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Air Conditioning Paper

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In our productivity class, we were told to write an article on the Air Conditioning Vents report we were told to read. The report talks about making these vents, and shows diagrams of the assembly-line and the times. The article mentions that the production speed is not where it should be, and the customer has had to stop production. The article talks about Waste Categories. Some of the wastes mention din the article are Overtime, Inventory at each station, 15 People required to run the assembly line (this is wasteful to have too many employees), and they cant meet customer demand sometimes. In our class, we learned about Push. This AC Vent assemvly line is an example of push, because of the directions the arrows are shown on the chart. We also learned about Pull …show more content…

This data is shown in the chart called Cycle Time. This chart shows the amount of seconds it takes at each station for the work to get done. In our MCEN 2352 class we talked about Workstations when we did our Airplane simulation. This chart is an example of workstations and workstation balancing. Another issues with the AC vent assembly line is the long time it takes for the operators to go get more parts. This is one of the 7 Wastes, which is a Time waste. (Because the operator is wasting time, and not doing productivr work while they are going to get more parts). Every time the opartor goes to get parts, it takes him 10 minutes. This happens every two hours. That means that every day, in a regular 8 hour shift, there is 40 minutes wasted. They should buy bigger bins so that they only have to fill up the bins once per day. This would cut down on the waste of Overtime. Another of the Observations, number 7, talks about Unecessary stages are added, which adds time and space. These are also wastes. To improve the process, they should get rid of the extra stages. This would lead to an increase in

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