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Showing 1 to 20 of 32 for “"Standard Work"”.
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Identifying internal best practices and propagating standard work
Standard work is commonly used in manufacturing and assembly operations to minimize process variation by providing detailed instruction to operators. Internal best practices are processes within the firm that achieve a more beneficial result when compared to alternative existing methods. Standard …
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Lean engineering standard work In the product development process
… to use an adapted version of ESW (Engineering Standard Work) to develop an assessment that enables identification of opportunity areas for the implementation of ESW in an existing Product Development Organization, by integrating the consistency and quality of the work performed by the …
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Application of flexible labor and standard work in fulfillment center produce operations
… the applicability of flexible labor and standard work in increasing labor productivity and improving quality in fulfillment center produce operations. Three hypotheses were tested: (1) labor productivity would be increased by implementing a flexible labor staffing model and shift-by-shift …
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Reducing reworkable discrepancies through standard work for writing inspection instructions and data distribution
… that can be corrected on the line are called reworkable discrepancies. Because hundreds of reworkable discrepancies can occur on each aircraft it is a huge opportunity for improvement and cost reduction. It would be impossible to analyze each one that occurs on the line. However, last year at X …
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Rediseño del proceso de retención de clientes basado en standard work para reducir el churn en una empresa de telecomunicaciones
… de telecomunicaciones (internet fijo) usando Standard Work como herramienta central. El diagnóstico evidenció alta variabilidad operativa: datos del cliente dispersos, procesos manuales y criterios no homologados para otorgar beneficios. Esto elevaba el churn (pérdida de clientes) y …
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The changing nature of employment relationships and its challenge for health and safety law
… covers the growth of the different forms of non-standard work. Health and safety law developed through a number of socio-economic changes in the UK. It has moved from only covering particular areas and particular classes of workers in the nineteenth century to wider areas of occupational health …
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Design of a Lean Manufacturing System for the Production of Compliant Wind at Sparton Electronics
… Qualitative tools, such as creating stability, standard work, and flow in production are used to control the intangible aspects.</p> <p>To accomplish the goal of increasing production, this thesis proposes a machine and process that incorporate fundamental Lean Manufacturing concepts. The output …
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Root cause analysis of production defects in a foundry using lean tools
… on the implementation of lean principles, standardizing operations in the production line and thereby improving productivity. The study is conducted in a large-scale metal casting company, Atlantis Foundries which manufactures cylinder blocks and gear box castings. At present scrap and …
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Work in South Africa: Analysis of Workdays, Hours, Schedules and the Timing of Work
The concepts of labour supply and work are ultimately about the time people spend doing labour activities. In most developed countries, the rise of the 24-hour and gig economies has altered work structures by replacing traditional nine-to-five jobs and allowing for more flexible working hours …
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Can Flexibility and Productivity Coexist? Analyzing the Adoption of a Four - Day Work Week or a Hybrid Work Policy
The discussion of changing the standard work week of five days to four days has been a concept considered since the 1960’s. The general discourse has concerned the tension between productivity of workers increasing enough that a workplace would lose an extra day of work. This alone is a large …
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Propuesta de mejora para incrementar la eficiencia operativa del proceso de servicio eléctrico en un taller automotriz aplicando herramientas Lean
En los últimos años, el sector automotriz en el Perú ha experimentado un crecimiento sostenido, lo que ha incrementado de manera significativa la demanda de servicios de mantenimiento vehicular. Sin embargo, este crecimiento también ha evidenciado una problemática recurrente en los talleres: los …
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Improving Patient Safety Through Accurate Medication Reconciliation
… medication errors. During my CNL project, I worked with a committee of staff champions and developed a standard work guide for nurses to use in order to effective reconcile patient medications. We used fishbone diagrams, audit tools, surveys and led regular discussions in our huddles in order …
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Improvement in delivery times using lean manufacturing tools in a sme the beverage sector in Peru
… movements by eliminating unnecessary ones using Standard Work, from that were positive indicators for management. For the validation of our proposal, an integrating model of the pilot plans was carried out in order to corroborate the efficiency of the proposed tools using the Arena software. By …
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Operational improvement and mixed model value stream development for gauge production line
… waste. To eliminate operational waste, operator work load was balanced and corresponding standard work procedure for operators and production monitoring technique were developed. The daily production throughput increased by 30% from 10 gauges to 13 gauges. To achieve the daily throughput of 26 …
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A global sourcing strategy for durable tooling
… quality. The sourcing strategy presents a framework for: 1) determining whether to source durable tooling locally, regionally or globally, and 2) for comparing the return (using total cost of ownership) and risk (country/regional) of sourcing alternatives. The primary deliverable of this …
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Modelo de aplicación utilizando lean warehousing para incrementar el nivel de servicio en una empresa de acero
… la técnica Lean Warehousing, aplicando Standard Work para estandarizar los procesos logísticos de salida y Poka Yoke para mejorar la gestión de calidad. Se realizó un estudio de tiempos y un análisis TIS para identificar las causas raíz y diseñar soluciones específicas. La validación se …
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Reducing variations in a highly constrained environment in order to increase production capacity
… isolating each cause of variability and placing standard work around it, such as SOPs. Once isolated and controlled, variations were methodically reduced, and significant capacity was gained. The research results show us that the overall variations were reduced by 26.5%. Due to this: overtime …
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Applications of risk pooling for the optimization of spare parts with stochastic demand within large scale networks
… every day through its Fulfillment Center (FC) network that is powered by miles of material handling equipment (MHE) such as conveyor belts. Unfortunately, this reliance on MHE means that failures could cripple an entire FC. The exceptionally high stock-out cost associated with equipment failure …
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Implementing material and information flow improvements and setup time reduction in automotive gear machining
… be toward a simpler system using kanban with standard-work-in-process. The work of this project resulted in significant improvements, as measured by the facility. In addition, the project provided invaluable lessons for the author which were both technical and people/leadership related.
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