The traditional approach for regulating production, which is still in wide use, is that each process in a value stream gets a schedule. These schedules are based on predictions of what the downstream processes will...
It is a misconception, perhaps stemming from the pull system idea, that Toyota assembles vehicles in the same order in which customers buy them. Someday Toyota would like to have achieved that kind of 1x1...
Let us begin by looking at two processes: one without 1x1 flow and one with 1x1 flow. The assembly process depicted below has four workstations, and one operator at each one. There are small quantities...
Takt time is the rate of customer demand for the group, or family, of products produced by one process. Takt time is used most often at assembly-type processes that serve external customers. Takt time is...