How to Calculate
Wastage & Rework in Production Processes
‘As Labor Was The
Focus In The Past, Wastage & Rework Will Be The Focus
In The Future!'
By: Paul J. Zepf, P.Eng., CPP
Copyright
© 2002
Published: April 2002
8.5x11
Soft Cover
150
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The
purpose of this book is to present new and revised concepts
and techniques on wastage and rework, which are simple
and practical to apply in improving the design and performance
of production processes. These new approaches have been
tried in numerous industries and have been proven extremely
effective, if applied correctly. Furthermore, concepts
presented in this book should become well understood by
both management and operating staff if significant improvement
or a World Class facility is a target. The need of top
management to understand their production processes is
far more critical then those on the production floor.
This
book is especially applicable to industries in the packaging,
blow molding, injection molding, converting and film or
paper producers.
This
book contains numerous easy to follow worked examples
to demonstrate the practical application of the production
line design, concepts, and techniques. It is sincerely
hoped that the designs, techniques and concepts presented
in this book will be of practical use in your production
environment and will contribute to the efforts of improving
the effectiveness of your process; evaluating machinery
systems; reducing wastage and rework and thereby increasing
your productivity and value to society.
Most
companies will find that the dollar and time losses incurred
in wastage and rework far outplace labor savings through
people reductions. In fact, reducing labor below critical
levels can actually increase wastage and rework. As labor
reduction was the buzzword on the 21st century. In most
automated production processes today chasing labor has
reached the point of being wasted effort and focus. There
are still great opportunities in streamlining administrative
structures as most companies are still excessively top
heavy as well as becoming more inexperienced in the nature
if their business. This inversion of proper good business
practice in and of itself causes excessive wastage and
rework of efforts and results.
Finally,
we will attempt to tidy things up by showing how the concepts
of wastage and rework relate to production line performance
and costs.
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