Chapter 5 Example Process
The Process
To demonstrate the concepts covered in the book, we’ll describe a Blue Lakes salad dressing plant as an example. Blue Lakes employed most of the concepts we will describe at their manufacturing plant in eastern Pennsylvania. They had been facing all of the challenges described below and benefitted significantly from transitioning to a product wheel strategy and by replacing their legacy Excel-based finite scheduling process with a commercially available, professionally supported software product capable of scheduling manufacturing in structured, repetitive patterns. The following describes the scheduling process as it was practiced prior to any changes, with specific improvements ...
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