Chapter 24 Production Stability
For product wheels or any scheduling strategy to be practical, the manufacturing process must be stable and capable. Without a reasonable degree of operating stability, it is foolish to expect that any schedule could be regularly and reliability followed.
The relationship between production stability and scheduling is a two-way street. There are things a repeatable scheduling strategy can do to enhance operating stability and things that stability can do to make following the schedule much more likely.
The most frequent causes of operating instability are (in no particular order, but numbered for ease of reference):
- Personnel call-outs due to illness
- Lack of raw materials
- Yield ...
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