Process Village
Flow
Process Village
Layout that groups similar machines by function, often creating transport, queues and long lead times compared with flow cells.
Examples
- 01In the process village, all lathes stand in one hall and all grinders in another, so parts travel 600 m through the plant.
- 02Walking the process village shows baskets waiting in front of every machine group, a delay no average figure reveals.
- 03Moving one product family out of the process village into a cell cuts lead time from 9 days to 2.