chapter 22 - Product Wheels and the Path to Pull
  28. Chapter 23 - Unintended Consequences—Inappropriate Use of Metrics
  29. Chapter 24 - Cultural Transformation and Product Wheel Design—The Synergy
  30. Chapter 25 - Case Studies and Examples
  31. Bibliography
  32. Appendix A: Cycle Stock Concepts and Calculations
  33. Appendix B: Safety Stock Concepts and Calculations
  34. Appendix C: Total Productive Maintenance
  35. Appendix D: The SMED Changeover Improvement Process
  36. Appendix E: Bottleneck Identification, Improvement, and Management
  37. Appendix F: Group Technology and Cellular Flow
  38. Back Cover