Kanban Material Management
This course will teach the implementation of a lean pull system for purchased parts that ensures that purchased parts are delivered to manufacturing cells efficiently and timely. Attendees will learn how to develop and use a system for planning parts, how to setup purchased parts supermarkets, how to implement kanban, and how to effectively deliver purchased parts to manufacturing cells Using a case example, participants will make calculations and design a system for handling purchased parts.
- Lower inventory and increased productivity
- Elimination of operator time retrieving/finding parts
- Higher plant inventory turns
- Fewer inventories
- Increased safety
- Reducing waste &Scrape
- Reducing PPM
- Reducing material Damage
- Material and product control.
- Improving work place Organization
- Improving lead time deliver
- Lean Overview/Kanban Systems
- origins of kanban systems
- Benefits
- Kanban types
- Kanban signals
- Kanban visual board
- Material movement within a Facility
- When and where to begin implementation
- Purchased Parts Market
- Sizing/Storage Requirements
- Balancing the process
- Setting/Specifying/Managing Inventory Levels
- Pull Signals
- Hijunka Box
- Part Movement/Material Handling
- Exercise
- Standardized Work
- Calculating Kanban
- Exercise
A Three-days session
-This course is designed for managers & supervisors, supply chain managers & planners, process improvement specialists, change managers, process engineers, quality manager & production engineers.