One of the wastes inherent in manufacturing operations is the excess motion of employees. In a typical manufacturing operation, we often find people walking around the plant. Recently, I was working in an assembly plant. It initially struck me that many employees were supposed to be assembling products, yet they were actually somewhere else. When I asked about this, I was told that the employees were getting materials; looking for work instructions; searching for tools; walking to first-piece inspection; or walking to the supply cabinets.
Excess motion is relatively easy to remedy by employing point-of-use-storage techniques. So what should be stored at the point of use? In short, everything possible, including tools, supplies, inventory, work instructions, reference material and samples, and test and inspection equipment. Let's examine each to determine the benefits and practicality of point-of-use-storage.
One of the wastes inherent in manufacturing operations is the excess motion of employees. In a typical manufacturing operation, we often find people walking around the plant. Recently, I was working in an assembly plant. It initially struck me that many employees were supposed to be assembling products, yet they were actually somewhere else. When I asked about this, I was told that the employees were getting materials; looking for work instructions; searching for tools; walking to first-piece inspection; or walking to the supply cabinets. Excess motion is relatively easy to remedy by employing point-of-use-storage techniques. So what should be stored at the point of use? In short, everything possible, including tools, supplies, inventory, work instructions, reference material and samples, and test and inspection equipment. Let's examine each to determine the benefits and practicality of point-of-use-storage.
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