Inventory reduction - WIP reduction
Introduction
On the chart above you can see the WIP reduction result for one of our
mfg. lines. We have reduced 6x times within a few days and since that time we are keeping
very low WIP. Do you want to know how we achieved? Read this section
Maybe there is not manufacturing company without WIP reduction
activities or even WIP reduction projects. The reduction of work in process seems to be
very popular tool for improving company overall performance in order to cut the
manufacturing leadtimes, increase flexibility, reduce cost and improve quality. I know
there are many articles related to WIP inventory reduction. But almost all are written by
consultants :)
There are also well known tools to reduce inventory. The most popular are kanban and DBR
by Goldratt.
I am running WIP reduction activity in our company and I would like to summarize my
experience, trials and fails, and of course results, and to document the way how we
achieved the WIP reduction to reduce WIP to with help of many colleagues from several
departments.
I think it might be usefull for you to read about our way. Lets go through following
rules.
If you have any comment or question, let me know.
WIP reduction rules
| If you want to donate click this |
|
