Lean Manufacturing in a Small Shop
Author: SME
Format: DVD
Length: 27 minutes
Witness how lean manufacturing helped Peterson Pacific Corporation reduce the time it takes to manufacture new machines. You'll see how the paint booth location was changed to make a more efficient layout, and what they did to add flow to their assembly process. In the beginning, Peterson Pacific Corporation greatly underestimated the amount of energy needed to sustain their improvements. Interviews with key managers and supervisors illuminate how they selected the areas of the business to improve first, and the problems that slowed down their initial application of lean.
As a result of the team effort to apply lean at Peterson Pacific, they have seen the following results in the first two years:
- Lean-time delivery improved by 46%
- Overall inventory has been reduced by 85%
- Manufacturig defects have been reduced by 58%
- Production capacity has improved by 50%
- Space utilization has improved by 65%