Evaluating Capacity

Read this article. It highlights the Toyota Production System as a process set up to understand its potential capacity, minimize its product throughput, and reduce cycle time. Analyze the Traditional Operational Availability Model for areas that could produce the greatest bottleneck.

Example: Implementation of New Operational Availability Model into Toyota USA

We have applied for new operational availability model into Toyota in U.S.A. (Toyota USA) with a 4 step system as shown in Fig. 5.


Figure 5. Model to link impact of multiple Steps

Inherited Impact of Step 2=\frac{\text { ST2 }}{\text { ST2+WT2+ET2 }} \times \frac{S T 3}{S T 3+W T 3+E T 3} \times S T 4

Where ST2 is Short time to Step 2 from previous steps.

WT2 is work delay at Step 2

ET2 is equipment downtime at Step 2

ST2 is Short time to Step 3 from Step 2

Introduced Impact of Station 2=\frac{W T 2+E T 2}{S T 2+W T 2+E T 2} \times \frac{W T 3+E T 3}{S T 3+W T 3+E T 3} \times S T 4

Inherited Impact of Step 1= \frac{S T 1}{S T 1+W T 1+E T 1} \times \frac{S T 2}{S T 2+W T 2+E T 2} \times \frac{S T 3}{S T 3+W T 3+E T 3} \times S T 4

Where S T 1 is Short time to Step 1 from previous steps.

W T 1 is work delay at Step 1

E T 1 is equipment downtime at Step 1

S T 1 is Short time to Step 2 from Step 1

Introduced Impact of Station 1=\frac{W T 1+E T 1}{S T 1+W T 1+E T 1} \times \frac{S T 2}{S T 2+W T 2+E T 2} \times \frac{S T 3}{S T 3+W T 3+E T 3} \times S T 4

E S=\frac{\frac{\frac{E T 1}{S T 1+W T 1+E T 1} \times S T 2+E T 2}{S T 2+W T 2+E T 2} \times S T 3+E T 3}{S T 3+W T 3+E T 3} \times S T 4+E T 4

E s is the overall equipment impact to the system shown in Fig.5.

E O A=\frac{\text { Production Time-Es }}{\text { Production Time }} \times 100 \%

E O A is the Equipment \mathrm{OA} of the overall system shown in Fig.5.

W O A=\frac{\text { Production Time-Ws }}{\text { Production Time }} \times 100 \%

WOA is the Work Delay OA of the overall system shown in Fig.5.