Chapter 15 Plant Types, Control Point Theory, and Volts Concepts
Types of Plant Configurations
When you are considering implementing improvement efforts, such as things like Drum-Buffer-Rope, into your system, it is important to know what type of plant configuration you might be dealing with. In this section, we will discuss the various plant layouts that exist in today’s manufacturing companies. This section was taken from my book with Bruce Nelson, [1] Epiphanized – A Novel on Unifying Theory of Constraints, Lean, and Six Sigma.
Principally, there are four different types of plant configurations that can exist. Because the shape of each type of configuration resembles a letter in the alphabet, they are commonly ...
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