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05/14/2012 03:01 PM
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Hi all,
I have a project to improve the process to deliver uniforms to the company employees
How can i be sure that the process has the capability and availability to deliver 5000 uniforms por month?
I was thinking about defining the takt time first
Available time: [30 days] x [8hr/day] x [60min]= 14400 min
Demand: 5000 uniforms
Takt time: 2.88 min/uniform
What do you think?
Is this a good way to start defining the improvements needed?
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06/07/2012 12:16 PM
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Hi Juan
It works if you deliver them to each working employee throughout the day, but generally uniforms are delivered at specific intervals like the start or end of a shift. Generally in gets unproductive to give them clean uniforms in a place were they can get dirty again before they even put them on.
Start by defining how and when they currently get delivered, and look for an easier way to do it with less effort. Most North American plant use uniform supply companies and they deliver and pick up the dirty ones on specific days. The clean ones are marked and placed on racks so each employees uniforms are beside each other and located in an alphabetic order.
If you are handling everything internally you need to start by defining the current process for handling uniform cleaning and look at how it can be streamlined in total, that will give you the limitations for handling final delivery as well.
Good Luck
Robert Drescher
ELSE Inc.
Edited: 06/07/2012 at 12:16 PM by Lean Moderator
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