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One-Piece Flow
Flow

One-Piece Flow

一個流しJapanese

Producing and moving one unit at a time through all steps, without WIP between them.

Examples

  1. 01An assembly cell passes each unit hand to hand through 4 stations.
  2. 02Lead time drops from 3 days to 40 minutes after switching from batches to single units.
  3. 03A defect is detected at the next station immediately instead of after 200 parts.

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