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line already had one-piece flow. Consequently, their
first-piece lead time and lot lead time were relatively
“Everyone is somewhere
good. To supply the line, they used a two-container
on the journey to become Lean; kanban system for the small items, which represented
” 75 percent of all parts. The large parts were delivered
no one has yet arrived.
Wilson on a scheduled route by the materials handlers. In
addition, they obviously had multiskilled workers,
which made this conversion possible. All of this helped as we embarked on an effort to
improve “labor efficiency.”