Lean Manufacturing One Piece Flow

http://www.LeanManufacturingCoaching.com An animation showing the difference between "Batch and Queue" and "One Piece Flow"

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Education

Tags:

• lean
• manufacturing
• continuous
• flow
• one
• piece
• batch
• and
• queue

[hollandturbine]

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.

[qumdh1]

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.

[hollandturbine]

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.

[stevewholbo]

Very good, it helps for my project.

Thank you!!!!