Adapting lean manufacturing for a high-mix environment using flow path management
by Invistics Corp.
Since the 1970s, manufacturers have sought to attain the benefits of the Toyota model of lean manufacturing. Yet the techniques employed by Toyota have proven elusive or even unattainable to many companies because lean manufacturing is not well suited to high-mix environments, with thousands of products, dozens of work centers and significantly more process and demand variability. This white paper by Invistics Corp. describes how to improve manufacturing performance in a high-mix environment using lean manufacturing techniques. It concentrates on how high-mix environments are different from high-volume environments, and therefore require extensions to traditional lean manufacturing techniques via flow path management.
| Published: | 2004 |
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| Length: | 11 pages |
| Type: | White paper |
| Language: | English |
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