Manufacturing Flow provides a cost effective way for small and mid-size manufacturers to optimize their manufacturing and business systems. The implementation of manufacturing flow strategies can answer the question, “How can we do more with less.”
In order for the manufacturing process to supply products to distribution channels, processes must be flexible to respond to market changes and must accommodate mass customization. There are barriers to this process, including long set-ups and/or changeovers, unreliable manufacturing, poorly designed systems, cumbersome paperwork, and problems in transportation and logistics.
Whether a company wants to improve one area or achieve entire operational improvement, manufacturing flow strategies can provide optimal rewards. Process Value Management provides a synchronized flow of product achieved with maximum speed, flexibility, and distance. The keys to PVM are to develop a common understanding throughout the organization, and effectively change the traditional mindset toward a new culture of speed, agility, simplicity, and velocity of product flow and focus on major problems utilizing an 80-20 approach (where 80% of the desired results come from 20% of the improvement).