Roy Whitaker

takt is the pace of production that it takes to meet the customer’s demand.  It can be calculated by identifying the total amount of time available divided by the customer demand.  The total time available is calculated by the number of hours of an employee minus breaks, lunch, set up time, briefings etc.  The customer demand is given to you by yo…[Read more]

All,
Many thanks for your attempts at humor, but much to your dismay I fully understand takt time and cycle time.  We currently rely on a manual method of capturing this and it is far too easy for them to manipulate this data.  What we are searching for is a productivity board that will measure their efficiency, target, and current rate of our o…[Read more]

We are producing soda and beverage drawers.  We have used the manual process that you describe but that leads to the ability to pencil whip the outcome.  We have some triggers in place to determine if we are on time or not but we have so much WIP in play that it really does not become a problem until we reduce the WIP which is what I am doing.  We…[Read more]