Lean Supply Chain Management Essentials

98 Lean suppLy ChaIn ManageMent essentIaLs

offload the periodic work to someone else. Periodic work can be defined as labor time

that is spent on tasks that are not directly involved with making each piece, but take

place on a predictable, periodic basis (delivery of material, quality checks, loading/

unloading hoppers, etc.). So how does periodic time figure into this? Obviously, every

so often, the board needs to be erased. However, this has no bearing on the task at

hand and is for informational use only. Even better would be to remove the need to

erase the board by the worker or only have to do it once a day. e most common

solution is to a