Implementing Manufacturing and Materials Management: From Empty Plant to Costed Work Order · Module 10 · Work Definitions
Validating against the shop floor
Lesson 102 of 188 · 3 min
The work definition you built from the process document is wrong. To be precise about that claim: not badly wrong. Wrong in three or four small ways — each of which will produce a support ticket. What is typically wrong. Operations that were combined or split years ago and never documented. A consumable nobody put on the BOM. Setup time that varies by what ran previously — which the document records as one number and the operator knows as three. An inspection step that happens but is not in the route. And a component actually fitted at a different operation than the drawing says. None of those is anybody's fault. Documents describe processes at a moment; processes keep moving. The validation method is deliberately physical. Print the work definition. Take it to the line. Walk it with an operator and the supervisor. And ask "show me", not "is this right".…
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In this module: Module 10 · Work Definitions
- 1The manufacturing model decisionFree preview
- 2What a work definition contains
- 3Work definition names and versions
- 4Building operations
- 5Operation items and supply types
- 6Operation resources
- 7Validating against the shop floor
- 8Outside processing
- 9Loading work definitions in bulk
- 10Costing implications
- 11What breaks
- 12Lab: build the route the plant actually runs