Current State
Following the VSM and planning workshops it was decided to run a line balance activity on line 11 as a pilot. Line 11 fell within the green stream planning.
Typical line parameters and results :-
Number of operators per shift = 8
Target machine packs per minute = 46
Aver tonnage per week packed = 55
Actual number of packs per minutes achieved prior to the workshop was calculated at 17.1
Improvement
Completed Activity
- Calculated the TAKT time. To meet the customer demand within the available time the line speed had to run at 26 packs per minute.
- Ran a trail at 26 packs per minute and observed further areas for improvement (7 production wastes)
- Calculated the amount of operators required to meet the demand at 26 packs per minute
- Developed a simple computer based program to calculate optimised line standard depending on manufactured SKu
- Introduced line standards for each SKu.
- Methodology rolled out onto lines 12 and 13.
Business Benefit
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