Chapter 12

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How to Schedule the Production Line (Value Stream)

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Introduction

We have now created a number of tools used for inventory flow and control, as well as improved the factory design, creating work cells and laying out the factory for material and product to flow easily through the factory as opposed to moving back and forth across the factory in an inefficient manner. But we still need to schedule the factory more efficiently.

If you go back to your original current state map, remember how all the work centers were scheduled independently ...

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