Chapter 13
Material Management
Raw Material Inventory Management
To achieve continuous flow in the work cells, it is important to have and maintain a robust material delivery and pickup system. A medical device company was very consistent with the completion of their daily production form, which allowed them to quickly identify critical issues that caused the production line to not flow in a continuous manner. You can see by the production form in Table 13.1 that missing and bad parts were a major problem. One company I was working with used ...
