Multi-Product Line Design Process Map
Resources are expensive! Resources include your investment in people, machines, workstations, and inventory. Lean requires that only the minimum amount or resources are committed to the production of the customer demand.
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Kanban Sizing Process Map & Summary Report
A sophisticated interactive spreadsheet program used to design your two-bin material kanban system. It calculates the inventory quantity to be placed in each of your kanban containers for the selected pull chain based on the replenishment times you choose.
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Multi-Card Kanban Calculator
Not every resource in a Lean factory can be dedicated to the Lean manufacturing line. Because of purchase cost, size, or environmental factors, some resources just cannot be relocated. Therefore, these resources are typically “shared” with other manufacturing locations within the Lean manufacturing production area.
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Daily Staffing Planner
A Lean manufacturing line is designed with the capacity to meet a projected future demand. Until sales volume equals the projected future demand, your Lean line has excess capacity.
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Volume at Capacity Planner
Determining the volume at capacity of a Lean line is one of the most difficult numbers to establish when designing a Lean operating system. It is used to establish the capacity of the Lean manufacturing line and determines the number of resources required to operate your designed line.
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Input/Output Rate with Linearity Tracking
Linearity is one of the preferred measurements for monitoring the effectivity of your Lean manufacturing line. Measured over time, the linearity measurement records how production overage and shortages affect the linear production of your Lean line.
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Implementation Guide and Project Tracking Chart
Whenever Mfg. Matters begins an engagement at a client site, it uses this 6-step milestone chart as a guideline for completing the steps of a Lean business transformation.
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Line Design Templates
Compilation of templates to be used to design a lean manufacturing line.
Included templates: Standard Work Definition (SWD), Sequencing Board, Flow Rate Board and Strategic Business Assessment Template.
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