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The document discusses suggested improvements for a system at Sky View Airplane Company, emphasizing gradual change to avoid worker frustration. Four key improvements include moving materials to the point of use, rearranging workstations, enhancing communication among operators, and reducing setup time. These changes aim to help the company achieve its goal of delivering 24 airplanes per day.

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M03S05CourseNotes

The document discusses suggested improvements for a system at Sky View Airplane Company, emphasizing gradual change to avoid worker frustration. Four key improvements include moving materials to the point of use, rearranging workstations, enhancing communication among operators, and reducing setup time. These changes aim to help the company achieve its goal of delivering 24 airplanes per day.

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Module 03- Section 05 – Brainstorming Improvements

All right, let’s cover the improvements. I want suggestions now on how we can improve this system. So anybody.
(Student comments in background very fuzzy
“Bringing the Lego over here” Ok, what do we call that, Bringing the Lego over here. What kind of system is
that?
Student responding in background, muffled
Ok, Call it something, there’s a certain name for that.
Muffled response in background
Yeah, the inventory has to move to point of use.
So bring your inventory to point of use.
Muffled conversation….entire Section

Can we do all of the changes in one day? No, change must be gradual.

Too much change all at once would result in much frustration for the workers in our plant. For this reason,
George suggests that only 4 of the seven improvements are implemented during day 2.

These are,

Course notes, Lean 101, Module 3 Section 5


http://www.lean101.ca
Move material to point of use. Operators will no longer have to go to the stores to replenish their bin. All of the
parts will be placed near the point of use.

Rearrange the layout. Each workstation will now be situated right near the workstation that precedes it.

Open up the communication. Some operators will be allowed to advise each other of defects and suggest
improvements on the fly. In a sense, everybody shares the duties of quality assurance.

Reduce the set up time. Both fixtures will be now be available to measure the lengths of the white and the green
planes. The need for a changeover has been eliminated.

In the next section, we return to our Lego simulation for our second day of work.
It is hoped that these improvements will bring the Sky View Airplane Company closer to their goal of being able to
guarantee their customer deliveries of 24 airplanes per day.

Course notes, Lean 101, Module 3 Section 5


http://www.lean101.ca

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