Chapter 8
Continuous Flow
Introduction
Now we need to create continuous flow on the production floor. Many people believe they already have continuous flow but is it continuous without stopping or is there stored inventory between processes? We will create flow based on Lean principles in this chapter.
Many companies have what is known as process village layouts; a different way to say this is similar machines and processes are grouped together, such as all machining centers together, all lathes together, all sheet metal brakes together, etc. ...
