This is how you let materials flow

"Lean material handling manual for professionals in the field of operations, production planning and engineering"

Practical workbook about material delivery based on a real-life case, with plenty of illustrations, diagrams and overviews. In the earlier workbook Creating Continuous Flow you learn to create flow within a work cell and in Creating a Leveled Pull System you learn how to connect those flow cells through pull. Making Materials Flow covers the practical techniques to make a pull system work. So think of this workbook as a companion to Making a Leveled Pull System.

You learn:

• managing all aspects of material management with a Plan For Every Part (PFEP)
• six rules for kanban
• two types of internal material supply routes (linked and decoupled) and the implications for utilisation and inventories
• standardisation of material supply routes
• two types of supply

The apparent simplicity of this book is deceptive. Again, it is sometimes thought that this would only work for predictable, simple, discrete assemblies with a limited number of parts, but not for more extensive situations. Toyota proves otherwise!

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