If you constantly have a need to reconfigure machinery for different jobs then one piece flow ties up your machinery and batch and queue works better, if you always make the same product on a machine that is set up for one job only, then one piece flow works better.
It depends on what you mean when you say "reconfigure". If you mean setting up a machine to run a different part, you're actually incorrect when it comes to most practical factory applications. That's where other lean tools like SMED assist in reducing setup times, making the changeovers less important.
I was not talking about set up times, just that you have dedicated a machine to a task that requires it to wait on other machines to feed it one part at a time when it could be doing something else.
If you constantly have a need to reconfigure machinery for different jobs then one piece flow ties up your machinery and batch and queue works better, if you always make the same product on a machine that is set up for one job only, then one piece flow works better.
hollandturbine 3 years ago
It depends on what you mean when you say "reconfigure". If you mean setting up a machine to run a different part, you're actually incorrect when it comes to most practical factory applications. That's where other lean tools like SMED assist in reducing setup times, making the changeovers less important.
qumdh1 3 years ago
I was not talking about set up times, just that you have dedicated a machine to a task that requires it to wait on other machines to feed it one part at a time when it could be doing something else.
hollandturbine 3 years ago
Very good, it helps for my project.
Thank you!!!!
stevewholbo 3 years ago