Takt- and Andon watch

A visible and clear Takt is the base for Lean Manufacturing. Binar offers many solutions from very simple single stations to line solutions with Takt. In an unbalanced flow, the Bullwhip effect causes a lot of stress. Also, humans often tends to work fast, carelessly, causing worse quality. To get a high direct run quality and a low scrapping cost, Takt is the right method. The Takt clock shows the pace calculated for each job.

If there is a line flow, stop & go is a very efficient method to increase output without increasing the stress for the operators. All operators finish their assembly simultaneously, pushes the green acknowledge button, and moves forward to the next station. Any disturbance or stop will be visualised and highlighted. A total increase in throughput of 25-30% is very common and in an optimized flow the throughput may be increased by the double.

To reduce waste in a production environment, Andon is a proven method that easily can be implemented. Focus is to keep the operator value adding during assembly. Any disturbance or abnormal situation is taken care of by pushing the Andon button or by pulling an Andon cord. The alarm will be visualised on displays, lamps and even sounded off to raise the attention of the Team Leader or an Andon Coach. The support person will take care of the problem and register a fault code for the disturbance. Binar has the products to make this smooth and easy. With the ten-button box LP220 the fault code will be registered with a push.. Improvement groups may easily read the result for further analysis and to take action for improvements.