Enter inventories between steps, process times and throughput to see the real lead time, how much of it adds value and how much cash comes back by leaning the flow, without buying machines.
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Waiting before each step (days, from Little’s Law) and process time (barely visible at this scale).
Factory Physics best case and practical worst case; the dot is the current line and the diamond the proposal.
Cash flow of the improvement: investment in year 0 and annual savings escalated at the rate entered, discounted at the MARR.
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That work-in-process equals throughput times lead time. With 5,900 parts in process and 900 leaving per day, lead time is about 6.6 days, even though each part is worked on for less than 4 minutes.
Yes, as long as throughput holds. If WIP drops below what is needed to feed the bottleneck (near critical WIP), throughput falls and the gain disappears.
Traditional plants are often below 5%. Well implemented cells and continuous flow reach 25% or more.
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