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The Product Wheel Handbook

Creating Balanced Flow in High-Mix Process Operations

Paperback Engels 2013 1e druk 9781466554184
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The Product Wheel (PW) design process has practical methods for finding the optimum sequence, minimizing changeover costs, and freeing up useful capacity. So much so, that the DuPont™ Company and Exxon Mobil are just a few companies that have used the product wheel concept to achieve and sustain a competitive advantage.

Breaking down a fairly complex design process into manageable steps, 'The Product Wheel Handbook: Creating Balanced Flow in High-Mix Process Operations' walks readers through the process for designing and implementing the PW technique. It includes a case study taken from actual practice that illustrates the design process and its benefits.

Describing how to apply the product wheel technique to any manufacturing operation, the book:
- Details the steps required to implement product wheels
- Explains why certain traditional manufacturing metrics should be reevaluated so they don’t inhibit product wheel performance
- Defines the cultural foundation necessary for smooth product wheel design and implementation
- Includes a real-world case study and several examples of product wheels being used by successful manufacturing companies—including BG Products, Inc., the DuPont™ Company, the Dow Chemical Company, and Appleton

Many of the steps in wheel design described in this book are not new. What’s new is their application to production planning and scheduling problems, and more importantly, a clear roadmap explaining how and when they should be used in product wheel design.

Supplying you with the tools to reduce the chaos often found in production scheduling, the book outlines a disciplined structure that will allow you to spend less of your time resolving schedule problems. Most importantly, it provides your organization with a stable platform to deal with abnormal events in a less stressful and more logical manner.

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Introduction
Why Product Wheels?
Process Industry Challenges
Product Wheel Basics

The Problem: Production Sequencing, Campaign Sizing, Production Leveling
Challenges Facing Operations Managers—Production Leveling Challenges Facing Operations Managers—Random Sequence or Regular Pattern?
Challenges Facing Operations Managers—Optimum Sequence
Challenges Facing Operations Managers—Optimum Cycle
The Insidious Nature of Changeovers

<B>The Solution—Product Wheels
</B>Product Wheels Defined
Product Wheel Terminology
Simultaneous Operating Modes
Product Wheel Characteristics
Process Improvement Time
Benefits of Product Wheels
Product Wheel Applicability

The Product Wheel Design and Implementation Process
Product Wheel Design
Step 1: Begin with an up-to-date, reasonably accurate value stream map (VSM)
Step 2: Decide where to use wheels to schedule production
Step 3: Analyze product demand volume and variability—identify candidates for make to order
Step 4: Determine the optimum sequence
Step 5: Analyze the factors influencing overall wheel time
Step 6: Determine overall wheel time and wheel frequency for each product
Step 7: Distribute products across the wheel cycles—balance the wheel
Step 8: Plot the wheel cycles
Step 9: Calculate inventory requirements
Step 10: Review with stakeholders
Step 11: Determine who "owns" (allocates) the PIT time
Step 12: Revise the scheduling process
Product Wheel Implementation
Step 13: Develop an implementation plan
Step 14: Develop a contingency plan
Step 15: Get all inventories in balance
Step 16: Put an auditing plan in place
Step 17: Put a plan in place to rebalance the wheel periodically
Kaizen Events
Prerequisites for a Product Wheel

Step 1: Begin with an Up-to-Date, Reasonably Accurate VSM
An Example Process—Sheet Goods Manufacturing
A Value Stream Map
Material Flow—Process Boxes
Process Step Data Boxes
Material Flow Icons
Inventory Data Boxes
Information Flow
Summary
Step 2: Decide Where to Use Wheels to Schedule Production
Criteria for Product Wheel Selection
Analyze the VSM
Forming 1
Bonder 2
Bonder 1
Slitter 1
Summary
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