Design and Analysis of Experiments
Design and Analysis of Experiments
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The scope of this work is the complete re-organization of production flow according to the Lean Thinking philosophy for the industrial applications. The complete re-organization implementation of material flow management has been performed through the supermarket sizing for which the logic of the reintegration kanban has been adopted. Based upon the above considerations, a supermarket design activity was kicked off, taking advantage of the cooperation of Naples University and Six Sigma Department of Whirlpool Europe Naples Factory. The model of the Naples production Factory was fully developed in Arena SW environment. The model was developed having broadly discussed with Subject Matter Experts, Supervisors and Operators, in order to better reproduce the real process working nowadays. Following up the OpEx approach, based upon the ideas of Critical Thinking, Sequential Learning, Inference Space and Degree of Belief of the applicability of a specified process solution, we directed our investigation towards 3 main objectives: finding out the suitable size of the supermarket that could better serve the PULL production with all the relevant constraints of the current Factory available areas, validate the model that should represent the dynamics of the daily production, find out clues and indications about potential production issues, increasing the relevant level of knowledge and then create potential countermeasures, where the findings got from the investigation process match with engineering knowledge.