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.

Conclusions

A new study method of production throughput: new operational availability model is formulated and analyzed. The throughput impact of each step in TPS production line can be identified by analyzing relationships between the so-called manufacturing blockage (Full) and manufacturing starvation (Short) of each step. This leads to a simple rule for throughput analysis. This study will evaluate the overall effectiveness of the production process. These activities optimize the effectiveness of the TPS. This method can be used to study real-time data or the data over a period of time with historical data. It is a useful indicator for throughput performance tracking and improvement. This evaluation model will standardize the operational availability calculation. A case study at Toyota USA is described. This new operational availability model is also expected to contribute to the extension of "Advanced TPS" concept in real manufacturing environment.