Homework 1 - HEINJUNKA
1. Identify the system constraints.
2. Decide how to exploit the system's constraints.
3. Subordinate everything else to the above decision.
4. Elevate the system's constraints.
5. If in the previous steps, a constraint has been broken, return to Step 1, but do not allow inertia to cause a system's constraint.
Alex's observations as a result of the hiking experience can be summarized as follows:
1. Final throughput is measured by the rate of the last and slowest operation in the sequence.
2. Inventory is equal to the length between the leader and the backdoor, which should be minimized.
3. Operational expense is roughly measured by the energy expended, which must be conserved.
4. Some resources need to have more capacity than others, especially towards the end of the operating sequence.
Homework 2 - Supermarket
"l just need to stop at the grocery store to grab a few things."That's what you said on the cell phone almost an hour ago, yet here you stand, stocked shopping cart before you, waiting in the checkout line and quieting your pangs of hunger with salt-and-vinegar potato chips.
"Two-thirds of what we buy in the supermarket we had no intention of buying," says consumer expert Paco Underhill, author of Why We Buy: The Science of Shopping. Supermarkets not only rely on such behavior; they encourage it. Every aspect of a store's layout - from the produce display near the entrance to the diary case in the back to the candy at the register - is designed to stimulate shopping serendipity. To explain how store geography influences your spending, we enlisted a team of merchandising experts to map out a typical supermarket, identifying the booby traps to help you emerge with exactly what you need and want, and not a single potato chips more.
Draw a Supermarket Layout, which optimizes the customer's experience.
Homework 3 -
Create a PowerPoint illustrating a real life poor 5S story from your own life.
Slide 1 - Picture of Opportunity
Slide 2 - Sort, discuss what is not needed?
Slide 3 - Set in Order, discuss what could/should be done?
Slide 4 - Shine, how can cleaning help?
Slide 5 - Standardization, what could be implemented?
Slide 6 - Sustained, how could the changes be Sustained?
Homework 4 - TIMWOOD
Anywhere on campus, observe a campus service. Identify and discuss on one page (typed and double spaced) the TIMWOOD waste's you see.
Assignment Files -
https://www.dropbox.com/s/zhmzfe65cbcmycf/Assignment%20File.rar?dl=0