by Tim Floyd | Jun 2, 2017 | Website Blog
Every warehouse, manufacturing plant, production facility, and logistics operation – no matter where they are or what they do – has to manage the same 5 kinds of material and information flow. Your success will be determined by how well you design and integrate these...
by Tim Floyd | May 12, 2017 | Website Blog
There are three choices to plan your material flow system: 1. Fixed time, variable quantity 2. Variable time, fixed quantity: 3. Chaos Any of the choices are valid depending on the context they are used in, and you’ll always have some element of each. The important...
by Tim Floyd | Apr 19, 2017 | Website Blog
I see different production and office environments every week, and all of them represent opportunities for improvement. A common theme is the subject of “Where to start?” If we split any work area up into two oversimplified categories you have 1. The work being...
by Tim Floyd | Mar 21, 2017 | Website Blog
Most people familiar with the concept of lean manufacturing and standard production systems have heard of the seven wastes. If you haven’t, you’re probably going to skip this post and move on. If you have, there is an important point you may not have considered. There...
