Have you also seen those animations about the huge benefit of one piece flow? It's supposedly way better than batch production, the only way to 'do Lean' and a waste if not implemented immediately.
But when you see those animations, where it takes ages for a batch production system to output even its first product while the one piece flow has already finished the whole order, don't you immediately know that it's nonsense?
Don't get me wrong, one piece flow is a good system, just not as overwhelmingly different as those animations make it seem.
A regular factory is full of work in progress (WIP), so the machines are not idling, they're producing all the time. So batch production will produce about the same as one piece flow.
There are advantages though: lower inventory, faster reaction to defects and client demands, less stuff on the floor, and more.
#continuousimprovement #lean #onepiece
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