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• Introducing Flow On Food Machine Production Line Business & Finance
• Did you know that we can offer excellent functions and tools to implement flow? These functions are well hidden (I really don’t know why) and not documented too elaborately. So let me take a shot here to introduce you to that kind of functionality and...  moreDid you know that we can offer excellent functions and tools to implement flow? These functions are well hidden (I really don’t know why) and not documented too elaborately. So let me take a shot here to introduce you to that kind of functionality and maybe you find it useful for the scheduling of your food machine production line. It’s probably taking me a couple of blog posts before I get the entire process together, so here is part 1:
  
  
  Flow is usually desired on production lines which manufacture products in a sequential fashion. There may be feeder lines for components and these, more often than not, make products available for final assembly or, as in process manufacturing, the packaging lines. So, very often you have a value stream that look something like this…
  
  In this example, two feeder lines flow into the main line and the finished product is held in a Kanban super market. As you can see, the processing times at the various work stations are all different, and therefore WiP will...    less
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