Basics on Takt and Flow: Insights from Practice

Peter Bebersdorf and Arnd Huchzermeier
Additional contact information
Peter Bebersdorf: AGCO, Fendt
Arnd Huchzermeier: WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management

Chapter 2 in Variable Takt Principle, 2022, pp 23-67 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Everything should flow—evenly, transparently, and plannable. Nothing is more significant for the effective and efficient manufacture of products than the generation of a continuous flow of material, information, and work. In a customer-centric company with its diverse and varied products, this is a real challenge! In a fixed takt, a continuous flow of variant-rich products or even entire product portfolios is not possible. In the first sections of this chapter, we will demonstrate the importance of a continuous flow for production, in particular for assembly. We lay the foundation for being able to explain the relevance and capabilities of variable takt in the context of continuous-flow production later in this book. To do this, we combine theories of Lean Management with current scientific findings on flow production and supplement this with practical experience from the everyday life of a production manager. In doing so, we focus on balancing of an assembly line as it takes place in practice. We extend the classification of mixed-model assembly by three sub-types and separate product variance from option variance. Finally, we illustrate the occurrence of takt and model-mix losses, which we summarize as utilization losses. We show the first approaches to reduce these losses and will elaborate on them in the next chapters.

Date: 2022
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:spr:mgmchp:978-3-030-87170-3_2

Ordering information: This item can be ordered from
http://www.springer.com/9783030871703

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-87170-3_2

Access Statistics for this chapter

More chapters in Management for Professionals from Springer
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Sonal Shukla () and Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing ().