How to Measure Cycle Time and Conduct Heijunka (Production Leveling)【Excel Tool】

When you're doing a process improvement, it's essential to know and analyze the current situation numerically. By doing so, you can understand which process step is a bottleneck or has high variations and improve the situation. That's Production Leveling and Heijunka in Japanese. In the manufacturing industry, they measure and calculate Cycle Time. Cycle Time is the amount of process time per unit to make a product or to do a unit of something. In service operations, it may be difficult to measure Cycle Time. This video introduces how to measure Cycle Time for operations - even service operations - by using an Excel tool. This Excel tool automatically shows where the bottleneck and the high variation steps are so that it provides data for your Production Leveling (Heijunka). Please optimize your processes with this tool and be pleasantly surprised at how easy it is to do.
(Process Improvement Methodology for Service Operations, PMP, Project Management, Lean Six Sigma Japan: Episode 31)

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