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Hi All,
I read a lot about cellular manufacturing, definitions, limitations, advantages etc. I am junior IE in the consumer repair centre. We have 4 separate lines, on each slightly different product – 1500 units per day/line. Our lines are 200’ long and our process has 14 process steps (operations). I was asked by my boss look into the advantages of changing our layout (process) into cells. But I somehow cannot see the advantage. Does someone has experience with changing non-manufacturing but repair/service production to cellular, when 80% of operations are testing, where machine (PC) time is equal to manual time?
Sorry for the long sentences, hopefully you’ll understand.
Tom
I read a lot about cellular manufacturing, definitions, limitations, advantages etc. I am junior IE in the consumer repair centre. We have 4 separate lines, on each slightly different product – 1500 units per day/line. Our lines are 200’ long and our process has 14 process steps (operations). I was asked by my boss look into the advantages of changing our layout (process) into cells. But I somehow cannot see the advantage. Does someone has experience with changing non-manufacturing but repair/service production to cellular, when 80% of operations are testing, where machine (PC) time is equal to manual time?
Sorry for the long sentences, hopefully you’ll understand.
Tom