Lesson 3: Application & Practice
About This Lesson
See flow transformation in action through a case study and practice identifying flow disruptions.
See It In Action
2 minClick on examples of queues and WIP accumulation you can identify in this job shop scene.
Find at least 4 locations where work is waiting.
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Flow Disruptions
Identify the primary cause of poor flow in each scenario.
Jobs travel back and forth across the shop, visiting the CNC area three separate times during processing.
We run 50-piece batches because "setup takes too long to run smaller lots."
The shop floor is so congested with WIP carts that material handlers struggle to move jobs between operations.
A job sits for 5 days waiting its turn at milling because there are 12 jobs ahead of it in queue.
Parts are inspected in batches of 25 at end-of-line, creating a bottleneck and hiding defects.
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