Exercises Factories Presentation 
The Lean Thinker
DECEMBER 14, 2023
A plant manager asked me to build a map of the flows in his factory. With all of that information, I mapped out the factory’s flows. I learned a lot , not only about mapping a process, but about the way this factory functioned, and had pretty compelling evidence that the bottleneck was not what the common knowledge said it was.
The Lean Thinker
AUGUST 31, 2022
Thus, focusing on implementing the tools of TPS (takt time, flow, pull, etc) outside of the immediate response and problem solving context is an exercise which expends energy and gains very little sustainable change. This is independent of whether it is done in a week-long intense event or not.
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The Lean Thinker
JULY 2, 2024
With the justification aside, they next had us go through exercises calculating net present value and ROI for a hypothetical capital investment in tooling – as though a shop floor supervisor would do this at any point in the course of their job. One of them was the Boeing 737 moving line.
Logistics in War
FEBRUARY 22, 2020
Firstly, it recommended conducting realistic wargames and exercises to reflect threats and the capability of the ‘logistics enterprise’ to respond. At present, they aren’t. This is an edited adaption of a presentation given at the Australian Defence Force conference ‘Rapid Force Projection’ in April 2019.
Blog on Log
MAY 2, 2006
A post-9/11 simulation exercise forecast that closing the nation's ports for 12 days would cost the economy roughly $58bn. corporations, shipping companies, and domestic ports, but at factories and facilities at international origins as well. If supply were disrupted at just one major port, what economic problems would a U.S.-wide
Logistics Bureau
JULY 27, 2020
With all movements of produce recorded immutably in a distributed ledger, tracing quality-compromised food or commodities back to the source can be achieved in hours, rather than the days, or even weeks, otherwise required for such an exercise. Faster delivery times to the factory. Big Names are Backing Blockchain.
Logistics Bureau
NOVEMBER 14, 2018
For example, a CTS analysis may show you that customers ordering directly from you at your factory also generate lower costs in transport and inventory costs. Besides optimising the present or fixing the past, CTS reporting and analysis opens the door to what-if scenarios and projections. This sounds like common sense.
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