Lean Manufacturing Tools

A mass production approach to operations in which large lots (batches) of items are processed and moved  to the next process regardless o...

The location of processing steps for a product immediately adjacent to each other so that parts, documents, etc., can be processed in ver...

Producing and moving one item at a time (or a small and consistent batch of items) through a series of processing steps as continuously a...

A facility that sorts and recombines a variety of inbound items from many suppliers for outbound shipment to many customers, such as asse...

A method of conducting one-piece flow in a cell where machines unload parts automatically so that the operator (or operators) can carry a...

A way to regulate the working relationships between two machines or operations to control overproduction and ensure balanced use of resour...