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pritishh - 2011
Hi all,
I am an Industrial engineer and recently graduated. I work in a company that manufactures farm machinery equipments like Grain carts, Grain Drills, and other seed handling equipments. Now i am the only industrial engineer in my company so i get a very little or u can say no help or guidance in my field. I started off with many lean projects like Kaizen, VSM, simulation etc, but were unsuccessful and left incomplete since my company wanted me to concentrate on quality issues first. But now again i want to complete those projects and i want to start with VSM. I have read various articles, books and publications on VSM and have the theoretical knowledge but lack the implementation part of it. I dont understand where to start from. The reason is because our company has wide variety of products and each product have different assemblies which in futher has different subassemblies. Like the example of Grain drills you have the big frames, gear box drives, fertilizer drives, weldments, grain boxes, press wheels, opener assemblies etc which has to get assembled to form 1 single product. And we do all the activities right from FAbrication, Welding, painting and assembling.
So my question is what should be my product family, the whole drill or its sub-assemblies, and should i do an integrated VSM to incorporate all the station or individual VSM station to station.
I would really be thankful if someone could help me in this. Thank you for your time and consideration.
I am an Industrial engineer and recently graduated. I work in a company that manufactures farm machinery equipments like Grain carts, Grain Drills, and other seed handling equipments. Now i am the only industrial engineer in my company so i get a very little or u can say no help or guidance in my field. I started off with many lean projects like Kaizen, VSM, simulation etc, but were unsuccessful and left incomplete since my company wanted me to concentrate on quality issues first. But now again i want to complete those projects and i want to start with VSM. I have read various articles, books and publications on VSM and have the theoretical knowledge but lack the implementation part of it. I dont understand where to start from. The reason is because our company has wide variety of products and each product have different assemblies which in futher has different subassemblies. Like the example of Grain drills you have the big frames, gear box drives, fertilizer drives, weldments, grain boxes, press wheels, opener assemblies etc which has to get assembled to form 1 single product. And we do all the activities right from FAbrication, Welding, painting and assembling.
So my question is what should be my product family, the whole drill or its sub-assemblies, and should i do an integrated VSM to incorporate all the station or individual VSM station to station.
I would really be thankful if someone could help me in this. Thank you for your time and consideration.