Making Materials Flow a lean material-handling guide for operations, production-control, and engineering professionals

Questions for Making Materials Flow

The Plan for Every Part (PFEP)
1. What information should you include in the PFEP?
2. How will you maintain the integrity of the PFEP?

Developing a Purchased-Parts Market
3. Where do you locate your purchased-parts market?
4. What is the correct amount of each part to hold in the market, and how much space will be required to store each part?
5. How do you operate your purchased-parts market?

Designing the Delivery Route and the Information Management System
6. How do you convey parts from the purchased-parts market to the production areas?
7. How do your production areas signal the purchased-parts market what to deliver and when?
8. How do you fill the delivery route?

Sustaining and Improving
9. How can you sustain the performance of your lean material-handling system?
10. How can you identify and remove additional waste?

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