by Tim Floyd | Mar 3, 2019 | Material Flow
You can hear the health, safety, and environment (HSE) team from the next room – flow? What does flow have to do with me? Maybe more than you realize. HSE has a big job to do. The health and safety of operations personnel during normal production operation is...
by Tim Floyd | Dec 1, 2018 | Material Flow
The best way to understand engineered material flow is to consider the opposite. Randomly moving stuff, expedited! is one we encounter often. What is engineered material flow? A correctly designed material flow system is dynamic, interactive, and predictable. Dynamic...
by Tim Floyd | Nov 28, 2018 | Flow Racks
Flow racks are critical equipment to a healthy material flow system. A previous blog highlighted uses for flow racks and how they could be used to improve material flow, so now is the time to get into the detail of how they should be designed to work effectively. This...
by Tim Floyd | Nov 10, 2018 | Workstations
When I walk into your plant, the attitude of the people and their interaction with their work environment is a quick indicator of your company’s attitude. Too often there are frustrated people struggling in a poorly designed environment with equipment poorly suited to...
by Tim Floyd | Nov 6, 2018 | Lean Implementation
There is an enjoyable Netflix documentary called “Chef’s Table”, and I had a chance to catch a few episodes this weekend. The show provides great insight into the working patterns of amazing chefs along with the context of their pursuit of the profession. There’s not...
