Running Lean and Nonstop

Real-time analytics keep this manufacturing and co-packing plant efficient

Tue, 09/11/2012 - 10:37

At creative werks (cw), a manufacturing and co-packing business in Illinois, production is nonstop. Lines run 24/7 and data constantly accumulate. Accuracy and timeliness are crucial, but without an automated quality control system, the quality team relied on manual auditing for weight checking, consumption reporting and product quality. Sometimes an entire shift passed before data were input into the enterprise resource planning (ERP) system.

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Submitted by rderoeck on Thu, 09/13/2012 - 12:10

Unless your software and your people learn how to separate "Common Causes" from "Special Causes" and have a good understanding of how to interprent and properly react to those two flavors of variation you may be doing more harm than good by "reacting" quicker to whatever real or imaginary problems exist. To paraphase Dr. Deming: Stop tampering with stable processes.

Read Wheeler, learn about variation and then get tools/software to run your business.

Rich D. 

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