Schedule Adherence: Fix the Rules Before Blaming the Plan
Schedule adherence becomes useful when the business agrees which schedule is being measured, when it is fixed, and how changes are recorded.
Category: Production Flow
EPEI Production Wheels: When a Repeating Schedule Helps
An EPEI production wheel creates a repeating opportunity to run the products assigned to a process.
SMED Starts Before the Machine Stops
SMED-based improvement begins by understanding the full changeover and separating preparation from work that requires stopped equipment.
Find the Production Bottleneck Before Speeding Up the Line
A production bottleneck limits the system’s ability to deliver good output.